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The Spanish parliament has just confirmed the position of the Sanchez government in favor of the autonomy plan for the settlement of the Sahara conflict, by rejecting by an overwhelming majority a draft resolution hostile to Morocco, presented by some small independentist parties. Spain’s Congress of Deputies, the lower house of Parliament, confirmed, Thursday evening, […]
Morocco has reiterated its position to the UN envoy Staffan de Mistura that autonomy under the kingdom’s sovereignty and territorial integrity is the only solution to the regional conflict over the Sahara. This came during talks on July 5 in Rabat between Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and de Mistura. “The Moroccan delegation also expressed Morocco’s […]
Singaporean Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan on Monday commended Morocco for the “serious” and “credible” efforts it makes in the framework of the autonomy plan to resolve the Sahara issue. The Singaporean minister’s statement came during a joint press briefing with his Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita, after their talks in Rabat. The head of […]
The Spanish government’s support to Morocco’s autonomy plan for the Sahara is a “good decision for Spain and for the whole Mediterranean region”, stressed Spanish Defense Minister María Margarita Robles on Tuesday. By supporting autonomy as “the most serious, realistic and credible basis” for resolving this dispute, the government “has taken the best decision for […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, said, Monday in New York, that Algeria kidnaps and tortures the sequestered populations of the Tindouf camps, which it is supposed to protect. “The United Nations Human Rights Committee has just published today a statement on a Sahrawi whom you abducted, kidnapped and tortured. He has […]
Foreign minister of Guatemala, Mario Adolfo Bucaro Flores has welcomed Morocco’s efforts seeking to reach a political solution in the Sahara, saying the autonomy initiative presented by Rabat in 2007 is a realistic and credible step forward to resolving the conflict for the sake of stability, security and integration of the Maghreb region. “Guatemala takes […]
The autonomy plan put forward by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara conflict continues to gain growing international support, being described as the best and pragmatic solution, while the armed Polisario militias continue to receive global condemnation for serious human rights violations and crimes committed in the Tindouf camps in Algeria. Addressing members […]
Liberia’s Foreign Minister, Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, has reaffirmed his country’s strong support to the autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara issue, saying that the Moroccan proposition, which is backed by the UN, is the only feasible and realistic solution. Speaking to journalists following a meeting in Rabat with Moroccan […]
Former UK Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox, member of the ruling conservative party, has described the autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara regional conflict as “the only serious and viable proposition”. In a statement to local news website le 360.ma on the sidelines of his ongoing work […]
Burkina Faso has reiterated its support for the territorial integrity and national unity of Morocco as well as for the Moroccan autonomy plan, “which constitutes the only credible and realistic solution” for the settlement of the dispute over the Sahara. This came in a joint statement made public following talks the Burkinabe Foreign Minister, Mrs. […]