21/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - Van Rompuy extends EUTM Mali mission until 2016. “We have extended the military mission until 2016”, President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy told the press on Wednesday 19 February during his visit to Mali, AFP reports. “We are quite ready to decide to send a civilian mission to train security forces within the country”, he added, following a meeting with the President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. (MB/transl.fl)