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Morocco’s decision to resume relations with Israel was welcomed by Paris, and regarding the US decision on Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara, French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Mol said her country “supports a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution.” At the same time, the Sahrawis of the Polisario Front promised to continue fighting in Western Sahara, according to statements by the Sahrawi official Mohamed Salem Ould Salek.
On Friday, Paris welcomed the decision to “resume diplomatic relations” between Israel and Morocco and said that Conflict in Western Sahara The stakes for normalization have been “prolonged” and a “just and lasting” solution must be found.
While promising Sahrawi vassals For the Polisario To continue the fight in Western Sahara, a day after the decision of US President Donald Trump to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over this disputed region, Sahrawi official Mohamed Salem Ould Salek told AFP.
A just political solution
“The conflict in Western Sahara is prolonged and represents a constant risk of tension erupting,” announced a spokeswoman for the French Foreign Ministry, at a time when the outgoing US President Donald Trump recognized sovereignty. of Morocco over this disputed region in exchange for the normalization of Moroccan relations with Israel.
Both Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front separatists claim sovereignty over this former Spanish colony. And the United Nations-sponsored negotiations on this conflict reached a dead end.
French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Mol added that France “supports a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution that is consistent with the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council.”
And he stressed that “in light of this vision, France considers the Moroccan autonomy plan as the basis for serious and credible talks.”
Morocco considers Western Sahara an integral part of its national territory and controls 80 percent of its 266,000 square kilometers of land, and proposes to grant it extended autonomy under its sovereignty, while the Polisario Front has been calling for years for a self-determination referendum. under a ceasefire agreement signed in 2005. 1991 sponsored by the United Nations after a war that lasted 16 years.
‘The fight will continue’
“The SADR Foreign Minister,” declared the Polisario Front in 1976, adding that “the fighting will continue until the complete withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation forces.”
The Polisario has reported daily exchanges of gunfire along the berm that separates the two camps since the ceasefire agreement was broken on November 13, after it had been in force since 1991.
The Sahrawi Defense Ministry confirmed in a statement published on Friday morning that the Sahrawi People’s Liberation Army (PLA) continued its attacks on Thursday “against Moroccan military bases behind the ‘wall of shame.”
The statement indicated that “enemy sites” were bombed in the Mahbas, Hawza, Akweerah and Wail Abil sectors. It was not possible to verify these statements.
Ould Salek reiterated that the US decision was “invalid” and stressed that the international community “does not recognize or will recognize any Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara.”
He stressed that sovereignty over Western Sahara “belongs exclusively to the Saharawi people.”
Algerian silence
Although Algeria has not yet commented on the US statement, the Polisario Front condemned “in the strongest terms the admission of current US President Donald Trump to Morocco of what it does not have for those who do not deserve it.”
The Polisario reports daily of an exchange of gunfire along the wall that separates the two camps since the ceasefire collapsed on November 13.
France 24 / AFP
