EU Spokesman Reaffirms That Neither the European Union Nor Any of Its Member States Recognise the Pseudo “Rasd"

Brussels, June 28 (TNA) The European Union (EU) foreign affairs spokesman reaffirmed on Friday that "neither the EU nor any of its Member States recognise the ‘rasd’. This statement came at a time when some separatist relays were over-communicating about the European Union-African Union ministerial meeting being held this Friday in Rome.

Recalling that the EU-AU ministerial meetings are co-chaired and co-organised by the EU and the AU, the EU foreign affairs spokesman said that ‘the agreed modalities provide that each party is responsible for inviting its members’.

He therefore attributed the presence of this entity at the EU-AU ministerial meeting to the African Union, denying that the EU had invited the pseudo “Rasd" to the said meeting. ‘Invitations to African members are sent by the African Union’, he said.

In this context, the spokesman insisted that ‘the EU's position is well known: neither the EU nor any of its Member States recognises the Rasd’ and that the presence of this entity at the EU-African Union ministerial meeting has no influence on this position’.