But that's puts him at odds with former colonial power France.

During a two day visit from French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian, Prime Minister Mota Owen had this to say on this question.

It is useful to repeat the conclusions of the national inclusive dialogue that took place here at home thing, which clearly indicated the need to offer dialogue with these armed groups, a big city observing It's a position that was adopted by ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita earlier this year and was then endorsed in the national talks in the aftermath off on August coup that removed Keita from power.

But on Monday, Le Drian indicated his opposition and quoted from a declaration by the secretary general off the United Nations in phone vision, global solar cell.

There will be groups with whom we will be able to talk on to have an interest in engaging in this dialogue in order to become the political actors of the future, but they remain those whose terrorist radicalism is such that we will have nothing to do with them.

Le Drian also noted that the Al Qaeda linked militants had not signed a 2015 peace deal considered a framework for restoring peace to northern Mali.

France, shaken by the recent behead enough A teacher by an Islamist militant has 5000 troops in Mali and neighboring countries in West Africa.

Suhel after first intervening in 2013.

But the jihadists have grown stronger in recent years, stepping into vacuums left by weekend state authorities.