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Comment by the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the attack on military forces of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)
Moscow was deeply outraged by the terrorist sortie of militants against the peacekeepers of MINUSMA in the north of Mali on the 23 October, which resulted in the deaths of Chadian military personnel and Malian civilians.
We decisively condemn this absolutely unjustified act of violence, which disrupts the emerging foundations of the internal political stabilisation and the process of national settlement in Mali.
At this tragic time, we express our support to the authorities of Mali and Chad, the heads of MINUSMA, as well as sympathising with the grief of friends and family of those who were killed, and wishing a speedy recovery to the injured.
25 October 2013