Mali's decision to renounce a military cooperation agreement with France after Paris fell out with its ruling junta is "unjustified," a French foreign ministry spokesman said Tuesday.

France "considers that this decision is unjustified and absolutely contests any violation of the bilateral legal framework", the spokesman told reporters in Paris, after Bamako said Monday it would quit the 2014 accords because of "flagrant violations" of its sovereignty by French troops.

Mali's ruling junta announced on Monday it was disengaging from its defence agreement with France, condemning "flagrant violations" of its national sovereignty by the French troops.

The agreements Mali has ended were those that set the framework for France’s intervention in Mali in 2014.

They were signed a year after French troops deployed a large force to help Mali’s armed forces stop a militant offensive there.