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Rabat – Emmanuel Macron promised on Wednesday in Rabat France’s “diplomatic” commitment to push the Moroccan solution on Western Sahara at the UN as well as within the European Union.
“We will act by engaging diplomatically to convince that the Moroccan solution is the only one within the European Union, at the United Nations,” he said in front of the French community in Morocco on the last day of a state visit that began on Monday.
The French president drew loud applause from the Moroccan Parliament on Tuesday by reaffirming that “the present and future” of this disputed territory “are within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty.” A position already stated this summer in a letter to King Mohammed VI, which paved the way for this repeatedly postponed state visit.
The former Spanish colony of Western Sahara, considered a “non-self-governing territory” by the UN, has pitted Morocco against the Sahrawi independence seekers of the Polisario Front, supported by Algiers, for half a century. (October 30, 2024)
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