Cairo's choice comes after seven Egyptians peacekeepers were killed in Mali starting from the beginning of this current year.
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Egypt has 1,072 soldiers and 144 police in the UN mission in Mali known as MINUSMA [File - Asmaa Waguih/Reuters]
The United Nations mission in Mali said that Egypt will pull out its soldiers from the West African country by mid-August refering to lethal assaults against its peacekeepers. Seven Egyptian peacekeepers have been killed in Mali up until this point this year, as per authorities.
Olivier Salgado, the representative of the UN mission in Mali, affirmed on Friday that Egypt will suspend its exercises in Mali.
"We affirm that Egypt, through its Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, communicated its anxiety toward the start of the week at the expansion in assaults against peacekeepers escort the guards providing our bases in the middle and northern Mali," Salgado said in an explanation.
"These assaults have caused the demise of seven Egyptian troopers starting from the start of the year," he said.
"We have been educated that thus, the Egyptian contingent will briefly suspend its exercises inside MINUSMA as of August 15."
Egypt has 1,072 soldiers and 144 police in the UN mission in Mali known as MINUSMA.
The choice is one more catastrophe for the UN mission after Mali's tactical rulers briefly suspended troop revolutions by contributing countries to the peacekeeping mission on Thursday
'Frequently hazardous circumstances'.
The suspension of its job in MINUSMA will stay set up until Egypt's interests over the wellbeing and security of its peacekeepers are tended to, a negotiator with information on the choice, told the Reuters news organization.
Another political source said that Egypt has been worried for quite a while about peacekeeper security, however Mali's choice on Thursday to end troop revolution was reasonable the trigger to suspend exercises.
The negotiator added that the suspension of exercises, especially the battle caravan force, is supposed to create setbacks for fuel guard conveyances and could have serious repercussions.