Experts to be deployed to Mali
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- Date: 27.11.2015
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Slovak troops are to join the EU Training Mission in Mali (EUTM Mali). This follows from the proposal adopted by the SVK Government. Accordingly, the SVK Armed Forces will dispatch a maximum of 5 Service members to Africa for a 6-month tour of duty. This comes as a response of the Slovak Republic to the request of the Republic of France, which has, after the recent terrorist attacks, requested support, including from the SVK Armed Forces, in the form of contributions to EU and UN operations in the world’s hotspots.
“At the request of the French authorities, we will send highly specialized military experts to Mali. This will include deploying an operational mentor team to provide advice and training. By this contribution, we seek to express our solidarity with our French partners and uphold European and democratic values,” said SVK Minister of Defence Martin Glváč. The precise conditions under which our troops will be deployed are still being worked out with the French authorities.
The decision to do so builds on the historically first activation of the common defence clause, i.e. Article 42.7 of the Treaty on European Union. The article was activated by France at the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council session at the level of defence ministers on 17 November 2015.
Following the mandate of the UN Security Council, EUTM Mali has been in progress since 2013. It is aimed at supporting Mali’s state bodies in restoring the constitutional and democratic order, exercising fully fledged sovereignty over its entire territory, and neutralizing organized crime and terrorist threats.
“At the request of the French authorities, we will send highly specialized military experts to Mali. This will include deploying an operational mentor team to provide advice and training. By this contribution, we seek to express our solidarity with our French partners and uphold European and democratic values,” said SVK Minister of Defence Martin Glváč. The precise conditions under which our troops will be deployed are still being worked out with the French authorities.
The decision to do so builds on the historically first activation of the common defence clause, i.e. Article 42.7 of the Treaty on European Union. The article was activated by France at the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council session at the level of defence ministers on 17 November 2015.
Following the mandate of the UN Security Council, EUTM Mali has been in progress since 2013. It is aimed at supporting Mali’s state bodies in restoring the constitutional and democratic order, exercising fully fledged sovereignty over its entire territory, and neutralizing organized crime and terrorist threats.
