MEDI1TV Afrique : LE GRAND JOURNAL MIDI - 15/10/2024
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00:00It's time for the big news of the afternoon, welcome to you, we start right away with the headlines.
00:20Morocco offers new support to the members of the 4th Commission of the UN General Assembly.
00:27Jordan, Qatar and Guatemala have reaffirmed their support for national sovereignty and territorial integrity of the kingdom.
00:36The UN is calling for a quick and independent investigation on the Israeli strike that killed 22 people in Lebanon, an attack carried out yesterday in the north of the Cedro country.
00:50The South Korean army announces that it has fired response shots on its own territory after the destruction by North Korea of roads connecting the two enemy countries.
01:04Jordan reiterated yesterday in New York its support for national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Morocco while congratulating itself on the autonomy plan presented by the kingdom to definitively resolve the regional difference around the Sahara.
01:27Jordanian representative Ahmed Samir Hashbashne expressed himself in front of the members of the 4th Commission of the UN General Assembly, a support also expressed by Guatemala.
01:40The representative of Qatar expressed his support for his country to the efforts of the UN Secretary General to facilitate the achievement of a sustainable political solution and compromise in the framework of the process under the aegis of the United Nations in respect of the sovereignty of Morocco and its territorial integrity.
02:02The representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy reaffirmed the immense value that the European Union grants to strategic partnerships with Morocco.
02:19The 27 countries want to deepen the partnership linking Morocco and the EU, a long-term partnership, very dense, and deepened, said Josep Borrell, who presented the conclusions of the Council of Foreign Affairs held in Luxembourg yesterday.
02:49The UN is calling for a quick, independent and in-depth investigation of the strike that Israel carried out in the north of Lebanon, a strike that killed 22 people in the Christian village of Aïto, 12 women and 2 children were killed during the bombing of a four-story residential building.
03:10This is what the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva said.
03:14Jérémie Lorraine mentioned real concerns about international human rights, i.e. the rights of war and the principles of distinction and proportionality.
03:24This is the first time that this village has been targeted by recent Israeli bombings, mostly directed against the regions of Hezbollah, where the Hezbollah is most implanted, i.e. in the south, east of Lebanon, as well as the southern suburbs of Beirut.
03:40The point on the situation right now on this subject of Suhail Jalil.
03:44Lebanon targeted by an Israeli strike, the south in the midst of fighting Hezbollah.
03:55The Lebanese Red Cross reported several deaths in an Israeli strike on the village of Aïto in northern Lebanon.
04:02This is the first time that this village has been targeted by recent Israeli bombings, mostly directed against the regions of Hezbollah, where the Hezbollah is most implanted, i.e. in the south, east of Lebanon, as well as the southern suburbs of Beirut.
04:15Hezbollah threatened Israel with other attacks in case of pursuit of its offensive in Lebanon after a drone strike targeting a military position in the south of Haifa, which killed four Israeli soldiers and injured more than 60 people.
04:28This is the most deadly strike in Israel since the Lebanese Shiite movement and Israel entered into open war on September 23.
04:38We are investigating how a drone infiltrated our airspace and exploded in our base.
04:45The threat of drones is something we have been facing since the beginning of the war.
04:51We are committed to providing better protection to better protect our soldiers and citizens.
04:58We are not in any case in a war against drones.
05:03We are also trying to prevent all incidents.
05:06We are asking drones to leave this area because of the danger related to the fight between al-Zahal and Hezbollah.
05:13A few days ago, we found a huge amount of weapons from Iran and Russia, brand new weapons, nothing like the arsenal we know.
05:24Since the intensification of Israeli air strikes on Lebanon, a massive exodus has begun, leading to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people to Syria.
05:34According to figures provided by the Lebanese General Security Service and relayed by the Lebanese government's crisis management unit,
05:41in the hope of finding a semblance of security, more than 400,000 people fled the conflict in Lebanon to take refuge in Syria, where the civil war has been going on since 2011.
05:50Everywhere there is fear and terror. The bombings target the residential areas of civilians.
05:57There is no political target. Children can no longer sleep in the middle of the bombings. We are so helpless.
06:04On the other hand, on Sunday, Washington announced the deployment to Israel of a high-altitude anti-missile defense system in support of their ally.
