{"id":12974,"date":"2022-04-13T08:27:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T08:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/foreign-minister-corrects-saharawi-bungle"},"modified":"2022-04-14T10:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T10:15:51","slug":"foreign-minister-corrects-saharawi-bungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/foreign-minister-corrects-saharawi-bungle","title":{"rendered":"Foreign minister corrects Saharawi bungle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>Lesotho will continue to maintain her principled position on Western Sahara, and has reiterated her traditional support for the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as an independent African country co-existing with Morocco in peace and security.<\/p>\n

This correction follows a diplomatic bungle by former foreign minister, Lesego Makgothi, last year in a unilateral decision to change the country\u2019s position on Western Sahara, and in particular the SADR independence.<\/p>\n

Lesotho\u2019s position of support for the independence of the SADR was peppered with derision after Makgothi, in two statements in as many months, deviated from long-standing state support for the SADR\u2019s struggle for self-determination and recognition against a decades-long occupation by Morocco.<\/p>\n

The SADR is a self-declared state recognised by many governments. It has been forcefully occupied by Morocco since 1976 after it annexed the territory following the withdrawal of European colonisers, Spain, in 1975 \u2013 leading to a long-running territorial dispute between Morocco and the indigenous Saharawi people.<\/p>\n

Lesotho has held the position to rally behind global states backing the freedom of the Saharawi people, condemning Morocco for its occupation of the Western Sahara.<\/p>\n

But in early October, 2019, the world woke up to a shock of a leaked state-to-state diplomatic communication between ministries of foreign affairs asserting Lesotho\u2019s support for the Islamic state in its occupation of the SADR, which was promptly flanked by Moroccan state media and official websites reports celebrating the addition of Lesotho to a constellation of countries the fellow Arab country had been successfully wooing to desert the Sahrawi solidarity front at the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN).<\/p>\n

The October 4, 2019, declaration drew instant local, regional and global condemnation \u2013 and left Maseru inundated with enquiries for explanation, while both the foreign affairs ministry and the prime minister\u2019s office maintained an eerie silence.<\/p>\n

Five days later, on October 9, 2019, the government issued a statement regretting the outing of this communication with Morocco, and reaffirming age-old support for the Saharawi struggle and support for the ongoing UN-mediated talks between the belligerents.<\/p>\n

Until this week, under a new administration, government had not given any explanation for this breach of policy, nor has any office or state agency taken a whipping for it.<\/p>\n

On June 2 the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Relations, \u2019Mat\u0161epo Molise-Ramakoae, announced that the Lesotho government underscored the need for creating conditions that would allow the holding of a peaceful and fair referendum for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernment, therefore, pronounces Lesotho\u2019s support for peaceful negotiations, aimed at holding the referendum between Western Sahara and Morocco on an equal footing and without pre-conditions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Adding that government will also dispatch a Special Envoy to Western Sahara, the SADC and the AU chairpersons to dispel all misrepresentations and distortions regarding the Lesotho position on Western Sahara and to reiterate Lesotho\u2019s principled position on Western Sahara.<\/p>\n

The minister said it was regrettable that Western Sahara remained the only colony on the African continent contrary to the principles of the UN Charter, adding that the issue of Western Sahara was a question of decolonisation which remained to be completed by the Sahrawi people with their inalienable right to self-determination and independence.<\/p>\n

Ramakoae said there had been no cabinet decision authorising Makgothi\u2019s October, 2019, diplomatic note to change Lesotho\u2019s foreign policy or position on Western Sahara.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a matter of fact the issue was never submitted for consideration by cabinet. Therefore, any pronouncements made purporting to change Lesotho\u2019s positions on this issue are of no force and effect.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndeed, Lesotho exists as a country today because of solidarity with others and her independence and sovereignty shall, to a large extend, continue to depend on solidarity with other states,\u201d the minister continued.<\/p>\n

She recalled a SADC Solidarity Conference on Western Sahara early in 2019 in South Africa and that the decisions of that conference were endorsed by the SADC Summit that was held in Tanzania in August the same year.<\/p>\n

\u201cLesotho participated in both Summits at the highest level,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the September 74th UN General Assembly in 2019 Lesotho\u2019s former Prime Minister, Motsoahae Thabane, called for an end to the occupation and the declaration of independence for Saharawi.<\/p>\n

He said the international community could not stand idly by while some countries interfere with the sovereignty of other members of the organisation. He pointed out that the Saharawi people have been looking for independence for years and this was a right they deserved like the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

Thabane said it was the duty of the UN to protect the sovereignty of its member states and prevent any interference in the affairs of other states, continuing that Lesotho\u2019s refusal that the UN should remain indifferent to the plight of the people of the Saharawi people who were fighting for their right to freedom to no avail was on point.<\/p>\n

