African Union Slaps Morocco By Forming A Mechanism To Resolve The Sahara Conflict

Morocco received a resounding diplomatic slap in the African Union’s announcement of the creation of an African Presidential Commission to resolve the dispute in Western Sahara, which came at a time when the Mekhzen is promoting fake victories it says it has achieved on the so-called “opponents” of its territorial unit since its return to the African Union’s institutions.

Leaders of the delegations that are attending the African Union Summit, which is held in Nouakchott and Mauritania agreed on Sunday to set up an African mechanism to resolve the conflict in Western Sahara, following a proposal by the Chairman of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki, during a closed meeting of African leaders that are attending the summit.

The Mekhzen was represented by the Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Nasser Bourita, at the Nouakchott Summit in the absence of Morocco King Mohammed VI, who left the summit in a position that surprised the observers because he used to participate in such a summit since the Addis Ababa Summit, which noticed the return of Morocco to the AU institutions, after a break that lasted more than three decades.

The General Secretary of the Frente POLISARIO, Ibrahim Ghali said: “The participants in the summit have already ratified the formation of a presidential committee to resolve the Moroccan-Sahrawi conflict.”

The Sahrawi official explained that the committee includes members of the former African Union Presidents, Alpha Koundi, the current Paul Kagame, the President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, and the President of the African Union Commission the Tchad, Moussa Faki.

He considered the list that was endorsed by African leaders at the summit as “a new diplomatic victory that confirms the historic position of the African Union on the settlement of this conflict”, which has been in force for more than four decades.

“The African Union can not wait to see this crisis, which has been going on for 40 years”, said the AU Commission President, Moussa Faki, as it is the first decisive step that is taken by the African Union on the Sahara issue.

In the first reaction by the Moroccan authorities to this shocking decision, the Foreign Minister, Nasser Bourita, said that the African Union is not interested in resolving the Western Sahara issue and can not interfere in the course of a file that is held by the United Nations and the Security Council.

The intervention of the African Union in the Sahara issue came after the African leaders realized that the efforts of the United Nations lack the seriousness and rigidity in the face of Moroccan intransigence, although the new UN envoy, the former German President, Horst Kohler, seems more serious, by expanding consultations on this issue, to both the European Union and the African Union, despite the Moroccan rejection of what he does.