The European Union-African Union summit of February 17 and 18 in Brussels may be contaminated by the presence of Brahim Ghali, leader of the Polisario is targeted by two complaints for “torture” and “genocide”.
In the same wake, several MEPs who have launched an online petition to express their refusal to welcome the leader of the separatist front, accused of war crimes and crimes once morest humanity. Barhim Ghali, let us remember, is the subject of two complaints in Spain, the most recent of which concerns crimes of torture and crimes once morest humanity”. The complaint was filed two years earlier by Fadel Breika, a dissident from the Polisario Front, who says he was the victim of “torture” in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria.
“Moroccan MPs, members of the Morocco-EU Joint Parliamentary Committee, representing all political tendencies in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Morocco, welcomed with great astonishment the European intention to allow the possible participation of the leader of the Polisario, the so-called Brahim Ghali, in the sixth summit of the European Union-African Union to be held on February 17 and 18 in Brussels,” said Lahcen Haddad in the said letter, highlighting the turbulence that may affect the strategic nature of the Africa-Europe partnership.
Morocco and the EU have inestimable potential capable of transforming the whole region into a zone of prosperity, “and for little, certain visions which often feed on unresolved misunderstandings, become corrupted over time”, argues the President of the Commission, noting that the Brahim Ghali case is one of those occasional gray areas, which “disturb relations between Morocco and Spain, and now with the EU”.
Lahcen Haddad concluded his letter by urging the European Parliament to prevent an instrumentalization of Europe in support of the agenda of a military junta at the expense of a comprehensive Morocco-EU partnership, respectful of the sovereignty of each of others and of the international legal instruments which bind it, not only to Europe but also to the entire international community.