“The new situation resulting from the end of Operation Barkhane puts Mali before a fait accompli – abandoning us, mid-flight to a certain extent – and it leads us to explore pathways and means to better ensure our security autonomously, or with other partners,” he said.Īlready battling armed groups in the country’s north and centre, Mali slid into political turmoil last year when its military seized power from President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in a coup. Mali’s Prime Minister Choguel Maiga addresses the 76th session of the UNGA in New York City, US, September 25 Īddressing the UNGA, Maiga said his government was justified to seek other partners to help “fill the gap which will certainly result from the withdrawal of Barkhane in the north of the country”. The French defence ministry declined to comment on Lavrov’s comments. It also insists there are no Russian paramilitaries in Libya, despite Western claims to the contrary. Russia admits having deployed “instructors” to CAR but says they are not active in fighting. Russian paramilitaries, private security instructors and companies have grown increasingly influential in parts of Africa in recent years, particularly in the conflict-ridden Central African Republic (CAR), where the UN has accused Wagner contractors of committing abuses. Germany, which also has troops in Mali, also says it will reconsider its deployment should the Malian government strike a deal with Wagner. Lavrov’s comments came after European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned that the bloc’s ties with Mali could be seriously affected if it allows Russian private military contractors from the controversial Wagner Group to operate in the country.Īccording to reports, Mali’s military-dominated government in Bamako is close to hiring 1,000 Wagner paramilitaries to help it in the fight against armed groups linked to al-Qaeda and the ISIL (ISIS) armed group.įrance, which deployed more than 5,000 soldiers in the Sahel region under its Barkhane mission but has pledged a major troop drawdown, has warned Mali that hiring Wagner fighters would isolate the country internationally. “This is an activity which has been carried out on a legitimate basis,” he said. With France preparing to reduce its military presence in the Sahel region, the Malian government estimated that “its own capacities would be insufficient in the absence of external support” and initiated the discussions, Lavrov told reporters on the sidelines of the UNGA. Meanwhile, in his address to the UN General Assembly, Mali’s Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maiga accused France of abandoning his country with its “unilateral” decision to withdraw troops. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Saturday private Russian military contractors have a “legitimate” right to be in Mali because they were invited by the country’s transitional government – but he insisted that the Russian government was not involved. It is possible to set up more complex expression indexes wherein the configuration name is specified by another column.Mali has asked Russian private companies to boost security in the conflict-torn country, Moscow confirmed as the Malian leader accused France of abandoning Bamako by preparing a large troop drawdown. This ensures that an index will be used only with the same configuration used to create the index entries. That is, WHERE to_tsvector('english', body) 'a & b' can use the index, but WHERE to_tsvector(body) 'a & b' cannot. It would be impossible to dump and restore such an index correctly.īecause the two-argument version of to_tsvector was used in the index above, only a query reference that uses the 2-argument version of to_tsvector with the same configuration name will use that index. If they were affected, the index contents might be inconsistent, because different entries could contain tsvectors that were created with different text search configurations, and there would be no way to guess which was which. This is because the index contents must be unaffected by default_text_search_config, whose value can be changed at any time. Only text search functions that specify a configuration name can be used in expression indexes. Notice that the 2-argument version of to_tsvector is used for index creation. When the 1-argument version is used, the system uses the configuration specified by default_text_search_config by default. The to_tsvector function comes in to two versions: the 1-argument version and the 2-argument version. pgweb USING gin ( to_tsvector ( 'english', body ))