06:15Iran is said to be totally prepared to face a war, judging in addition that the inaction of the UN Security Council in Gaza and Lebanon was a disaster.
06:24And on its side, Hezbollah claims to have targeted the Tel Aviv suburb last night.
06:30These shots came the day after a drone strike by the Lebanese movement that killed four soldiers on a military base south of Haifa,
06:38the most deadly attack of the movement on Israeli soil in the course of a month of military escalation.
06:44A conflict whose regionalization is confirmed day by day.
06:51The Israeli Prime Minister said that his country would decide on its own the possible targets to strike in Iran in response to the attack on Iranian missiles.
07:02And this despite the calls of the American president to spare the oil and nuclear sites,
07:08Iran, which is said to be ready to defend itself, organized the funerals of General Abbas Nifor Lushan,
07:16killed on September 27 alongside the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli strike near Beirut.
07:23On October 1, I remind you that about 200 missiles were launched against Israel to avenge the death of the two.
07:39The UN's Blue Helmets will maintain their current position in Lebanon despite Israel's calls to move.
07:48This is what their chief, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, said.
07:51The Israeli Prime Minister claimed again yesterday that the Blue Helmets deployed in southern Lebanon
07:58withdraw from certain positions close to the border between Israel and Lebanon.
08:03Netanyahu said that it is completely false that Israeli forces are targeting the Blue Helmets.
08:10In recent days, tensions between Israel and the Blue Helmets have multiplied.
08:15Five Israeli soldiers were injured by the army.
08:19Five soldiers of the Blue Helmets were injured by the Israeli army, which earned him a lot of criticism.
08:25The Blue Helmets are deployed in southern Lebanon to tamper with Israel
08:29and to denounce shocking violations of Israel against its positions.
08:38The South Korean army has announced that it has fired response shots on its own territory.
08:45After the destruction by North Korea of the road linking the two enemy countries,
08:50the concerned areas are located south of the military demarcation line.
08:56In response to the North Korean army, which has destroyed road junctions,
09:02formerly used for cross-border exchanges with South Korea.
09:11Six months after the election of President Basirudio Maifa,
09:14the head of the Senegalese state and its Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko
09:17presented yesterday their program to develop Senegal over the next 25 years
09:22with a first quarterly phase from 2024 to 2029.
09:28This economic action plan extends until 2050.
09:32They first aim to break with underdevelopment,
09:35dependence and over-indebtedness while putting the country on the path of progress.
09:39This is the subject of Regis Moukila and Moussa Ndia.
09:43This is the beginning of a new era with the official launch of the Senegal 2050 public policy benchmark.
09:52This is the beginning of a new era with the official launch of the Senegal 2050 public policy benchmark.
09:58This development strategy on the horizon 2050
10:01is a promise of campaign held by the new Senegalese authorities.
10:05The national agenda of transformation is based on four main axes,
10:09including good governance or a competitive economy.
10:13This new national development strategy
10:16is an innovative response to the challenges of the systemic transformation of Senegal.
10:22It is based on a clear, coherent, ambitious and assumed endogenous vision.
10:29This roadmap for the next 25 years,
10:33which is the subject of a sharing today
10:36and the result of a collective reflection,
10:39is declined in a quarterly and decennial strategy.
10:42The emergence of Senegal will be marked by a significant financing
10:46of more than 18 billion EFA francs in its first quarterly phase,
10:51thus covering the period 2025 to 2029.
10:54This program will benefit from the support of the brother countries of the sub-region.
10:58Convinced that the future of our continent
11:01rests on regional integration and solidarity,
11:05Senegal will play a leading role on the African level,
11:09especially in the areas of security,
11:12technological innovation and democratic governance.
11:16This vision meets the aspirations of the Senegalese population,
11:20especially young people who are at the heart of this new project.
11:24The President of the Republic, in this vision,
11:26has just said that by 2050,
11:29it is necessary to train 5 million young technicians.
11:33And by 2029, in the next 5 years,
11:36700,000 young technicians must be trained.
11:41Making Senegal a sovereign, just and prosperous country in 25 years
11:46will go through the establishment of food sovereignty
11:50and a structured agriculture.
