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The US decision to recognize Morocco’s full sovereignty over its Sahara should provide a strong impetus to efforts to find a solution to the Sahara issue under the Moroccan autonomy plan, said Erik Jansen, former head of MINURSO. “President Trump’s decision to recognize Moroccan sovereignty (over the Sahara) has provided a fundamental game-changing move by […]
The artificial dispute over the Sahara is a question of Morocco’s territorial integrity and not of decolonization, said representatives of several members of the United Nations, on the occasion of a virtual conference held to mark the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the historic resolution 1514 of the General Assembly, also known as the […]
spokesperson of the Basque Nationalist Party at the Spanish Congress of Deputies Aitor Esteban underlined Wednesday that the solution to the Sahara issue must be sought within the framework of the possible. The Polisario must understand “what is possible and what is impossible” to reach a solution to the Sahara issue, said Aitor Esteban during […]
For decades, Algeria and its creation, the Polisario, have been inflating the numbers of the people held in the South-Western Algerian camps while preventing the UN from carrying out a head-count and maintaining a media blackout on human rights there. Algeria and the Polisario speak of 165,000 people in the camps and stress on […]
The United States has decided to open a General Consulate in the Southern Moroccan city of Dakhla. This highly significant diplomatic move by a world super-power supports Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara, dealing a hard blow to the polisario separatists and their Algerian supporters. The decision was announced by US president Donald Trump in a […]
South African President and current President of the African Union (AU), Cyril Ramaphosa, on Sunday dealt a blow to the Polisario separatists when he reaffirmed the relevance of Decision 693 of the African Summit held in July 2018 in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Ramaphosa, who was speaking at the end of the 14th African Union Extraordinary […]
Morocco and Russia have reiterated the need “for all parties” to the Sahara regional conflict to respect the ceasefire and remain fully engaged in the political process. The joint stand was voiced during a telephone conversation held Thursday between Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and his Russian peer Sergei Lavrov, said a press release issued […]
Former Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki called on the Sahrawis of Tindouf to move to Morocco instead of continuing to chase an unrealizable dream, nurtured by the Algerian regime. “The declining Algerian regime sells illusions to the Sahrawis it holds as hostages in the service of a biased political choice,” said Moncef Marzouki during a recent […]
Spain has defended again the “central role” of the United Nations in settling the Moroccan Sahara issue. “The central role in the political settlement of the Sahara issue belongs to the UN,” said Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Arancha Gonzalez Laya. “In this regard, we always support the efforts of the Secretary General […]
Algerian Foreign Minister Sabri Boukadoum pinned high hopes on his recentb visit to African heavyweight Nigeria to gain some support for Algeria’s anti-Moroccan stance in support of Polisario separatism and banditry. But, he returned empty-handed save some ink on paper regarding projects to which both Nigeria and Algeria never showed genuine interest. Pro-regime Algerian media […]