Thus, the president of the Municipality of Smara, Moulay Brahim Charif stressed that this initiative, described as serious and credible by the Security Council, offers broad autonomy to the southern provinces and confers important prerogatives to local populations to manage their own affairs within the framework of the national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Morocco.
Beyond its ambition to promote sustainable development throughout the region, this judicious initiative is a “peaceful and democratic” solution to resolve the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, through representative bodies endowed with effective and pragmatic prerogatives and human and financial resources necessary for their operation, he explained.
Along the same lines, Leila Dahi, MP from the southern provinces, highlighted Morocco’s diplomatic breakthroughs in its efforts to defend its territorial integrity against the desires of the armed separatist militias of the Polisario and their mentor, Algeria. .
In this regard, she cited the growing support of major world powers for the Moroccan character of the Sahara such as the United States, France, Spain and Germany, as well as the opening by around thirty countries of their consulates. in the cities of Laâyoune and Dakhla.
Ms. Dahi, who is also president of the Youth Caucus within the Pan-African Parliament (PAP), noted that 40% of countries representing the five regions of Africa have decided to open their consular representations in this part of Morocco. According to her, this is a message that could not be clearer that the African continent rejects the chimerical entity and defeats the futile and desperate maneuvers of the armed separatists in Tindouf and their sponsors.
She further noted that this growing international support is a forthright recognition of the Kingdom’s legitimate historical rights throughout its territory.
For his part, the mayor of the city of Dakhla, Erragheb Hormatollah highlighted the climate of democracy and the dynamic of all-out development underway in the southern provinces, noting that the legitimate representatives of these Moroccan provinces come from free and transparent elections.
This status cannot be claimed by the petitioners of the Polisario separatist militia “who are in the pay of the host country”, Algeria, he told the members of the 4th Commission of the AG of the UN.
As mayor of the city of Dakhla, “democratically elected by authentic Sahrawis”, Mr. Hormatollah affirmed that the armed separatist movement “represents neither me nor the voters who elected me”, adding that the real representatives Sahrawis are those elected in transparency by the real population of the Sahara.
For her part, Nabroha Duihi, associative actress, indicated that Morocco, aware of the insidious maneuvers of the enemies of its territorial integrity and wishing to put an end to this regional dispute, took the initiative by opening the issue to the international community of a realistic political solution where there is neither winner nor loser, and this through the autonomy plan.
“If this initiative was welcomed by the entire international community, it has, on the other hand, caused so much dismay among the adversaries of our country who seek instead to impose, by force, deception and blackmail, an entity bogus to get our hands on the territory of the Moroccan Sahara in order to make it a window on the Atlantic,” she said.