11:53The second element that seems important to me in agriculture
11:56is the axis they have developed on cooperatives.
11:59How to connect cooperatives at the level of the municipalities
12:02with what are called agropoles?
12:04Because agropoles are spaces of industrial transformation.
12:07But if we don't produce what we produce, we lose it.
12:10In the event of a post-harvest loss, we cannot transform.
12:13And if we don't transform, there is no industrial outcome.
12:16The ceremony was concluded by the symbolic return
12:19of the Senegal Referential 2050 to the President of the Republic
12:22by Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko.
12:24The train is now on its way to the emergency.
12:32We leave in Côte d'Ivoire with the revision of the electoral list
12:35which starts from October 19 to November 10.
12:38In front of the deputies, the President of the National Assembly
12:41has left out a probable non-re-enrollment of Laurent Gbagbo
12:45on the electoral list, a measure that would eliminate
12:48the former President of Ivory Coast.
12:50Explanations on this subject by Max Soubi and Ange-Wilfrid Mérognat.
12:54A year from the presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire,
12:57Laurent Gbagbo, already a candidate for candidacy,
13:00could see his ultimate presidential dream broken.
13:03The last outing of the President of the Independent Electoral Commission
13:06was followed by his probable re-enrollment on the electoral list.
13:10Faced with the national and international press,
13:13Justin Coné-Katina, the spokesman for his party, the PPACI, was clear.
13:17For us, the discourses that were published yesterday
13:23aim to put the trouble in the minds of Ivorians
13:27as the President of Laurent Gbagbo believes
13:30that the party's legislation has been violated.
13:33This is not true, first of all.
13:35Secondly, it does not belong to Cuba
13:37to state on the scope of the amnesty order.
13:40This is not your competence.
13:42On the question of knowledge on the PPACI,
13:44in case of invalidation of Laurent Gbagbo's candidacy,
13:47the party does not allow any flexibility.
13:51And we say it loud and clear, here, now, and in front of everyone,
13:56that the candidate of the PPACI is called Laurent Gbagbo.
14:05And we don't just say it,
14:07we intend to give all the means to apply this decision.
14:13Within the presidential majority,
14:15Ben Mehdi, this lawyer and deputy of the nation,
14:18calls on the Socialist Party to speak up.
14:21From my point of view, and without being intrusive,
14:24if the PPACI believes that Laurent Gbagbo
14:28should appear on the electoral list
14:30because he was founded to do so,
14:32it is up to them to draw the consequences
14:34and to determine themselves in a useful way.
14:37And if in the future they do not have a cause,
14:40the law offers the possibility of the contention of the electoral list.
14:43It is up to them to seize the courts,
14:46to see the courts decide.
14:48This is also the Republic.
14:50The Republica is the public thing.
14:53And the public thing cannot be combined
14:57at any time with individual private interests.
15:00In Côte d'Ivoire, the retreat of the former president of the electoral list
15:03continues to shed a lot of ink and saliva.
15:06Only 12 months from the results of the first round.
15:13It's time for the guest of the big news.
15:15We come back today on the statements of Josep Borrell,
15:18coming back on the support of the EU
15:20to the partnership with Morocco,
15:23a partnership to which the EU
15:25grants, I quote,
15:26a huge value.
15:27It is in these terms
15:28that the head of European diplomacy
15:30expressed himself at the end of the Council of Ministers
15:32of Foreign Affairs of the EU yesterday,
15:34words that come up a few days
15:36after the decision of the Court of Justice
15:38of the EU on the fishing and agricultural agreements
15:41concerning Morocco.
15:43Moustapha Tosa, journalist and editorialist,
15:45has been with us since Paris
15:47to talk about it.
15:48Hello to you.
15:50Hello.
15:52The European Union is aligning,
15:54so we see it on the position
15:56expressed by several European capitals
15:59last week,
16:00concerning the decision of the CGE,
16:02while taking action on the decision
16:04of the Court of Justice of the EU.
16:06Brussels therefore said it wanted to deepen
16:09the partnership with Rabat.
16:12What to remember from this statement
16:14of Josep Borrell?
16:15Perhaps first the choice of words,
16:17a partnership of immense value?
