Tunisia He called this Saturday for consultations with his ambassador in Rabat due to the crisis with Official reception of the president of the Sahara Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)On behalf of Tunisian President Kais Said, Brahim Gali will attend a summit on African development in the Tunisian capital.
Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced thought he was “surprised” and “no logical reason” For the Moroccan response, which this Friday summoned Tunisian ambassador Hassan Tarik and suspended his participation in the summit, considering Gali’s presence “an hostile and harmful attitude to the brotherly relations that the two countries have always enjoyed”.
“While Tunisia claims The will to preserve friendly, fraternal and historical relations with the Moroccan peopleWe categorically reject the comments in Morocco’s statement accusing our country of taking an aggressive stance against Morocco and harming Moroccan interests,” the statement said.
on the note, describes their statements as “false”. In the eighth edition of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD), which will be held in Tunisia with the regional heads of Government and State until tomorrow Sunday, Tunisia has “decided to unilaterally invite the separatist entity (SADR)”. Morocco.
Tunisia defended It maintains its complete neutrality on Western Sahara. “respecting international legitimacy” and “contrary to what is stated in the Moroccan statement”, the African Union invited all its members, including SADR, as the main participants.
Foreign Affairs added that the Saharawi Republic has previously participated in TICAD, both in Kenya in 2016 and in Japan in 2019, as well as other regional meetings such as the Africa-Europe Summit.
Morocco returned to the African Union in 2017, an organization that SADR left three decades ago due to its entry as a member.
Regarding Western Sahara, which has been in force since 1975 and awaiting decolonization, Morocco defends a plan for autonomy within its borders, which it proposed to the UN in 2007, while the Polisario Front calls for a referendum on self-determination with the option of choice. independence.
Rabat has opted for a more aggressive diplomatic line on defense in recent years its dominance over the former Spanish colony