Algeria Denounces African Union Granting Tel Aviv ‘Observer’ Status

By Staff, Agencies

Algiers on Sunday condemned the decision of the African Union to grant the Zionist occupation entity an ‘observer’ status to the pan-African organization.

“Taken without the benefit of broad prior consultations with all member states, this decision has neither the vocation nor the capacity to legitimize the practices and behaviors of the said new observer which are totally incompatible with the values, principles, and objectives enshrined in the ‘Constitutive Act of the African Union,” said the Algerian Foreign Ministry in a statement.

“The recent decision of the President of the Commission of the African Union [AU] to welcome a new observer who falls under its administrative prerogatives is not likely to alter the constant and active support of the continental organization to the just Palestinian cause,” declared the press release relayed by the official APS agency.

The Tel Aviv regime on Thursday obtained observer status at the AU, which it has been demanding for years.

The Tel Aviv regime, which maintains relations with 46 African countries, had ‘observer’ status within the Organization of African Unity [OAU] until its transformation into the African Union in 2002.