UN condemns attack on its mission in Mali


02-06-2022 02:47 PM

Ammon News - UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned the attack perpetrated against a logistics convoy of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), yesterday in the vicinity of Kidal town, in which a peacekeeper from Jordan was killed and three others were injured, according to a UN statement issued today.

Guterres expressed his deep condolences to the family of the victim, as well as to the Kingdom and people of Jordan, wisjing a speedy recovery to the injured.
He said that attacks targeting United Nations peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law, calling on the Malian authorities to spare no effort in identifying the perpetrators of this attack so that they can be brought to justice swiftly.

The UN Security Council members also condemned in the strongest terms the attack perpetrated against the MINUSMA , following which one peacekeeper from Jordan was killed and three others wounded.

They expressed their deepest condolences and sympathy to the family of the victim, as well as to Jordan. They also expressed condolences to the United Nations. They wished a speedy and full recovery to those who were injured.

In Jordan, the UN country team in Amman expressed its deep condolences to the Kingdom, its government, and the family of Jordanian Peacekeeper Sergeant Ali Juma’a Shehadeh Al-Jawbra, killed in the attack on the logistics convoy.

They also wished a speedy and full recovery to the three peacekeepers wounded in the same attack; two of them were Jordanians.




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