The President of Guinea Bissau and current President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mr. Umaro Sissoco Embalo, left the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development ( TICAD), opened on Saturday in Tunis, to protest once morest the participation of the “polisario” imposed by Tunisia.
This decision reinforces the position of a large number of African countries, including Senegal, which regretted that this Ticad meeting was marked by the absence of Morocco, an eminent member of the African Union, for lack of a consensus on a question of representation.
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Morocco has decided not to participate in the 8th TICAD Summit, which is being held in Tunisia on August 27 and 28, and to immediately recall for consultation the Ambassador of HM the King in Tunis “following the attitude of this country in the framework of the process of the Japan-Africa cooperation forum which blatantly confirms its hostility towards the Kingdom”.
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