Birlehlu (Liberated Territories), January 26, 2015 (SPS) – Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek urged Saturday the African Union to take all necessary steps and actions at the AU level and to make representations to the Chairman of the Crans Montana Forum and the associated partners and sponsors in order to refrain from holding their forum in the occupied parts of an AU Member State, the Sahrawi Republic.
In a letter to Her Excellency Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, the Minister of Foreign Affairs expressed a “strong condemnation of such a serious and unjustified position taken by the Chairman of this organisation, which is contrary to the basic precepts of international legality”.
“Such a decision is without doubt a flagrant violation of the Charter and resolutions of the United Nations and the African Union, because it infringes on the sovereignty of an AU Member State.”
“The international community cannot remain indifferent in the face of such provocative actions, which undermine the ongoing African and UN peace efforts and encourage the Moroccan occupying power to persist in its intransigence, obstruction, looting and committing of human rights abuses in the occupied parts of the Sahrawi Republic.”
“The plans of the Moroccan occupying State that aim to involve actors from around the world, including African entities, in our country must be strongly condemned and boycotted because they violate the Charter and the resolutions of the African Union and the United Nations,” added the letter of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. (SPS)
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