Following the ongoing tension between Morocco and Tunisia, Morocco’s Royal Karate Federation has canceled its participation in a karate championship that will take place in Tunisia this September.
The federation announced that the Moroccan team will not take part in the championship in a press release on Saturday.
This comes after Morocco’s withdrawal from participating in the 8th TICAD Summit, following Tunisia’s decision to invite separatist Polisario Front members to the forum.
Moroccan political parties expressed their distaste for Tunisia’s behavior, describing it as “hostile” and calling it “a hard hit in historical relations between the two countries”.
In a press release, the National Rally of Independents (RNI) strongly denounced “the hostile approach taken by Tunisian President Kais Saied, in receiving the head of the fictitious entity”.
The Justice and Development Party (PJD), considers the Tunisian president’s act “dangerous of an unprecedented development», as read in a press release signed by Reda Ben Khaldoune, president of the international relations committee within the Islamist party and ex-ambassador of Morocco in Malaysia.
Nabil Benabdellahn president of the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS), said that it is an “immoral behavior which represents a threat to the territorial unity of Morocco and the patriotic feelings of all the Moroccan people”.
Both Morocco and Tunisia recalled their ambassadors.
After Tunisia did so, the country assured that it had “maintained its total neutrality on the question of Western Sahara with respect for international legitimacy”, advocating for a peaceful solution that will be acceptable to all.
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