16:21Yes, in fact, we have the impression
16:23that the strategy of communication
16:25of the European Union is to try
16:27to raise any ambiguity
16:29that could arise here and there
16:31after the decision of the Court of Justice
16:34of the EU on the trade agreements
16:36with Morocco.
16:37It wants to raise an ambiguity.
16:39This decision has nothing to do
16:42with the strategic character of the relationship
16:44between Morocco and European countries.
16:46It has no impact on the dynamic
16:49of recognition and support
16:51that these countries of the European Union
16:53will bring to the sovereignty of Morocco
16:56on its Sahara.
16:57The words chosen by Josep Borrell
17:00are extremely significant and speaking.
17:03In terms of diplomatic language,
17:05Europe is fully committed
17:07to its partnership with Morocco.
17:09There was also something
17:11that was announced between the lines
17:13by Josep Borrell,
17:15saying that in the next few days,
17:17next week, maybe next month,
17:19there will be positive developments
17:21or evolutions in the relationship
17:23between France and the European Union.
17:25And the whole question of knowing
17:27what positive development it is,
17:29can we imagine
17:31that the 27, once reunited,
17:33could formulate a common position
17:36on the support of the whole
17:38of the European Union
17:39to the Moroccan Sahara?
17:41There is extremely significant optimism
17:44on the part of Josep Borrell
17:46in terms of the importance
17:48given to this exceptional relationship
17:51between Morocco and the European Union.
17:53So, looking at this strong statement
17:56of the head of European diplomacy,
17:58we can say today
18:01that the suspension of the Court of Justice
18:03has no vocation to question
18:06the stability of relations
18:08between the European Union
18:10and the Moroccan Sahara.
18:12Yes, and it must also be said
18:14that in this context,
18:16the suspension of the European Court of Justice
18:18has never been as much criticized,
18:20as much neglected
18:22and as much marginalized
18:24with the positions of one and the other.
18:26We had the common communication
18:28between the Council of Europe
18:30and the European Commission,
18:32von der Leyen and Josep Borrell.
18:34We have the position
18:36of a certain number of European countries
18:38in an individual way.
18:40All this to say that this judgment
18:42of the European Court of Justice
18:44has no effect
18:46on the position of these countries
18:48and the value it gives
18:50to their relationship with the Kingdom.
18:52And so this partnership
18:54will not be affected
18:56by a decision of justice
18:58taken hastily
19:00in a politician and militant way
19:02and which will be much more
19:04poured into pollution
19:06rather than having
19:08a major effect
19:10in the relationship
19:12between France and the European Union.
19:14So Josep Borrell's approach
19:16was to tell the European opinion
19:18that this decision of justice
19:20is quite minor
19:22and will not have much influence
19:24on the way and the approaches
19:26of Europeans against their relationship
19:28with Morocco.
19:30So a minor decision
19:32of this European Court of Justice,
19:34a decision that,
19:36as you just said,
19:38caused a lot of dissension
19:40within this European Union.
19:44Is it unprecedented?
19:46Is it unprecedented
19:48within this European Union?
19:52I think at this level
19:54of contradiction, yes,
19:56we can say that it is unprecedented
19:58because we cannot have
20:00on one side an European Union
20:02with the influential members
20:04of this Union who express
20:06a clear, massive support
20:08to the option of autonomy
20:10and therefore to the sovereignty
20:12of Morocco on its Sahara
20:14and to have one of the organs
20:16of this European architecture
20:18take the opposite direction
20:20and try to impose an opposite reading.
20:22Yes, there is a contradiction
20:24but it is also a good opportunity
20:26for Europeans to harmonize,
20:28to try to harmonize
20:30their positions and I believe
20:32that the contradictions that have arisen
20:34since this Court of Justice
20:36and the positions of some
20:38will inevitably
20:40impose on the European Union
20:42a harmonious posture
20:44in relation to a key issue
20:46which is the relationship
20:48with the Kingdom of Morocco.
20:50So maybe the next
20:52negotiations of these
20:54cooperation agreements
20:56and this strategic partnership
20:58between the Kingdom of Morocco
21:00would also be an opportunity
21:02for Europe to clarify its position
21:04once and for all.
21:06This is also one of the positive things
21:08announced by Borel
21:10and we are waiting for it
21:12to arrive in the next
21:14sequences to come.
