Meeting of the crisis platform on Mali (update)

(BRUSSELS2) The "crisis platform" will meet on Monday (14 January) afternoon in the premises of the European diplomatic service (EEAS) in Brussels. " We are monitoring the situation very closely said Catherine Ashton's spokesperson during the daily briefing. with the press. " All the European services concerned by the Malian crisis should be there " he added. Not only the military but also those in charge of development (DG DevCo) or humanitarian aid (DG Echo). It is Agostino Miozzo, the director of crisis prevention, who should lead the meeting, with Pierre Vimont the director of the SEAE. The objective is to tour the services concerned and see how the European response can be adapted. Various meetings were also held this weekend on the EUTM Mali mission (read on the Club).

Further meetings are scheduled. The High Representative, C. Ashton, is due to meet today with Laurent Fabius, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. “Conversations” are also taking place at the international level in New York, in particular before the meeting of the UN Security Council this evening (January 14). And tomorrow (January 15) the ambassadors of the COPS (Political and Security Committee) should also address the issue of Mali, during their ritual meeting on Tuesday, to examine the political and military consequences of the worsening of the situation on the spot (and the French and British response).