These reactions have emphasized the puppet character of the “sadr” and are pleased that the name of their country is no longer “associated with a radicalized entity whose leaders had threatened to perpetrate terrorist actions against Morocco, Spain and France.”
Thus, the former Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luis Gonzales Posada, described as “positive, reasonable and wise” the decision of his country to break ties with the polisario, castigating the “unusual” character of the initiative taken by the former Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, “Oscar Maurtua, to establish diplomatic relations with a non-existent republic, not recognized by the UN,” nor by any Arab country, except Algeria.
The former minister explained that this decision was taken “under pressure from the Forums of São Paolo and Puebla (grouping the Latin American left-wing parties) as well as by the chavist bloc led by Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
In an article published by the local newspaper La Razón, the former minister added that Maurtua should “resign from his (current) position as ambassador in Madrid because of the questions” raised by his decision to re-establish relations with the so-called “sadr”.
For his part, MP Ernesto Bustamante of the party “Fuerza Popular” and former president of the commission of foreign relations of the Peruvian Congress, indicated that “Peru could not remain associated with a radical entity, whose leaders have threatened Morocco, Spain and France with terrorist actions.”
His colleague in the Congress, MP Roselli Amuruz of the Party “Avanza País”, estimated that this decision of the government of Peru is in line with the “defense of the integrity of all the Peruvians, the fight against terrorism and the good relations with the democratic countries.”
For his part, Ricardo Sánchez Serra, president of the Association of Peruvian Journalists, described as “fair and reasonable” the decision to withdraw recognition of the “rasd” which is an “appendage of Algeria.”
Sánchez Serra, who had visited in the past the refugee camps of Tindouf, denounced the blackout that surrounds these camps where “the population is sequestered and where the UN can not perform any census of refugees.” In addition, “the interests of Peru are above the romanticism of the Cold War.”
On Thursday, the Republic of Peru had decided to “withdraw recognition of the so-called “sadr” and break all relations with this entity”, while supporting the autonomy plan for the Moroccan Sahara.
The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs also supported “the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Morocco, its national sovereignty, as well as the autonomy plan related to this regional dispute” around the Moroccan Sahara.
In reaction to this announcement, Morocco welcomed the Peruvian support for the territorial integrity of the Kingdom and its autonomy initiative for the Sahara, saying that this decision “opens a new page in relations with this friendly country.
It finally crowns a dynamic of successive withdrawals of recognition of this puppet entity, which 84% of the 193 member countries of the United Nations do not recognize.
