Published on February 16, 2022 at 10:25 p.m. by AFP
The European Union (EU) reiterated on Wednesday that its position has not changed on the Sahara issue, stating that none of its member states recognizes the “Sahrawi Arab Republic-RASD”. Responding to a question on an invitation that would be extended to separatists for the European Union-African Union summit which opens on Thursday in Brussels, EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Spokesman Peter Stano insisted that the European side did not invite the Polisario.
“The fundamental point to clarify is that for this Summit, the European Union is co-organizer with the African Union (…) so it is the African Union which took charge of the invitation” on the African side, he explained.
He specified that this invitation from the African Union “does not change the position of the European Union”, namely that it does not recognize this entity, any more than any of the EU Member States recognize.
It should be recalled that this position is in line with that which the EU expressed at the EU-AU Summit in Abidjan in 2017.