Identifier
Created
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08BAMAKO221
2008-03-03 15:12:00
SECRET
Embassy Bamako
Cable title:  

(S/NF) MALI'S REGULATION OF EXPLOSIVE PRECURSORS

Tags:  PINR EAGR PTER ML 
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S E C R E T BAMAKO 000221 

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/03/2018
TAGS: PINR EAGR PTER ML
SUBJECT: (S/NF) MALI'S REGULATION OF EXPLOSIVE PRECURSORS
(C-CT7-01577)

REF: A. 07 STATE 132047

B. STATE 16558

Classified By: Classified by Political Officer Glenn Fedzer
For Reason 1.4 (C)

S E C R E T BAMAKO 000221

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 03/03/2018
TAGS: PINR EAGR PTER ML
SUBJECT: (S/NF) MALI'S REGULATION OF EXPLOSIVE PRECURSORS
(C-CT7-01577)

REF: A. 07 STATE 132047

B. STATE 16558

Classified By: Classified by Political Officer Glenn Fedzer
For Reason 1.4 (C)


1. (S/NF) Mali does not yet have a law place to regulate the
purchase, concentrations, and use of referenced explosive
precursors (reftels). However, according to Mr. Abdramane
Sidibe, the Chief of the Regulation and Control Division at
the Ministry of Agriculture, the Council of Ministers
approved a draft law to regulate the sector on October 31,

2007. This draft law was passed at the National Assembly on
February 7, 2008. The law is now awaiting approval by
President Amadou Toumani Toure before entering into force.
Once the law is approved, then the Ministry of Agriculture
will issue a decree aimed at implementing the law by
outlining all the details of regulation and control
procedures, including import, storage, sales, and use
conditions. It will also declare legal concentration limits.
An inter-ministerial committee will oversee the fertilizer
regulation process.


2. (S/NF) Currently, the state-owned Malian cotton company
(CMDT),which consolidates fertilizer procurements for cotton
farmers, uses urea (46% Nitrogen) in fertilizer for both
cotton and grain crops. The President of CMDT, Soumeleye
Dante, reports that nitrophosphate is replacing the urea
formula. A 50 kg sack of urea or nitrophosphate costs around
USD 25.
MCCULLEY