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The vice president of the Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), Mahamadou Djeri Maiga (C-L), arrives for a meeting on peace talks, attended by Mali's various warring factions for the first time since an interim agreement in June 2013, on July 16, 2014 in the Algerian capital Algiers. The Bamako government is ready to make concessions within its "red lines" to clinch an accord with armed groups from northern Mali, Diop said, as peace talks began in Algiers. Those red lines include "respect for territorial unity, the unity of Mali and the republican form of the Malian state," he added. AFP PHOTO/FAROUK BATICHE (Photo by FAROUK BATICHE / AFP) (Photo by FAROUK BATICHE/AFP via Getty Images)