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Amadou Sanogo, who led a military coup on March 22, also pledged to re-establish all state institutions before organizing a transfer of power back to civilians through democratic elections. He made the promises after the 15-nation ECOWAS grouping threatened sanctions, including a crippling closure of borders around the land-locked state, if the junta did not begin handing power back by midnight. The aim of the putsch by disgruntled soldiers was to step up the battle against the northern rebels. But the coup has backfired, emboldening the Tuareg-led rebellion to seize new ground in its quest for a northern homeland. On Sunday they entered their latest target, Timbuktu, after government forces fled. "We are making the solemn commitment to re-establish, from today, the Malian constitution of February 25, 1992 and the institutions of the republic," Sanogo said in a statement read out at a barracks outside the capital Bamako. Sanogo, a hitherto obscure U.S.-trained captain, said the junta had agreed to consult with local political forces to set up a transition body "with the aim of organizing peaceful, free, open and democratic elections in which we will not take part". There was no immediate reaction from ECOWAS. However, the re-establishment of the constitution and state institutions were two measures named earlier by an envoy of Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, the crisis mediator, as essential preconditions for Mali to avoid sanctions. "After that, we shall see what happens as regards the person of (Malian) President Amadou Toumani Toure," Burkina Foreign Minister Djibril Bassolet told Reuters by telephone minutes before Sanogo's statement. "We want to be careful, we have to go gradually," he said, warning of the risk of a power vacuum. PLANTING FLAGS Boosted by heavily armed Tuareg returning from Libya and tapping into frustrations over underdevelopment in the north, MNLA rebels launched a push for independence in mid January. The rebels have fought alongside another rebel group seeking to impose sharia law, underscoring the complex web of gunmen in a zone which is home also to local al Qaeda groups and smugglers. The northern administrative centre of Kidal fell on Friday, followed on Saturday by the garrison town of Gao. Timbuktu's capture would largely complete the rebels' plan of seizing Mali's north, a desert territory bigger than France. "They have arrived in the town. They are planting their flag," El Hadj Baba Haidara, member of parliament for Timbuktu, told Reuters by telephone. A resident said the MNLA rebels had planted their flag at the governor's office, the mayor's office and the main military camp. It was not immediately clear if the rebels were in full control as an Arab-led militia remained after government forces abandoned the town. Both sources said the town was mainly quiet, except for sporadic gunfire and the looting of some government buildings by armed men and civilians. Another resident, who declined to be named, said she saw soldiers putting on civilian clothes. Timbuktu, for centuries a major trading post in the Sahara, was fabled for its gold, slaves and other goods, but it fell into decline even before the French 19th century occupation. Attempts to develop tourism have been hit by rising insecurity, including kidnappings of Westerners by local al Qaeda agents. Western and regional nations, already critical of Toure's soft approach towards the Islamists, are likely to fret over a security void which the rebel push has left in the Sahara. While coup leaders won early support from many Malians weary of Toure's rule, the latest military defeats and the sheer scale of foreign disapproval have weakened their position. "Everywhere it is burning. Mali cannot fight on all fronts at the same time ... Let us put our personal quarrels aside," Siaka Diakite, Secretary-General of the UNTM trade union, said in a statement backed by anti-putsch political parties. Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara has said he expected Toure, who has said he is safe in an undisclosed location in Mali, to see out the remaining two months of his mandate before a transitional national unity government was named. "Then elections should be held between 21 and 40 days later. It is up to the political class to see if that is possible," Ouattara, the ECOWAS head, told Ivorian television. 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