[UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson on Monday voiced his “extreme concern” over a deadly weekend rebel attack on the city of Kidal in northern Mali, underling the importance of a political solution to the current crisis in the West African country. Eliasson called Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita on Monday morning and “expressed his extreme concern at the recent violence over the weekend which included the killing of eight civilians in Kidal,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here. ]

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