The Algerian regime and its affiliated media have once again used the most recent decision of the Court of the arbitral Board Court Court Court Court Court Court Media (TAS) to spread misleading claims to support the decades of war in Algeria against the territorial integrity of the Morocco.
After the Algerian regime in the attempts to achieve both Africa and the victory of TAS Annul Maroccan Club RS Berkanes against Algeria’s USM -Alger, the Algerian regime is now visibly turning to its usual tactics of the Casting doubt at the decision of the TAS by attributing it to a kind of geopolitical game behind the real football game in the pitch.
The first failed Stone Algeria threw this matter to cancel the victory of RS Berkane during the first stage of the CAF Confederation Cup of the 2023-2024 season. This first phase in particular included maneuvers who tried to humiliate the Moroccan Club at Houari Boudia in Algiers by confiscating their jerseys just because they bore a map of Morocco with the country’s southern provinces.
Imagine you are stopped at an airport because your jersey, your cup of tea or your passport keeps your country’s flag or map. The display of a full map of Morocco is prohibited in Algeria because Algiers supports, financed and organized the Polisario front, an increasingly emitted and isolated separatist group that claims independence in the Western Sahara region in the south of Morocco.
And when USM Alger traveled to Morocco in April last year to play the second leg, the game was finally canceled after the Algerians boycotted it for the same reason. Even on Moroccan soil, the Algerian regime USM asked the match to boycott as long as the jerseys of their Moroccan opponents wore the full map of Morocco.
CAF, the leading position of African football finally – and of course – punished the boycotting Algerian side by declaring RS Berkane as the winner of both legs. The judgment of TAS has confirmed the compliance with the Morocco Football Federation (FRMF) and RS Berkane with all regulations in accordance with the principle Res Judicata in the arbitration process Affairs that determine that the decision is final and is binding for all parties involved.
The most important thing is that the decision of TAS does not contain any sanctions against RS BERKANE or the Moroccan Federation and expressly recognizes the compliance with the regulations of the Moroccan club on the regulations of both the Confederation of African football and FIFA.
In fact, the decision of the TAS court on Wednesday referred to the CAF regulations, which indicate that all devices, including the jerseys of the players, “should not convey any political content”. It noticed the respect and implementation of the “duty of political neutrality” and pointed out the question of western Sahara as an unresolved dispute.
This part of the decision of the court was strongly taken up by Algeria’s regime and his affiliated media, which normally celebrate all the actions and claims that Algiers’ position in the Sahara also advocate a distance, regardless of whether the party or the person who uses the claim has a legal legitimacy to decide on the status of the Sahara question.
In this case, TAS is an international sports court who has no legitimacy to answer political matters. As a former TAS case, CAS 2018/A/5800 and CAS 2017/A/3910The Court of Justice expressly shows no capacity to disturb any positions or to be influenced by political considerations.
Background of the diplomatic defeats of Algeria
The topic of Western Sahara is managed exclusively by the UN, which is recognized by the international community, in order to build the decades of territorial disputes. As part of his exclusive mandate to solve this persistent problem, the UN Security Council has tried to bring all parties to the conflict in recent years in order to assume their responsibility and to comply with the conditions of a political solution acceptable for both sides.
The UN Security Council was the exclusive institution that manages the dispute, with international organizations and countries often emphasizing the central way of the non-managed political process in order to find an agreed political decision of the continuing conflict.
After Algeria had released the repeated demands of the UN claim after respecting the ongoing political process of the UN, Algeria has increasingly turned to politicize sport in order to desperate to score the territorial integrity of Morocco in a frustrating manner on the diplomatic field.
In his well-documented aversion to assuming his responsibility in the Sahara dispute, the Algerian regime has particularly refused to take part in non-sponsored circular discussions, which the UN and its most crucial job-naming and the general secretariat have described as an essential stage for the success of the UN-led political process.
It was only last October that the resolution 2756 on the Sahara repeated the demands for Algeria to commit to the unnoticed political process and identified the North African country as a full party for the Sahara dispute.
However, it is not surprising that Algeria has pulled his feet again in Algeria and rejected the calls of the UN and claims to be a mere observer and a “concerned neighbor” who supports the “Sahrawi fight for self-determination”. It is the main sponsor, promoter and enabler of the impossible state assets of the Polisario.
As part of his strategy to prevent Morocco from becoming Hegemon in the Maghreb, Algeria has made it a doctrine to undermine the territorial integrity of the kingdom by financing a separatist movement in southern Morocco. Over the years, the successive Algerian governments have invested billions of dollars in the support of Polisarios striving to challenge the sovereignty of Morocco about the western Sahara region, a historical fact that the first generation of Algerian nationalists previously accepted and promised to maintain.
Despite the relentless pro-polisario lobby work in Algeria and diplomatic and political maneuvers behind the scenes, the position of the western Sahara in Morocco has achieved historical diplomatic breakthroughs in the past two decades. Since 2007 the UN Security Council has consistently supported Morocco’s Autonomy plan As the most serious and credible route to a permanent solution to the Sahara dispute.
And beyond the firm recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty from decisive countries FrancePresent SpainPresent and the USOver 100 nations now support the Moroccan position and consider the kingdom’s autonomy plan as the most viable political solution to end the ongoing Sahara dispute.
Since this international dynamic is deepened, with over 20 European countries recently gathered The autonomy plan, at least 30 countries that opened consulates in the southern Moroccan cities of Dakhla and Laayoune, and the majority of the members of the African Union now Support Morocco’s position, experts are mostly agreed that it is only a matter of time before Morocco can raise the necessary political support in order to switch off the Polisario from the African Union.
“Algeria’s celebrations for the TAS decision are a ventilation of the diplomatic defeats that the country has accumulated on continental and global level,” said a source compared to the Morocco world news (MWN) about the condition of anonymity.
The affair of RS Berkane against USM Alger is also not a legal matter, but rather reflects the continuing hostility of Algeria compared to Morocco, emphasized the source.
“This is not a legal case; Rather, it is a political break between the two countries, which from Algeria’s five decades long efforts to solve Morocco attempts to hinder the dispute, “said the source, stating that” regardless of Algeria’s actions, it remains reality that they have lost the diplomatic initiatives in recent years. Council from expressly asked to participate in the political process as a direct party for the dispute.
“Morocco has already won it Sahara caseIf Spain and Algeria did not allow an independent state to create in the Sahara, ”added the source.
Clear interference
Oualid Kebir, an Algerian political analyst, repeated the same feeling in an explanation of MWN and found that RS Berkane is not the only club that inserts symbols or references into her jerseys.
“Algeria’s regime and its affiliated media have ignored that the TAS decision has rejected the appeals that the victory of RS Berkanes announces,” said Kebir, emphasizing that the decision that RS BERKANE does not provide sanctions against Rberkane is already a further victory.
Kebir also called on the court’s attempt, although he had decided in favor of RS Berkane to interfere with the restless water of decades of politics about the status of western Sahara region.
“For a club or a team, a jersey can reflect a feeling of nationalism and patriotism. A similar case occurred when a Moroccan and Algerian team met in a handball game when the Moroccan team wore a similar jersey and did nothing similar at that time, ”said Kebir, stating that the ongoing hostility is part of a war media campaign for Morocco and its interests.
This entire Post-Tas spectacle, which is orchestrated by the Algerian regime and the media, reflects Algeria’s despair, since it is based on the politicalization of sports to mask its rising and increasingly humiliating diplomatic setbacks, Kebir concluded.
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