Referendum in Western Sahara is inappropriate

Rabat (EFE).- Morocco’s King Mohammed VI confirmed this Wednesday that a referendum in the disputed territory of Western Sahara is inappropriate and called on the United Nations to take its “responsibility” in this matter.

This was said in his traditional address to the nation on the occasion of the 49th anniversary of the Green March, which commemorates the initiative of the late King Hassan II to organize a march to the then Spanish colony of Western Sahara to force the Spanish army Is. Drop it and add it.

“There are those who demand a referendum despite the United Nations abandoning this option and its inappropriateness,” Mohammed VI said about holding final consultations on the sovereignty of the territory, which is currently 80% administered by Morocco but Controversial is the Sahrawi independentists of the Polisario Front.

The Polisario Front, established in Algeria, where the Sahrawi refugee camps are located, defends before the United Nations – the body in charge of dealing with the issue – that this consultation be held.

For the Moroccan monarch, who did not directly quote the Polisario Front in his speech, those who defend the referendum are “part of another world, different from the truth, which still rests on the illusions of the past. Remains and is linked to principles beyond time”.

Census in the Sahrawi camps of Tindouf

Furthermore, Mohammed VI accused them of refusing to “allow a census” in the Sahrawi camps of Tindouf (Algeria) and of holding its inhabitants “hostages” “in degrading conditions”.

The monarch indicated that “there are people who take advantage of the Sahara issue to gain access to the Atlantic Ocean” and “to hide their many internal problems”, in an indirect allusion towards Algeria, which hosts the Polisario and Sahrawi refugees. Does.

Facing this, he said in his speech that Morocco had established “a solid reality, an immutable truth based on law, legality, commitment and responsibility” in Western Sahara.

The Moroccan king also highlighted the “increasing international recognition” of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara and the “widespread support for the autonomy initiative” proposed by Rabat on the territory. The last country to provide this aid was France.

“It is time for the United Nations to assume its responsibility and clarify the great difference between the two paradigms: the one that Morocco presents in its Sahara – realistic and legitimate – and one that is based on the real world and its different approaches. There is development,” he assured.