The Secretary General of the Arab Maghreb Union (ONE) reacted to the crisis between Morocco and Tunisia, triggered by the reception, on Friday August 26, of Tunisian President Kais Saïd to the leader of the Polisario, within the framework of the 8th Tokyo International Conference on African Development ( TICAD).
“Since the General Secretariat of the Arab Maghreb Union has regained its natural place within the eight African regional groups and has been fully integrated into all African structures and institutions, we have seized the opportunities (…) to bring together the decision – by forming executive councils of heads of state or Maghreb foreign ministers, without ever losing hope of achieving the unanimity necessary to achieve these objectives,” Taieb Baccouche said in a statement.
“While we had advised the Tunisian side to take a reconciliation initiative following the severance of diplomatic relations between Algeria and Morocco (…) we are witnessing with regret and bitterness another lost meeting on the occasion of the TICAD,” he laments. The AMU secretary general said he was “surprised by a new crisis in relations between Tunisia and Morocco”. “The relationship is going through an ordeal which adds to those experienced by the Greater Maghreb,” he adds.
The AMU secretary general called in particular to draw up a peace plan in Libya, to organize bilateral meetings to solve the problems.
We hope that this will contribute to the development of joint Maghreb action and that the latest acute crises will mark the beginnings of salvation, the return of fraternity, harmony and complementarity in accordance with the objectives set since the founding of the Union. Maghreb on February 17, 1989, in Marrakech,” he concludes.
