Brussels, Belgium, September 28, 2017//-The Council transposed into legal acts the provisions of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2374 (2017), which allows sanctions to be imposed on those actively preventing the implementation of the Peace and Reconciliation Agreement in Mali in 2015.
The persons and entities concerned shall, where appropriate, be designated by the Security Council or by the UN Sanctions Committee as being responsible or accomplices for activities or policies which constitute a threat to peace, security or stability in Mali .
This could include participation in hostilities that violate the Peace and Reconciliation Agreement in Mali or attacks not only against Malian institutions and defense and security forces, but also against international forces. This applies to the blue helmets of the United Nations Integrated Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), the joint force of the group of five Sahel countries (G5-Sael), European Union missions and French forces.
It also applies to obstructing the provision of humanitarian aid to Mali, to participation in human rights violations or to the employment or recruitment of children by armed groups or armed forces in the framework of the conflict in Mali.
Sanctions against designated persons will result in restrictions on the admission of persons targeted (prohibition to enter EU territory), the freezing in the EU of assets belonging to the persons and entities concerned and the prohibition imposed on persons and entities established the EU to put funds at their disposal.
These provisions will be fully inserted in the legal acts to be published in the Official Gazette of September 29, 2017. These legal acts were adopted by written procedure.
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