In three reports in which the issue of the Moroccan Sahara was often mentioned, there was no indication of the national cause, said Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, during a press conference at the headquarters of the African Union (AU) on the sidelines of the 35th ordinary session of the Summit of the Pan-African organization, yesterday Saturday, February 5 in Addis Ababa.
No reference to the Moroccan Sahara issue this year in AU reports. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, Nasser Bourita, yesterday Saturday February 5 in Addis Ababa, during a press briefing. According to the head of Moroccan diplomacy, “in three reports in which the question of the Moroccan Sahara was often mentioned, there was no indication of the national cause”.
The Minister quoted in this sense the reports of the African Commission on Human Rights, the Peace and Security Council of the AU and on the humanitarian situation. The report on the humanitarian situation in Africa, which has always been used to address only one point of view on the subject, has now become a very balanced and very objective report. So many assets which reinforce Morocco’s vision for the African Union with regard to the question of the Moroccan Sahara, that is to say that the file falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United Nations, reaffirmed Bourita. “Whoever wanted to push the African Union on this issue had a special agenda and wanted to achieve in Addis Ababa what they could not do in New York,” the minister noted.
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“Today, a harmony will be created between New York and Addis Ababa. The same perspective, the same logic. The reference is Security Council resolutions. The reference is the UN way. The African Union, like any regional organization, lends its support and accompanies the efforts deployed by the United Nations”, maintained the Minister.
As a reminder, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad, represents HM King Mohammed VI at this 35th session of the Summit placed this year under the theme “Building resilience in terms of nutritional security in the African Continent: strengthening agriculture, accelerating socio-economic and human capital development”.
(With MAP)