{"id":17259,"date":"2022-03-19T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/spain-agrees-to-having-autonomous-western-sahara-under-rabats-rule"},"modified":"2022-03-19T19:33:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T19:33:56","slug":"spain-agrees-to-having-autonomous-western-sahara-under-rabats-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/spain-agrees-to-having-autonomous-western-sahara-under-rabats-rule","title":{"rendered":"Spain agrees to having autonomous Western Sahara under Rabat’s Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Ghana. <\/strong><\/span>Spain has written to the Moroccan king, Mohammed VI agreeing that having Western Sahara operate autonomously under Rabat\u2019s rule is \u201cthe most serious, realistic and credible\u201d initiative for resolving a decades-long dispute over the vast African territory.<\/p>\n

This marked an enormous departure from Spain\u2019s earlier stance of considering Morocco\u2019s grip on Western Sahara an occupation. The shift followed months of frosty diplomatic relations and led to the announcement of a flurry of visits by Spanish officials to its southern neighbour.<\/p>\n

The United Nations has continued to regard Madrid as the colonial administrative power for Western Sahara, even after its annexation by Morocco immediately after Spain abandoned its African province in 1975. Over the years, the Spanish government\u2019s official position, along with the European Union\u2019s, has been to support a U.N.-sponsored referendum in Western Sahara.<\/p>\n

But according to a statement issued by Morocco\u2019s royal palace, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez recognized \u201cthe importance of the Sahara issue for Morocco\u201d in a letter to King Mohammed VI.<\/p>\n

In his message to the Moroccan King, the President of the Spanish Government also stressed that “the two countries are inextricably linked by affections, history, geography, interests and shared friendship\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mr Sanchez said he was “convinced that the destinies of both peoples are linked as well” and that “the prosperity of Morocco is linked to that of Spain, and vice versa. Spain considers the autonomy initiative presented by Morocco in 2007 as the basis, the most serious, realistic and credible, for resolving the dispute\u201d.<\/p>\n

Spanish Foreign Minister Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares confirmed the Moroccan announcement. \u201cToday we begin a new stage in our relations with Morocco and finally close a crisis with a strategic partner,\u201d he told reporters. He added that the new chapter was \u201cbased on mutual respect, compliance with agreements, the absence of unilateral actions and transparency and permanent communication.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albares, the Spanish Foreign Minister, has been invited for meetings in Rabat later this month and officials were scheduling a visit by S\u00e1nchez himself, the Moroccan ministry of foreign affairs said.<\/p>\n

In its statement, the Spanish government welcomed the invitations and said it wanted to face \u201ccommon challenges\u201d together with Rabat, \u201cespecially cooperation in the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Moroccan royal palace, in his message to the king, S\u00e1nchez wrote that Spain\u2019s goal is \u201cto act with the absolute transparency that corresponds to a great friend and ally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given the eminently historic role of Spain in the Sahara issue, the notice of its most authoritative voice, thus expressed in the message addressed to His Majesty THE KING by the President of the Spanish government, takes on a very special deep resonance. This announcement is part of a momentum that has seen the United States recognize the full and complete sovereignty of Morocco over its Sahara, as do the countries of the Arab League, the Gulf States, in addition to the opening of more than twenty consulates in the cities of Laayoune and Dakhla.<\/p>\n

It is also appropriate to underline the evolution of the position of Germany, whose President had, in a message addressed to the Sovereign, on 5th of January this year, affirmed that his country \u201cconsiders the Moroccan autonomy plan presented in 2007 as a serious and credible effort of Morocco and as a good basis for reaching an agreement\u201d to this dispute.<\/p>\n

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