Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accuses France of having a "colonial mentality" towards Mali while hosting his Malian counterpart Abdoulaye Diop in Moscow. France's "dissatisfaction with the intent of Malian leadership to seek help from external security forces is nothing other than a recurrence of colonial mentality," Lavrov tells reporters. For his part, Diop says that "certain of our partners have not yet realised that things have changed", and hails the fact that Mali has "taken its destiny into its own hands". IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES