Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra has been quoted as saying that the Executive Council of the African Union will study and decide the issue of whether to grant the Israeli nation the entity the status of an observer member in the union during its next African summit scheduled for next February 2022.
The decision to table the matter during the African summit was suggested by Algeria and Nigeria and supported by the majority of the African foreign ministers.
At a meeting of the Executive Council in its 39th regular session, held last Thursday and Friday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, in the presence of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Political Affairs, Mohamed Khalil Issa affirmed that the foreign ministers have agreed to present the issue to the summit of the heads of state of the Union.
He also expressed hope that the summit would be a correct beginning for an Africa worthy of its history and not support an irreversible division in the future.
The group of African countries, including Libya, had rejected in a statement last August the decision of the African Union Commission to grant the Israeli entity an observer member for not consulting with it and demanded its cancellation.
