ALGIERS (MEMO) – African leaders will discuss revoking the Zionist regime’s Observer Status at the African Union (AU) during the bloc’s upcoming summit on 5 February.
An Algerian diplomatic source said his country’s efforts over the past months have been “successful” to include the issue of expelling the occupying regime from the African Union, on the agenda of the 35th African Summit and the Conference of African Presidents and Heads of Government being held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
“Algeria is still coordinating positions with African and Arab countries that are members of the union, to withdraw the observer status, which has been granted to Israel by a single administrative decision taken by an African Union official,” the source said.
Last August, the embassies of seven Arab countries that are members of the African Union, namely Algeria, Egypt, Comoros, Tunisia, Djibouti, Mauritania and Libya, submitted a memorandum to the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, objecting to his decision to accept the occupying regime as an observer at the union.
The members demanded the decision be put for debate, since the Zionist regime’s request was not considered according to the AU’s system, and no discussion or consultation had been raised between the bloc’s members, which “represents an unacceptable procedural and political abuse by the Chairperson of his discretionary authority”.
Meanwhile, Zionist regime officials have embarked on a campaign to discredit a UN commission formed to investigate its war on Gaza last May and the root causes of the protracted conflict in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Axios news site reported.
According to the site, the occupying regime’s foreign ministry has sent a classified cable to all Zionist diplomatic missions around the world in which it designated the commission of inquiry as its “top priority” at the UN in 2022.
Zionist regime officials fear the commission’s report; expected in June.
Last May, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva voted to form the Commission of Inquiry into the regime’s war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
For 11 days, the occupying regime launched one of its deadliest wars on the Gaza Strip, killing more than 260 Palestinians, wounding hundreds more and causing significant material damage to the already fragile infrastructure.