The Colombian Senate has expressed its categorical rejection and total disagreement with the decision of President Gustavo Petro to re-establish diplomatic relations with “SADR”, reported MAP on Wednesday.
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) goes against the fundamental principles of Colombian diplomacy, added the same source.
This position of the Senate was expressed through a reached motion by a majority of 62 out of 108 senators, representing the most important Colombian political parties, including some from the ruling coalition.
“The motion was read on Tuesday in the plenary session of the upper house, the most powerful in the Parliament by the Secretary General of the Senate, Gregorio Eljach Pacheco, and was broadcast live on the Senate television channel, as well as on the Congress’ social networks,” specified the same source.
“The undersigned Senators of the Republic of Colombia express our categorical rejection and total disagreement with the position adopted on 10 August 2022 by the Ministry of Foreign Relations, which reaffirmed the validity of a joint communique signed on 27 February 1985, with the self-proclaimed ‘Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)’,” the motion reads.
“The decision made by the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs last August, which goes against one of the fundamental principles of Colombian diplomacy, namely non-interference in the internal affairs of countries,” said the motion’s signatories, warning that, “it has profound consequences and has ruined the relations that we have always maintained and wish to continue to have with Morocco.”
Senator Germán Alcides Blanco Alvarez, a member of the ruling Conservative Party and former president of the House of Representatives, introduced the motion, in which senators strongly condemned the decision “to re-establish diplomatic relations with this separatist movement that calls itself a country but is not recognized by the vast majority of countries in the world, let alone the United Nations.”
Representatives from nine Senate parties of all ideological stripes emphasized that “this decision, which concerns the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Morocco, a country with which Colombia has had diplomatic relations for more than 43 years, is paradoxical,” given that “by unearthing a resolution dating back more than 37 years, it is clear that this decision was made without evaluating the current situation, nor measuring the consequences, destabilizing the country.”
The Kingdom is “a great friend and ally, which represents for Colombia a strategic and preferred partner in Africa and the Arab world, in terms of its leadership and recognition at the regional, continental, and global levels,” according to the motion, which was presented to the Moroccan Ambassador in Colombia, Farida Loudaya, and will be submitted to the President of the Republic and the Ministry of Foreign Relations by the Sénat.
“Since 1985, the world has changed, as has the Sahara dispute, which took a decisive turn in 2007, when Morocco presented an initiative to negotiate an autonomous status for the Sahara region in order to break free from the current situation and resolve a nearly century-long regional dispute,” according to the same source.
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