21:16Well, the terms, you speak
21:18of clarification,
21:20the terms have already been
21:22very clear and very firm
21:24regarding this partnership
21:26of important
21:28range,
21:30long-term,
21:32a dense partnership.
21:34The 27 countries have
21:36expressed their commitment
21:38to strengthen and preserve
21:40this partnership in all areas.
21:42What are these areas
21:44concerned, Mustafa Tosa?
21:46The areas
21:48are in one way or another
21:50very clear. These are the economic,
21:52political, strategic areas
21:54of intelligence,
21:56of fight against terrorism,
21:58of fight against clandestine immigration.
22:00All these factors that make
22:02or give to the relationship
22:04between the European Union and Morocco
22:06this exceptional
22:08and particular character.
22:10I would also like to draw attention
22:12to the context in which
22:14this intervention of Joseph Borel,
22:16this exit of Joseph Borel
22:18came, while the neighboring
22:20country, Algeria,
22:22said not to be a partner
22:24of this crisis, but gave
22:26permission to call
22:28ambassadors of the countries that supported
22:30Morocco to teach them a lesson.
22:32So, this position of Joseph
22:34Borel, so solemn,
22:36so important, aims to
22:38send a message also to all
22:40those who doubt or
22:42who express reluctance
22:44or who express antagonisms
22:46towards Morocco, especially Algeria,
22:48a clear message. Europe
22:50on the Moroccan side,
22:52Europe intends to develop a strategic
22:54partnership with Morocco, with
22:56the whole of Morocco. They do not have
22:58an amputated Morocco of its Aryan provinces.
23:00And this message, I think it has been
23:02extremely clear and
23:04well understood by the Algerian authorities
23:06who have desperately
23:08tried to influence
23:10the ambassadors of these European countries
23:12but without any credible
23:14result.
23:16Yes, European countries
23:18who, for the most part,
23:20and of which the heavyweights of the European Union
23:22have brought their support
23:24to Morocco on this issue,
23:26starting with Spain,
23:28which Madrid even advanced,
23:30since Madrid, on the eve of the decision
23:32of the CGE,
23:34pleaded in favor of Morocco,
23:36who defended the legality of these
23:38famous agreements.
23:40What to say of this partnership
23:42that Morocco
23:44has with the different
23:46European countries
23:48and this cascade of
23:50support that was confirmed
23:52just before the
23:54declaration of Josep Borrell?
23:56Yes, it is a partnership
23:58that is extremely precious for the European Union
24:00and the European Union
24:02does not miss any opportunity to underline it.
24:04A partnership as well in
24:06the relationship of Morocco with Spain,
24:08neighboring Spain,
24:10neighboring Spain,
24:12the top Spain in Europe.
24:14It is also important with Germany,
24:16with Italy, with France,
24:18which Morocco is waiting for
24:20Emmanuel Macron's state visit
24:22at the end of this month.
24:24So all these countries cannot,
24:26on the one hand,
24:28value this partnership of exception
24:30at all levels and remain indifferent
24:32when an organ of their
24:34European architecture
24:36that has been worked on
24:38by an antagonistic lobbyist
24:40in relation to Morocco
24:42expresses a doubt
24:44or an interrogation on a question.
24:46So, in my opinion, these countries
24:48have arranged themselves
24:50to say clearly
24:52and out loud that their partnership
24:54with Morocco and their support
24:56automatically, their support for
24:58Moroccanity and sovereignty of Morocco
25:00on the Sahara is a question
25:02that we will not
25:04come back to
25:06and that has been posed as
25:08an indelible position
25:10contrary to everything that can be said
25:12by the European Court of Justice
25:14or by another organization.
25:16So it is a very important position
25:18that has been expressed by Joseph Borrell
25:20and I come back to the words,
25:22to the agenda,
25:24to the conviction
25:26that Europe cannot do without Morocco
25:28and that, in one way or another, Morocco
25:30is also in its interest to have
25:32a strategic partnership with these European countries.
25:34Thank you,
25:36Mustafa Tofa Tosa, for answering
25:38to our questions.
25:40I remind you that you are a journalist and editorialist
25:42and that you were live with us from Paris.
25:46Thank you,
25:48this is the end of this newscast.