Over the past several weeks there have been plenty of violations of the ceasefire, everyone agrees there is need to stop hostilities so to allow the Algerian talks to begin in an environment that is conducive.

Mongi Hamdi

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I want to reiterate that these attacks will not impede the determination of the United Nations to support the Malian people and the peace process, including through assisting the implementation of the Agreement on Peace and Reconciliation in Mali.

I think this attack has been perpetrated by negative forces, terrorists, who do not want to see peace in Mali.

Other elements will be negotiated, what degree they will give them identity, to what degree will they allow them to use their own language, their own schools, their own security arrangements, their own implementation of regional projects, all of these will be negotiated.

We are in the last stage of these negotiations, it is challenging, but not impossible. It all depends how eager the protagonists are here in Algiers. I would say several weeks.