Morocco celebrates 47th anniversary of the Green March, token of attachment to territorial integrity

Morocco celebrates this Sunday Nov.6, 2022 the 47th anniversary of the Green March epic, a token of Moroccans’ unwavering attachment to the territorial integrity and unity of their country.

The Moroccan people and their King are therefore commemorating the anniversary of this epic, which is, and will remain, an unprecedented model of commitment and unfailing patriotic attachment to the homeland.

This year, Morocco and its people are celebrating the 47th anniversary of the Green March that set in motion an unprecedented dynamic in a context marked by strong Moroccan diplomatic breakthroughs and gains on the Sahara issue.

As explained by political analyst, Driss Aissaoui, in an interview with the news outlet MoroccoLatestNews, this celebration provides an opportunity to highlight all the efforts made by the Kingdom to preserve its territorial integrity and the advances scored at the diplomatic level.

In this vein, he recalled the recognition of the Moroccanness of the Saharan provinces by Donald Trump’s administration, a move that was followed by many other countries. Donald Trump’s gesture was innovative, and at the same time very special, as it enabled Morocco to move forward in terms of consolidating this territorial integrity, the analyst said.

The analyst then explained the genesis of the Sahara conflict and how it was artificially nurtured by Algeria and Mouamar Khaddafi’s Libya after the departure of Spain in 1975, through the creation of a separatist front.

Since then, the separatists of the polisario, supported, trained and armed by Algeria, have been involved in all kinds of trafficking and connivance with terror groups, leading a vain fight to impose a puppet entity, called the SADR.

Meanwhile, Morocco set itself to develop the southern provinces at the economic and social level and continued its efforts to serve its cause and sovereignty, particularly within the framework of the mechanisms provided by the United Nations. These efforts were crowned by the latest resolutions of the UN Security Council recognizing the pre-eminence of the Autonomy Plan as a serious basis for the settlement of the Sahara issue.

The Kingdom put on the table the Autonomy Plan in 2007, allowing the Sahrawi populations to manage their own affairs, under Moroccan sovereignty. An initiative that has been applauded by the international community as a realistic and workable solution to resolve this artificial conflict.

Today, nearly 30 countries have opened diplomatic representations in the southern provinces, in Dakhla and Laâyoune, a diplomatic breakthrough that also opens up economic prospects, investment opportunities and consolidation of the Moroccan Sahara as a gate to the rest of Africa.

So, if the epic of the Green March was a model of solidarity, commitment and citizenship, all developments that followed showed that Morocco remains committed to its values, firmly attached to its principles, and dedicated to ensure the country’s progress and prosperity.