In his epic diplomatic howler Makgothi declared in Morocco\u2019s capital, Rabat through an October 4, 2019, Note Verbale, that Lesotho had reached a \u201csovereign decision to suspend all its decisions and statements related to Western Sahara and the \u2018SADR\u2019 pending the outcome of a UN process currently dealing with the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201d \u201cOur dialogue also allowed us to get a deeper understanding of the issue of Western Sahara. We conducted a thorough evaluation of the effectiveness of the Kingdom of Lesotho\u2019s position concerning this regional dispute.<\/p>\n

This evaluation of promoting a just and peaceful solution of this regional conflict will best be served by a \u2018neutral\u2019 yet strong support of the Kingdom of Lesotho to the ongoing UN-led process under the guidance of the UN Secretary General and supervision of its Security Council,\u201d Makgothi told the Moroccans.<\/p>\n

He regretted that this new \u201cnational position has been subjected to some misunderstandings, confirming a commitment to suspend all previous decisions and statements related to Western Sahara and SADR, pending the outcome of the UN.<\/p>\n

\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough commitment to neutrality on the Western Sahara dispute; this position will be observed in regional, sub-regional and international meetings.<\/p>\n

\u201cA commitment to actively support the political process led by the UN as the multilateral framework to find a realistic, practicable and enduring political solution to the question of Western Sahara and a commitment from the Kingdom of Lesotho to work, with the kingdom of Morocco to develop and strengthen bilateral cooperation on multiple sectors for the shared benefits of our two sisterly countries,\u201d Makgothi said.<\/p>\n

Makgothi continued that Lesotho has always remained committed to its partners, and that Lesotho will remain committed to Morocco \u201cto its new and very promising, partnership.<\/p>\n

\u201d \u201cThis new position will be communicated to the SADC and AU, and will act accordingly in regional and international fora.<\/p>\n

Any different statement or document, be it before or after this official position, will be void and have no value,\u201d he said following his meeting with Moroccan foreign minister Nasser Bourita. The meeting was also attended by the Moroccan Speaker of the House of Representatives, Habib El Malki.<\/p>\n

This Morocco and Lesotho bilateral relationship, according to Makgothi, had a strong determination to develop and strengthen the union in various fields of cooperation that includes agriculture, education, water, health, diplomatic training and military cooperation; signatures will be appended to this agreement for finalisation in Rabat soon.<\/p>\n

Speaking to this paper immediately after Makgothi\u2019s declaration government spokesperson, Pheello Nthakeng Selinyane, reiterated the known national stance on the SADR, indicating \u201cI even asked the government secretary for direction on these new developments when the scandal broke and he said he was not aware.<\/p>\n

\u201d Selinyane issued a statement on behalf of government upon Makgothi\u2019s initial bungle that Lesotho was reaffirming its commitment to the collective position of both the SADC and the AU for the immediate independence of the SADR. The government spokesperson said Lesotho had played a critical role in forging the two bodies\u2019 positions which it remained committed to.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government of Lesotho will continue to support all diplomatic initiatives towards achievement of the UN Resolution on Western Sahara, including the December 2018 meeting of the stakeholders\u2026government wishes to reiterate that the policy of the Lesotho government on the cause of the Saharawi people, and Lesotho\u2019s solidarity with their struggle as annunciated decades ago, and in keeping with a sovereign Lesotho\u2019s age-old tradition of solidarity with the oppressed people of the world, has not changed in the slightest,\u201d Selinyane said in the statement.<\/p>\n

Through successive governments Lesotho has maintained cordial bilateral relations with the Saharawi people which started after Lesotho\u2019s 1966 independence, having maintained these through the years and continuing to nurture them; the two countries maintained high-level visits in between.<\/p>\n

In 2000 a cabinet member of the national secretariat of the POLISARIO Front and Western Sahara\u2019s UN Coordinator visited Lesotho to present a message soliciting Lesotho\u2019s support; with further visits in 2012, 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n

High level visits of note are the official visit to Western Sahara by the former Prime Minister Motsoahae Thomas Thabane in 2012; Saharawi President and Secretary General of the POLISARIO Front, Brahim Ghali, was in 2018 in Lesotho\u2019s capital, Maseru, on a three-day working visit; he was received in the country by then Deputy Prime Minister Monyane Moleleki and several cabinet ministers.<\/p>\n

He was received with full military honours in a reception where national anthems of both countries were played. President Ghali\u2019s entourage comprised foreign minister Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, the Minister of Cooperation, Bulahi Sid, Secretary of State for Security and Documentation, Brahim Ahmed Mahmud, Sukeina Larabas, Minetu Larabas, Abdati Breika, Councillor of the Presidency and Maleinin Lakhal, advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n

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