Pak Sahafat – The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa considered the joining of the Zionist regime to the African Union as an insult to the text and spirit of the Union’s charter and emphasized that this regime has no place in this union.
According to Pak Sahafat News Agency’s report, “Naldi Pandor” added in an interview with Palestine TV that “We are witnessing the strongest solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people in South Africa and we have a great commitment to the Palestinian cause to ensure that this solidarity is not only in the public sphere in South Africa, but across the entire African continent.”
This South African official emphasized that his country will strongly oppose the permission of the African Union to grant the observer status to the Zionist regime.
He said that the joining of the Zionist regime to the African Union “is an insult to the text and spirit of the Union’s charter, which rejects colonialism and imperialist practices and the occupation of the territories of independent countries.”
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According to Pandor, accepting this membership is a violation of human rights and an abuse of the African Union Charter because the Israeli regime is a symbol of all these problems and does not deserve to be invited as an observer member of the African Union.
The Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa pledged that his country will try to prevent the Zionist regime from obtaining observer status or any other similar position in the African Union.
He added: South Africa believes in humanitarian principles and considers the only appropriate response to such actions and requests is not to accept this membership.
This February, the African Union, at its 35th summit in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, decided on the action that was previously taken unilaterally in June 2021 by the head of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki, to grant observer status to the Israeli regime.
In this meeting, the African Union decided, while postponing the decision on granting observer status to the Israeli regime, a committee consisting of the president of Senegal and the current president of the African Union, Macky Sall, and the presidents of Algeria, South Africa, Rwanda, Congo Nigeria and Cameroon.
The Zionist regime used to be a member of the Organization of African Unity as an observer, but with the dissolution of this organization and the replacement of the African Union in 2002, it lost this status.