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Algeria expresses its “deep disapproval” of the French position on the question of Western Sahara
Western Sahara
Algeria
expresses his discontent in a press release which explains all the inconvenience for the position taken by Paris
But the sequence dampens the hopes of the Cherifian kingdom. “Morocco-France: “a failed visit” despite the promise of the French minister to ensure “personally” that “this existential question for Morocco” he said.
A statement considered timid by the Moroccans but which has still not been digested in Algeria, where the Algerian government and its head of diplomacy address a severe warning in a strong statement against Paris, Algeria does not mince its words when it comes to the Western Sahara affair and the independence of the Sahrawi people, knowing that it is the last colony in Africa occupied by Morocco.
“France for the Moroccanness of the Sahara?”
Algeria has learned with great regret and deep disapproval of the unexpected, inopportune and counterproductive decision of the French government providing unequivocal and unqualified support to the autonomy plan for Western Sahara within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad.
Furthermore, Algeria suggests that the French President could confirm the evolution of the French position on the question of Western Sahara during a visit to Morocco next December.
And perhaps even “to support the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco for the Sahara.” Algeria’s position remains the same: the independence of the Sahrawi people, and the recognition of the Sahrawi State in legality and international laws.”
Self-determination referendum:
Morocco against
Algeria expressed its discontent in a statement that explained all the inconvenience for the position taken by Paris, Western Sahara in the question is sensitive and has been parasitizing Algerian-Moroccan relations for a long time: “the new and old colonial powers, who know how to recognize each other, understand each other and help each other” A way of attacking both France and Morocco, which claims its sovereignty over this territory that the kingdom designates as its “southern provinces”, which became independent after the decision of the International Court in 1975. Morocco controls nearly 80% of the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
The Polisario Front is campaigning for a self-determination referendum to lead to the creation of a Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
Still a refugee in the Tindouf camps in western Algeria, last October, a resolution of the UN Security Council confirmed the extension of the United Nations Mission MINURSO.
Morocco has never been in favor of a self-determination referendum, moreover in a report of the United Nations commission the kingdom has an autonomy plan for Western Sahara and the objective of maintaining sovereignty over the independent territory, as it promises democratic self-management of the affairs of Western Sahara, while maintaining “its sovereign powers in the sovereign domains, Defense, external relations and constitutional and religious powers, without discrimination or exclusion, in the organs and institutions of the region.
From Marseille, Samir Sabek