Mauritania Opposition Seeks to Criminalize Normalization With Zionist Regime
NOUAKCHOTT (Press TV) – Mauritania’s largest opposition political party says it intends to submit a bill to parliament seeking to criminalize normalization and establishment of diplomatic relations with the Zionist regime.
"In line with our principles, values, and constitutional texts, which cite Sharia as a source of law, and fulfillment of the aspirations of Muslims to support just causes of nations, especially the issue of al-Aqsa [Mosque] and the Palestinian cause, we highly demand the enactment of a law to criminalize normalization [of relations with the Zionist regime], and we declare our full readiness to do whatever necessary for such an honorable purpose,” the National Rally for Reform and Development said in a statement.
The party then called on all Mauritanian parliamentary factions and political movements to throw their weight behind the initiative, saying the bid preserves public dignity and is in line with attempts to stand against the Zionist regime’s wills.
The development comes as three other opposition parties, namely Union of the Forces of Progress, the People’s Progressive Alliance and the Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal, called last week for legislation against normalization of ties with the occupying regime.
Mauritania fully severed diplomatic ties with Israel in March 2010,
The northwest African country had expelled representatives from the occupying regime and closed the regime’s embassy in Nouakchott a year earlier. The move came after it froze ties in response to Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The Mauritanian government has frequently affirmed its firm support for Palestinians and their right to establish an independent and sovereign state with al-Quds as its ‘capital’.
Last September, Mauritania’s Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a statement that his country "firmly supports the right of the Palestinian nation to an independent state with al-Quds as its capital, in accordance with the provisions of relevant United Nations resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
The so-called Arab Peace Initiative, which was proposed by Saudi Arabia and endorsed by the Arab League in 2002, calls on Israel to agree to a "two-state solution” along the 1967 lines and a "just” solution to the Palestinian refugee issue.
Morocco and the Zionist regime agreed on December 10 to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the administration of outgoing US President Donald Trump, making the North African country the fourth Arab state last year to strike a deal aimed at establishment of relations with the regime. The others were the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.
"In line with our principles, values, and constitutional texts, which cite Sharia as a source of law, and fulfillment of the aspirations of Muslims to support just causes of nations, especially the issue of al-Aqsa [Mosque] and the Palestinian cause, we highly demand the enactment of a law to criminalize normalization [of relations with the Zionist regime], and we declare our full readiness to do whatever necessary for such an honorable purpose,” the National Rally for Reform and Development said in a statement.
The party then called on all Mauritanian parliamentary factions and political movements to throw their weight behind the initiative, saying the bid preserves public dignity and is in line with attempts to stand against the Zionist regime’s wills.
The development comes as three other opposition parties, namely Union of the Forces of Progress, the People’s Progressive Alliance and the Alliance for Justice and Democracy/Movement for Renewal, called last week for legislation against normalization of ties with the occupying regime.
Mauritania fully severed diplomatic ties with Israel in March 2010,
The northwest African country had expelled representatives from the occupying regime and closed the regime’s embassy in Nouakchott a year earlier. The move came after it froze ties in response to Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip.
The Mauritanian government has frequently affirmed its firm support for Palestinians and their right to establish an independent and sovereign state with al-Quds as its ‘capital’.
Last September, Mauritania’s Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said in a statement that his country "firmly supports the right of the Palestinian nation to an independent state with al-Quds as its capital, in accordance with the provisions of relevant United Nations resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative.”
The so-called Arab Peace Initiative, which was proposed by Saudi Arabia and endorsed by the Arab League in 2002, calls on Israel to agree to a "two-state solution” along the 1967 lines and a "just” solution to the Palestinian refugee issue.
Morocco and the Zionist regime agreed on December 10 to normalize relations in a deal brokered with the help of the administration of outgoing US President Donald Trump, making the North African country the fourth Arab state last year to strike a deal aimed at establishment of relations with the regime. The others were the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Sudan.