Japan reiterates Polisario has no place in TICAD summit

Japan reiterated that it does not recognize the Polisario’s self-declared SADR entity and that it deals with UN member states only.

The position was reaffirmed by Japan’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fukazawa Yoichi, at a TICAD plenary summit.

A day earlier, a Moroccan diplomat was violently attacked by a senior Algerian diplomat as he tried to remove a country name plate of the Sadr entity that was smuggled into a ministerial meeting by a Polisario agent operating under Algerian diplomatic cover.

Japan made it clear that it only invited UN member states within the African Union, dealing another blow to the Algerian diplomacy which pulls the strings of the Polisario separatists.

The violent reaction speaks of the state of disarray within the Algerian regime, which made the Polisario’s separatist chimera a sacred cause.

The rogue attitude of the Algerian diplomat is in fact reflective of an Algerian diplomacy in disarray, after a series of diplomatic blows it has ensued on the Sahara issue.

Last month, the African Union decided with a majority of votes that only UN member states shall take part in its meetings or summits with international partners, a position that has irked Algeria.

Russia, South Korea and Saudi Arabia, to mention but a few, have rejected the participation of the Polisario separatists in their summits with African leaders.

Under pressure from Algeria, the African Union admitted in the 1980s the Polisario, an entity lacking all the attributes of a state, within a context marked by ideological fervor that is now anachronistic.

So far 37 African states back Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara territory where 40% of African states have already opened consulates.

Morocco has always stressed that the membership of Algeria’s Polisario proxies within the African Union stands is an aberration in total disregard for the UN process and for Morocco’s historical rights as a country that was divided by two colonial powers.