"The Secretary-General welcomes that bilateral partners are responding, at the request and with the consent of the government of Mali, to its call for assistance to counter the troubling push southward by armed and terrorist groups, " his office said in a statement.
The UN is to endeavor to have the United Nations adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia and to call upon all states to enact laws countering it, including deterrent punishment.
More and more countries are resorting to economic nationalism (though they may prefer to call it patriotism) which runs counter to the liberalising forces and open markets that the European Union is supposed to foster.