2023-09-15 22:20:36
From Geneva, the Polisario is appealing to the Spanish Popular Party. The Front expressed the wish that “the next Spanish government reviews the support” of Pedro Sanchez for the Moroccan autonomy plan in Western Sahara, reported Friday September 15 a media close to the Polisario.
Support qualified as “obvious legal violation of the sovereignty of the Sahrawi people and the legal status of the territory of Western Sahara”, indicated the representative of the Polisario in Switzerland, Oubi Bachir, during a meeting organized in Geneva, on the sidelines of the new session of the UN Human Rights Council, on “the historic responsibility of Spain” in the Sahara.
A version that the Spanish executive has already rejected. “Spain considers itself detached from any international responsibility for the administration of Western Sahara since the letter sent on February 26, 1976 by the permanent representative of Spain to the United Nations to the Secretary General of the UN. From this date, Spain announced the end of its presence in the territory of the Sahara,” the Spanish government clarified in August 2020 in a response to a written question from a senator from the Basque independence party EH. Bildu. “Spain does not appear as an administering power in the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories,” said Pedro Sanchez’s executive.
This call from the Polisario to the leader of the right comes as Spanish deputies must vote, on September 27, on the candidacy of the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, for the post of Prime Minister. As a reminder, on August 23, King Felipe VI proposed Alberto Núñez Feijóo to form a new government.
During the legislative campaign of July 23, the president of the PP reiterated his proposal to “return to the balance between Algeria, the Sahrawi people and Morocco”.
The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, welcomed, on September 3, the “success” of the “road map” agreed between Spain and Morocco and assured that it “will continue”. “A road map is a process, a long-term commitment between the two countries,” assured the head of diplomacy in statements to his country’s press.
The new page in relations between Rabat and Madrid is the direct consequence of Pedro Sanchez’s support for the Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara, announced on March 18, 2022.
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