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Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita conferred Sunday in New York, on the sidelines of UN General Assembly, with UN Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura ahead of the UN Security Council meeting on the issue in October. The meeting, attended by Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, was an opportunity to highlight the international […]
Foreign Minister of Austria Alexander Schallenberg has reaffirmed his country’s steadfast support to the autonomy plan presented by Morocco in 2007, describing the plan as a “very serious and credible” contribution to the UN-led process engaged for reaching a lasting solution to the Sahara regional issue. Mr. Schallenberg renewed Vienna’s backing during a meeting held […]
The Netherlands reiterated, Thursday in New York, its support for the Moroccan autonomy plan, deeming it a “very serious and credible” contribution to the political process led by the United Nations. “The Netherlands considers the autonomy plan, presented by Morocco in 2007, as a very serious and credible contribution to the political process led by […]
Denmark has joined a long list of influential countries to back Morocco’s autonomy plan as a final solution to the Sahara issue. Denmark said the autonomy proposal submitted by Morocco in 2007 is a “serious and credible contribution to the ongoing UN efforts.” This came in a joint statement following talks in New York between […]
The Commonwealth of Dominica and the Republic of Sudan have expressed at the United Nations steadfast support for Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Saharan territory, dealing a hard blow to the enemies of Morocco’s territorial integrity. The supportive stands were voiced during separate meetings held Tuesday in New York by Moroccan foreign Nasser Bourita […]
French magazine ‘Jeune Afrique’ highlighted the diplomatic impetus surrounding the opening of consulates by several countries in Morocco’s southern provinces, echoing the inauguration of Chad’s consulate general in Dakhla on August 14. “Chad is the latest country to have joined this growing list,” the Paris-based magazine recalls, noting that the opening of the Chadian consulate […]
Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador Omar Hilale, sent a response letter to the President and members of the Security Council following the provocative and misleading statement of the Secretary General of the ministry of Foreign Affairs of Algeria regarding the Moroccan Sahara issue during a meeting of the Council, stressing that the Algerian […]
As the autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty gains support by global powers to end the Sahara conflict, Algeria’s reactions confirm its standing as the real party to the conflict and reduce the Polisario to its actual status of a proxy militia. Prior to France making its new clear-cut position in support of Morocco’s autonomy plan […]
French unambiguous support for Morocco’s autonomy plan and its sovereignty over the Sahara territory would reverberate across Europe, where many countries would follow suit, former French ambassador to Algeria Xavier Driencourt said. France, a permanent security council member, has a significant influence that could encourage other nations, particularly European ones, to reconsider their position on […]
At the UN C24 forum, Morocco has received steady support in recent years despite Algeria’s attempt to use the UN forum to serve its separatist agenda in southern Morocco, or the Sahara. Morocco was the first to list the Sahara issue in the UN’s Special Committee on Decolonization, known as C24, in 1975 when it […]