Morocco calls its ambassador in Tunisia for consultations on a trip by Ghali

Aug. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Government of Morocco has called this Friday for consultations with its ambassador in Tunisia after the reception given to the leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, invited to a summit that brings together representatives of Japan with African countries.

The Tunisian president, Kais Saied, has received Ghali at the airport, in a symbolic gesture that has not taken long to generate discomfort in Rabat. “It is a serious and unprecedented act, which deeply hurts the feelings of the Moroccan people,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

This reception is added, according to Rabat, to the fact that Tunisia had already “multiplied” its “negative” positions towards Morocco, a “hostility” that it now considers proven with the “unilateral” invitation to the president of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR ).

For this reason, Morocco has given up participating in the Tokyo Summit for African Development (TICAD) and calling its ambassador in Tunisia “immediately” for consultations.

The Foreign Ministry of the Alaouite kingdom has clarified that this decision does not call into question the “strong and intact ties” between the Moroccan and Tunisian peoples, linked by “a common history and a shared destiny”.