"UNITED NATIONS MULTIDIMENSIONAL INTEGRATED STABILIZATION MISSION IN MALI - MINUSMA"

Noon briefing by Florencia Soto Nino, Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) will complete its withdrawal by 31 December as requested by the UN Security Council. As the Mission ends its decade-long presence in the country, the outgoing Special Representative of the Secretary-General, El-Ghassim Wane, reflects on MINUSMA’s achievements and the way forward in the UN-Mali relationship. UNIFEED / FILE

As the 10-year-old mission in Mali, MINUSMA, is currently winding down ahead of its end of December deadline to leave, the head of UN Peacekeeping, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said, a UN mission “cannot operate if we don't have the support of the host government.” UNIFEED / FILE

A ceremony was held in Bamako, Mali to mark the conclusion of MINUSMA, the UN peacekeeping mission in the country following its ten years of service to the people of Mali, a UN Spokesperson said. UNIFEED / FILE

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

Updating reporters on Peace Operations, a UN spokesperson said that in Lebanon a peacekeeper was injured on 12 November, adding that in Mali, the troops from Chad who withdrew from mission’s base in Kidal have now departed the country using routes by road and by air. UNIFEED

Noon briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.

A UN spokesperson said that the convoy from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) that left Kidal on 31 October reached Gao last night without further incident. UNIFEED