Algeria leads the sling against Israel's return to the African Union
Algeria seeks to prevent Israel from arriving as an observer member to the African Union (Illustrative image).
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Algiers is launching a procedure to reject the project to integrate Israel as an observer member of the African Union.
Along with other countries, he denounces a unilateral decision in a letter to the chairman of the AU commission.
Moussa Faki Mahamat is accused of having decided in his corner to integrate the Hebrew state as an observer.
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They would be 14 countries to blame the Commission of the African Union for having accepted Israel as an observer member of the Union without "
preliminary consultations with all the member countries
".
The Algerian authorities have notably succeeded in convincing heavyweights such as South Africa or Niger, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, Egypt, Comoros and Djibouti.
An attack against Moussa Faki
In a letter sent on August 2 to the President of the Commission, they accuse Moussa Faki of having taken, without prior consultations, a decision on "
a sensitive political question
" about which the letter specifies "
the African Union has taken clear decisions that express its position supporting the Palestinian cause
”.
The seven Arab-African countries also regret that the commissioner did not respect "
the goals and principles
" of the constitutive act of the African Union, which was "
respected by his predecessors
", recall the protesters who believe that it does not serve the interests of the African Union.
The seven countries also consider that the Commissioner is overriding the decisions of the African Union of 2002, 2005 and 2007 regarding the rights of the Palestinian people.
Israel was an observer member in the Organization of African Unity (OAU) before it was transformed into the African Union in 2002. It currently has relations with more than forty African countries.
For Kader Abderrahim, researcher and author of
Geopolitics of Algeria
, analyzes this arrival of Israel as an observer state as revealing of a geopolitical recomposition.
Kader Abderrahim: "There is a geopolitical recomposition which is at work today"
Houda Ibrahim
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