Total recall - Moroccan diplomacy loses it
Says Morocco's state news agency, MAP:
Rabat, Dec. 19 - Morocco has decided to recall its ambassador in Senegal, Moha Ouali Tagma, for a period of three days to protest the statements made against Morocco by Jacques Baudin, member of the Senegalese socialist party, who was speaking in the name of his party.And APS, Senegal's news agency, says the same.
This is not just nationalist overreaction, it is plain lunacy. Mr. Baudin's party, the social-democratic Parti socialiste, is in opposition since seven years, and has no influence whatsoever over Senegalese foreign policy. The Dakar government of old Abdoulaye Wade is comfortably pro-Moroccan, and has been careful to do nothing that could conceivably irritate the rulers in Rabat, who he leans on as a regional ally -- and still he gets smacked with an ambassador recall for what his political rival said at a Polisario congress? Unfair!
Someone needs to explain the finer points of government-opposition dynamics to Sidna, preferably before he takes another bold stride in his democratization of Morocco.
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Now it's Senegal's turn to recall its ambassador:
"En réaction aux mesures marocaines, le Sénégal a décidé vendredi soir de rappeler son ambassadeur au Maroc pour consultation, faisant monter d’un cran la crise opposant les deux pays, suite aux déclarations de Jacques Baudin au nom du Parti socialiste sénégalais favorable au Front Polisario." (Liberte)
Heh. Well, that marks two important allies on the Sahara question that Rabat has spontaneously insulted through idiot diplomacy in less than two months -- Spain and Senegal.
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Yes, and it also makes you wonder:
why His Majesky doesn't recall his ambassador in Algiers. The Algerian officials make these kind of declarations almost daily !!
and the ambassador in South Africa, Nigeria,Angola, ......
A note: Morocco withdrew their Ambassador to South Africa in September 2004. South Africa never reciprocated and had an Ambassador until middle 2005, after which they again requested agreement for a new Ambassador. Rabat decided not to grant the agreement!
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