The Chilean Senate has given unanimous support to the Sahara Autonomy Initiative, presented by Morocco in 2007 to resolve the dispute over its southern provinces.
The Chilean Senate unanimously adopted a resolution in which it “ expresses its support for the Moroccan initiative for the negotiation of a status of autonomy for the Sahara region, which means a definitive and lasting peaceful solution » to this dispute.
The Chilean senators’ resolution also requests “ the support and continued commitment of the Government of Chile, as a member of the United Nations (UN), to Resolution No. 1754 of the Security Council of that organization, adopted on April 30, 2007 ».
In the recitals of the Chilean Senate resolution, it is recalled that the Autonomy Initiative for the Sahara has received support in particular from Spain, the United States, France, Germany, the Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Portugal.
The Chilean Senate sets out in detail the positions expressed by these different countries in favor of the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative, described as “the most serious, realistic and credible basis for resolving the dispute (…) and for guaranteeing peace and prosperity” in the region.
The Chilean Senate resolution was initiated by the former president of this legislative institution Yasna Provoste, currently president of the Chile-Morocco parliamentary friendship group. It was supported by 37 senators from the entire political spectrum represented in the Chilean Senate, majority and opposition combined, including the former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, current chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee.
-Last December, the Minister of Foreign Relations of the Republic of Chile, Alberto Van Klaveren Stork, reiterated from Rabat “Chile’s constant support for the process led by the United Nations with a view to a just, pragmatic, lasting, realistic solution , viable, definitive and mutually acceptable to the question of Western Sahara, within the framework of the initiative presented by Morocco to the United Nations in April 2007.
In a Joint Declaration sanctioning the meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans living abroad, Nasser Bourita, and his Chilean counterpart, Chile also underlined, “the centrality of the United Nations in the political process and reaffirms its support for United Nations Security Council resolution 2756, dated October 31, 2024”, et “values the serious and credible efforts made by the Kingdom of Morocco to advance the process towards a political solution.”
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