The Tunisian president receives the deputy chairperson of the African Union Commission and affirms support for continental cooperation.

Written by: Mohammed Omran

Received President of the Tunisian Republic Kais Saied appeared today, Friday, June 19, at the Carthage Palace, with Salma Malika Haddadi, Vice-President of the African Union Commission.

This meeting was an opportunity for the President to renew his congratulations to sisterly Algeria on the diplomatic success achieved by Salma Haddadi in winning this high position in the African Union, wishing her further success and good fortune.

The President stressed the importance of working towards developing all structures of the African Union to enhance cooperation and joint African action, calling, in this context, for the adoption of new approaches and the development of new concepts, because the prevailing concepts have remained rigid, while human thought is witnessing profound and unprecedented developments.

The President also stressed Tunisia’s firm commitment to the principles upon which the Organization of African Unity was founded and which was replaced by the African Union, noting that the dream of unity and union will continue to haunt the African peoples despite all the upheavals, conflicts and plundering of wealth that many regions have experienced and continue to experience.

He explained that when the will is united and firm, what is a dream or what is considered to be among the dreams can turn into reality, stressing that Africans are capable, if they unite, of shaping a new future not only for Africa but for all of humanity.

In the same context, the President stressed that many African countries have witnessed and continue to witness paradoxes that must stop. As much as they are rich in resources, they have been and continue to be victims of civil wars, in addition to all forms of misery, disease, epidemics and deprivation.

The President pointed out that Tunisia, proud of its African identity, has called and continues to call for Africa to be for Africans, while dismantling the irregular migration networks that traffic in human beings and human organs.

The President concluded by saying that for centuries we have been victims and it is time for us to contribute to building a new future under a new ideology that breaks with the past and its shackles and liberates Africans, and more than that, enables them to contribute to building a new world in which freedom and justice are achieved and wars of extermination, displacement and forced migration are absent, and rights remain in place and will not be lost with the passage of time, the first of which is the Palestinian right to establish its fully sovereign independent state on all of the land of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.