The UN Security Council is poised to adopt a draft resolution paving the way for military intervention in Mali, French officials have said.
Adoption of the text is anticipated for 19:00 GMT on Friday, the French mission to the United Nations announced via Twitter.
The resolution seeks a detailed plan within 30 days from West Africa's ECOWAS regional body, the African Union and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on an international military intervention in Mali in a bid to oust armed fighters from
the country's north.
After details for military intervention are submitted, the 15-member Security Council would still have to pass a second resolution to greenlight the deployment.
That resolution is not expected until late November at the earliest.
In March, military putschists seized power in the capital Bamako, ousting President Amadou Toumani Toure, only to see the north and east fall to Tuareg rebels and militias linked to al-Qaeda.
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