Rome: Worried by the spread of the Islamic State throughout Africa, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi in Maio said on Monday, he wanted to establish an international task force to fight threats.
US Secretary Antony Blinken, spoke after a meeting in Italy aimed at renewing efforts to combat Islamic militants, said he supported Italian initiative.
The affiliate of the Islamic State has claimed the increase in recent weeks in Nigeria, Sahel, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, helping to compensate significant setbacks in the Middle East, where the group initially gained excellence.
“With US support and many other partners, I propose the formation of an African task force to identify and stop the terrorist threats related to the continent,” said Maio to reporters, standing with Blinken.
He said African countries that were initially not part of the anti-Islamic coalition, including Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mozambique, were invited to the Monday meeting – a two-year alliance’s Tatua meeting.
The coalition said in a statement that it also welcomed new members to the Central African, Congo, Mauritania and Yemeni groups – to join 78 countries and five organizations that have become theirs.
In Maio did not provide further details about what the proposed African assignment will do.
However, the possibility of building work done by French forces in the Sahel region since 2013.
President Emmanuel Macron said this month the French operation will end with troops now operating as part of a wider international effort in the region.
Macron said the details of change would be completed at the end of June after consultation with the United States, European countries involved in the area and five countries Sahel – Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania.
Blinken and in Maio urged the alliance not to reduce his safeguards to the state of Islam regardless of reality, militants had lost many of their territory in Iraq and Syria.
“Let me say it is very clear that we strongly support the Italian initiative to ensure that the coalition against DAESH (IS) focuses his expertise in Africa, while maintaining our views carefully in Syria and Iraq,” Blinken said, “Blinken said,” Blinken said.
“With all the reasons we just quoted, we decided this was very important, and I thought we heard strong consensus at this time on our coalition partners to do that,” he added.
US Top Diplomats also urged the country to take back around 10,000 Islamic state fighters detained in the camps run by the Syrian Democracy forces led by Kurdi (SDF), said the situation “could not be maintained”.
“It cannot survive without limits.
The United States continues to urge the country of origin, including coalition partners, to repatriate, rehabilitate, and if applicable, demanding their citizenship at the meeting.