France will be uncompromising in its fight against militant
Islamists in Mali and the Sahel region, President Emmanuel Macron said on
Friday during his first visit outside Europe's borders.
Speaking alongside Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita
at the Gao military base in the north of the country where some 1,600 troops
are based, Macron also said France was determined to act for continued security
in the region, and would seek to strengthen cooperation with France's EU
partner Germany to that end.
"Germany is very present in back-up operations,"
he said.
"I want to strengthen that partnership and make sure
that this German commitment, which is already present, can be
intensified." "Germany knows what is at stake here (and) is also part
of Europe's security and our future. Neither France nor Germany are isolated
islands."
Reported by Andrew Callus and Marine Pennetier
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