Africa-Press – Angola. The president of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, declared himself, this Wednesday, in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), upset with the degradation of the international situation in recent times , in which violence prevails as a means of resolving conflicts.
Moussa Mahamat was speaking at the opening of the 44th ordinary session of the AU Executive Council, dedicated to preparing the agenda for the 37th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the continental organization, in which Angola participates with a delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António.
According to the Chadian diplomat serving the AU, the African and international situation continues, day after day, “to increase our concerns, our agonies and our bitterness”.
In this regard, he questioned whether violence, in its most barbaric forms, is definitively establishing itself as the only means of resolving conflicts.
He considered it paradoxical and “deeply shocking” that the use of blind violence is accepted in silence and “with the amnesia of almost all the great powers in the world”.
For the continental official, the authors of such serious denials display their crimes with condescension and disregard for the minimum requirements of International Law and International Humanitarian Law.
He exemplified that the suffering of the Palestinian people, deprived of their fundamental rights to freedom and the establishment of a viable and sovereign State, “is worsened, before our eyes, by a war of extermination, unnamed in history”.
In the early hours of this war and the unspeakable atrocities associated with it, he recalled, “we called for the cessation of hostilities, the release of all hostages and prisoners and a resolute commitment to a political solution, based on the principle of two states”.
Regarding the latter, he clarified that it refers to the States of Israel and Palestine, living in peace and in respect for International Law and in the full security of the people on both sides and the entire region.
Peace and security are only possible with justice and the recognition of everyone’s fundamental rights, he said, welcoming the decision of the International Court of Justice and the “firm commitment of the Republic of South Africa” on the situation in Gaza.
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