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The Algerian Prime Minister, Abdelmalek Sellal, acknowledged that Morocco has won the necessary votes to secure its return to the African Union (AU).
Abdelmalek Sellal Admitted that Morocco has Secured Enough Votes to Return to AU
The Algerian Prime Minister has admitted that Morocco’s return to the AU has become inevitable, as it has secured the necessary votes from the majority of African countries.
The senior official said in a press conference during preparations for the Africa-France summit in Bamako last weekend, “Morocco has ensured its integration into the African Union, even before its ordinary summit in Addis Ababa” scheduled to be held on January 27-28.
During the African Union summit held in Kigali, Rwanda, last July, King Mohammed VI expressed in a letter Morocco’s intention to return to the organization and called on its member to reconsider the membership of the unilaterally self-proclaimed Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), a separatist entity that claims to represent the Saharaouis population
The Moroccan monarch’s statement obtained the support of 28 countries, which submitted a motion to the organization and called on it to suspend the membership of the Polisario’s so-called SADR.
Signatories of the motion included, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Comoros, the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Libya, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sao-tome, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo and
Following King Mohammed VI’s letter to the AU summit, Morocco officially submitted its request to rejoin the African Union on September 23,
Morocco, which was among the founding members of the Organization of African Unity in 1963 (today’s African Union) withdrew from the organization in 1984 after its members approved the membership of the so-called
In recent years, Morocco was able to ensure its economic and diplomatic relations more strongly than ever with West, central and East African countries.
