Topic: 2025 – Situation in Mali
Country: Pakistan
Delegate Name: Cameron Balis
Mali has not seen peace since 2012. The government and its citizens of Mali have had to deal with the absurd terrorist operations of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). Along with the JNIM, they are both of the Jihad ideology; these groups stand against the Malian government and the Malian people. Both groups think a free-thinking democracy should not exist in Mali. This thinking of the MNLA factions exudes an open rebellion against the current government. They have had skirmishes to the point of French inclusion into the Mali government and military. Pakistan has taken the stance of supporting the Malian government and their devotion to democratic thinking.
Pakistan sees that Mali struggles economically and is one of the poorest countries in the world, and Pakistan has struggled with poverty. Pakistan sees the lengths Mali has taken to try to escape poverty, but the coups in the north of Mali destroy all support for economic growth. Pakistan has always taken an anti-terrorist stance, and we have imposed laws for anti-terrorism such as the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 that set up the logistics for anti-terrorism. We would like to see these same laws imposed in Mali, but recognise the current political instability that Mali faces but how this law would be carried out is training Malian Security Forces and the Malian army of these anti-terrorist laws. Pakistan is willing to dedicate a significant amount of logistics support in this cause as we already have in the form of Peacekeepers setting up spontaneous hospitals in Mali for civilians and government security forces. French involvement in driving to exploit the Malian people and their resources in the early 2010s proves the failed policy that this Security Council has taken, along with accountability for one nation’s actions. Instead, Pakistan recommends that Security Council members take action in deploying peacekeepers to the country to stabilize the contested regions in the north, then take up logistics support for Mali in deploying aid to citizens and soldiers.
What Pakistan is going to pursue in the Security Council is bringing peace back to Mali, in the form of economic support and political reform to their current government. These terrorist groups must be snuffed out in Mali if they have any chance to grow as a nation. Pakistan moves to push the United Nations Security Council to implement a joint movement whether that be peacekeepers or aid in stabilizing the politics of the country. Once those reforms are implemented can humanitarian aid for Mail can be applied and unharassed in full force.
Works Cited-
https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/pakistani-women-peacekeepers-forefront-of-military-hospital-mali
https://glica.org/glimun/committees/situation-in-mali/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272158905_The_Situation_in_Mali_and_Pakistan’s_Position
