Olivier Salgado’s tweeted on 47 Ivorian soldiers who were arrested last month entering Mali
Bamako — Mali’s military government on Wednesday ordered the spokesperson of the UN peacekeeping mission to leave the country within 72 hours over tweets about a diplomatic incident with Ivory Coast that has soured relations with the UN.
The junta temporarily suspended the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali troop rotations last week, days after the arrest of 49 soldiers from Ivory Coast authorities said had arrived in the country without permission. He tweeted “without proof” that authorities had been informed about the Ivorian troops’ arrival, the government said in a statement. Salgado declined to comment.“It is important to note that the doctrine of persona non grata does not apply to UN personnel,” deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq told reporters in New York.
Ivory Coast says the soldiers were deployed as part of a separate security and logistics support contract signed with Minusma in July 2019 and has demanded their immediate release.
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