BAMAKO, 10 June, 2021 (TON): On Wednesday, the ECOWAS delegation met with Mali's Prime Minister in the second of a two-day visit in Mali’s capital.

ECOWAS mediator, Goodluck Jonathan, Malian Prime Minister, Choguel Maiga, and the President of the ECOWAS commission, Jean-Claude Brou Kassi, attended the meeting.

Maiga said that the new government would within six weeks present the actions to be taken, adding that Mali's partners will hold our hand as they have always done when our country has gone through a storm.

"In a few weeks we will come back to the Malians and then to the international community, to indicate the firm determination to go through with the transition, which should be a successful transition, after having resolved or addressed all the issues and difficulties that were at the root of the change that we have experienced," he said.

The West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, has been supporting mediation talks in Mali when Colonel Goita, who first grabbed power in August 2020 by overthrowing Mali's democratically elected president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and agreed to transitional government.