Shahid Al Hafed, 6 March 2022 (SPS) - Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Botswana, Mr. Malanin Lakhal, affirmed Sunday in a statement to the Sahara Press Service (APS), that the accreditation by Angola and Botswana of their first ambassadors to the Sahrawi Republic is an explicit rejection of the attempts of the Moroccan occupation regime to impose a colonial fait accompli in Western Sahara.
The Sahrawi ambassador stressed that "the decision of these two countries was not arbitrary, but was a direct and conscious response to all the attempts of the Moroccan occupation regime to impose fait accompli policies that are unacceptable in our country on the grounds of their support for international and African law and legitimacy, as well as an explicit rejection of the Moroccan pressures on some countries, which in many cases exceeded the simplest rules of decency and diplomatic etiquette.
The Sahrawi diplomat added that both Angola and Botswana are "active members of the Group of Southern African States, and they represent two regimes with long-standing experiences in the struggle against colonialism," noting that the Sahrawi Republic "is ready and determined to deepen cooperation relations with the two countries, as confirmed by the President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front." Mr. Brahim Ghali, when he received the credentials of the two ambassadors on 27 February and 1 March.
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