The Sahrawi body believes the Spanish government’s actions have exacerbated “the fragile situation in North Africa”
The self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), controlled by the Polisario Front, issued a statement on Wednesday assuring that “the Spanish government’s decision will only fall back on the worsening fragile situation in North Africa”, after the Pedro Sánchez’s government will change its position on Western Sahara.
“Spain has simultaneously entered a dark tunnel marked by a fierce confrontation with Spanish national opinion and with the international community, which does not recognize Morocco as sole sovereign over Western Sahara,” the SADR said in a statement.
The President of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, defended that the Moroccan Autonomy Plan for the Sahara was “the most solid, credible and realistic basis” for solving the conflict and that is how more and more countries saw it, including France, the United States and the United States. and Germany.
The SADR has called these statements “fabricated statements and weak arguments” and has stated that Spain has agreed to “the dirty Moroccan blackmail”.
Likewise, it has stressed that “the continuation by the Spanish State of the policy aimed at evading its obligations as a governing power has failed and will inevitably lead to a continuous deterioration of the general situation at the level of bilateral relations between countries and peoples both sides of the Mediterranean, but also in terms of stability and security across the region.
“The best policy to protect the interests of Spain and all the countries of the region is one based on respect for the resolutions of international legitimacy that protect the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence, sovereignty over the land of their country ancestry, the recognition of international borders and the non-conquest of territories by force,” the SADR letter said.
The former Spanish colony of Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco in 1975 during the Green March following a transfer agreement with Madrid and despite opposition from the Polisario Front, which declared the independence of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
The 1991 ceasefire was signed by Morocco and the Polisario Front with a view to holding a referendum on self-determination, but disagreements over the preparation of the census and whether or not to include Moroccan settlers have so far prevented the was proclaimed.
In addition, the Polisario declared the 1992 ceasefire broken following the expulsion of Sahrawi activists from the border crossing with Mauritania by Moroccan forces in November 2020. Rabat considers the area between the post and the border with Mauritania to be ‘no man’s land’, while the Polisario Front considers it its own territory.
The latest setback for the Sahrawi independence fighters was the Spanish government’s support for the Moroccan autonomy plan made public on March 18 in a letter to the King of Alaouit, Mohamed VI, a change of position described by the Polisario Front as betrayal. that Spain is still ‘de iure’ the governing power of Western Sahara.
Source: La Verdad
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