France had 'no choice' over Mali intervention

The French ambassador to the United Nations has said that his country launched a military intervention in Mali because it believed that the existence of the country was at stake.

Gerard Araud told a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday that France was responding to calls for help from the government of the former French colony.




Hours earlier, rebel fighters in Mali responded to French airstrikes and military action with a counter-offensive, overrunning the town of Diabaly, French and Malian authorities confirmed.

Araud said France had "no other choice" but to help the Malian government.

"We will defend [the capital] Bamako. We will not let the southern part of the country, with its 13 million inhabitants, fall to terrorist groups," said Araud.French military forces, who began battling in Mali on Friday, widened their aerial bombing campaign against the rebels occupying northern Mali, launching airstrikes for the first time in central Mali to combat the new threat.

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