Polisario leader, UN Secretary General discuss plans for new Western Sahara talks
2008-11-05
Polisario Front (SADR) leader Mohamed Abdelaziz met with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and representatives of the Security Council Monday (November 3rd) in New York to discuss the future of Western Sahara negotiations, AFP reported. Abdelaziz told reporters that a formal appointment of a new mediator would accelerate the negotiation process.
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Med Posted 2008-11-08
Morocco seems to want to maintain the status quo. The fourth commission of the United Nations General Assembly met on 21 October 2008 to approve a resolution on the Western Sahara aimed at find “a fair, lasting and mutually acceptable solution that would allow for the self-determination of the Sahrawi people.” Yet, the King’s discourse remains fixed on the proposal for autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, which he wants to impose as the sole solution. On the other hand, it seems to refuse the status quo. You need to know what you want. If he is trying to progress things, then Morocco is condemned to respect international law, accepting the organisation of a self-determining referendum for the populations of the Western Sahara. That is what is at issue with this conflict. To this end, Morocco must accept the appointment of a new mediator and quickly negotiate a solution- of which there are many- that takes into account both the interests of Morocco and those of the Sahrawi population, no longer adhering to a dead-end choice.
Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad Posted 2008-11-11
It seems to me that your editorial line is very Algerian when it comes to the conflict over the Western Sahara. However, this has not prevented you from opening up a debate on the subject, and that is a very good thing. The conflict over the Western Sahara was, in the context of the Cold War, wherein the Arabs loved on another, an Algerian and Libyan invention!!! All the Westerners know it, as does the Arab world. The Polisario’s demands for independence are unrealistic and everyone knows it, except the most communist among us. Currently, a regional context exists in the Western Sahara that would favour economic development and human rights, as has been stipulated in several reports by nongovernmental organisations. We must now face the facts and leave this to the United Nations and the international community. There is a proposal on the table that the international community has considered both realistic and able to constitute a foundation for negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario/Algeria. Why make the innocents suffer more: the leaders of the Polisario despise and neglect them while they themselves spend most of their time living the opulent life outside of the camps, allegedly defending the former’s interests. I find this unjust and abominable. Surrounding people and preventing them from moving at will be based on the pretext that it is for their own good is truly the same as taking them for cattle. It is but these poor people who have come from neighbouring countries who are made to be recruited into this victimisation by the leaders of the Polisario and representatives from organisations on the extreme left who are fighting heart and sole for a lost cause. Be reasonable and peaceful.
Ahmed Salem Amr Khaddad Posted 2008-11-11
I believe that the Western Sahara is coming over. The idea of autonomy isn't a blocking issue as the referendum was. The kingdom of Morocco proposed an autonomy initiative but Polisario can also bring his version of autonomy. That's the will of the international community : an acceptable solution for both the parties taking into account what is on the table actually and not returning to a status quo. I believe that's the spirit of the autonomy initiative, making the conflict moving forward. So let's do it and let's participate to the great reconciliation for a great Western Sahara under the moroccan sovereignty.
الغالية Posted 2008-11-12
It is supposed that the appointment of a new mediator in the conflict of Western Sahara speeds up negotiations as Mohamed Abdelaziz said. He was right. But it is an opportunity to remind the leader of the Polisario that he has personally made a fuss about the former mediator Walsum who was appointed for the same objective: speeding up the wheel of negotiations. Walsum found out that the claims of the Polisario to break up from Morocco were unrealistic and impossible. This was confirmed by a former UN mediator, Eric Johnson. So does Abdelaziz think that the new mediator will be appointed for a mission and he will come up with a conclusion different from that of his colleagues? Does he think that the opinion of the UN which confirmed the statements of mediators will contradict recent decisions of the UN in Manhasset? And the majority attitude of great states? Maybe Abdelaziz has finally come back to reason or totally lost reason…
prince des canuts Posted 2009-02-24
Morocco’s intransigent position is vividly clear. In the West, only a few countries support Morocco, and they are the same ones who are plundering the Western Sahara’s mineral resources. The USA, Israel, France, Spain and England pretend that they are the only ones that represent West, something that points to mental illness. Strengthened by the support, the Moroccans sinking into fantasy and revisionism, accusing Algeria of everything in a media war orchestrated by the Zionists of all stripes. While the Moroccans are languishing in shantytowns, the Westerners are raiding us from their nice mansions, the women are constrained to prostitution and the men to begging and drug dealing. And, the few that have escaped are very proud of this situation. France wanted to make its vassal, Morocco, the leader of the Maghreb, but it comes in last in both the Arab world and the Mediterranean basin. 50% of its children are uneducated, 50% of the population lives in misery in the countryside, there are abandoned children abound, and it is enough just to go to Morocco to note this – it is impossible to take a step with being approached by a beggar or a prostitute. The Moroccan leaders’ verbal abuse demonstrated the level of their immaturity, their trade with Israel demonstrates their vassal status. They attack Algeria verbally when legal means do exist to demonstrate the profound pervasiveness of Zionism in Morocco. Zionism = a deceiver, a blinder, a cheater.
marocain Posted 2009-03-24
I would like to tell to Maghreb brothers that the issue of the Sahara between Morocco and Polisario is a bilateral conflict. So why does Algeria interfere, fund and arm the Polisario though it is a poor and underdeveloped country even if it has natural resources plundered by Bouteflika?
البشير Posted 2009-08-13
First of all, I am Moroccan and I am very proud of that. I ask king Mohamed VI and the Moroccan government not to accept the presence of the Polsiario state on our Moroccan Sahara. Western Sahara should be considered an integral part of the territory of Morocco. I say to Algeria and my enemy the Polisario, if you try to enter our Sahara militarily, the Moroccan army will crush your army and will remove you both from the map of the world. This is my wish. I hope that all Moroccan young people will be concerned about their country.
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