Abuja (Nigeria), 07 February 2021 (SPS)- The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mohamed Salem Salec, warned that the future of the African Union organization is at stake, if Morocco is not punished for its actions that go against the Constitutive Act of the Union.
“The future of the Constitutive Act of the African Union will be at stake, if Moroccan is not punished for violating the basic principles of this Act,” confirmed Saharawi foreign minister, in a statement to the Nigerian press in the margins of his visit to Abuja.
“We will not move on, if we allow foreign interests to pitting an African country against another one,” said Mr. Ould Salec, questioning AU’s legitimacy unless it is able to punish a member state that violates its fundamental principles.
Ould Salec went on saying that Morocco deployed last November its soldiers in the buffer zone in Guergerat, because it and its allies at UN Security Council, namely France and US, believed that the Council would not object and the Saharawis would only protest.
Head of Saharawi diplomacy confirmed that Morocco did not expect the outbreak of a war that will not stop until Morocco ends its occupation of the territories of the Saharawi Republic.
On other hand, Mr. Ould Salec underlined that a referendum on self-determination for the Saharawi people was to be held decades ago, adding that Morocco spared no effort to block that referendum knowing that the Saharawis would never vote in favour of Morocco’s annexation to their territories. (SPS)
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