The Polisario Front has branded as «manipulation and lies» Morocco’s statements in which it describes as a «legal aberration» that the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) is part of the African Union (AU).
The Saharawi Ministry of Information denounced «Morocco’s attempts to justify its illegal occupation and colonialist mentality» and said that these words of Rabat «only demonstrate its failure to sully the reputation of SADR», as reported by the Saharawi news agency SPS.
In this regard, he recalled that SADR has been a member of the AU for «more than three decades» and accused Morocco of «clearly violating the provisions» of several articles of the Constitutive Act of the body «on the respect of the borders existing at the time of independence, the prevention of the acquisition of territory by force and ? the resolution of disputes by peaceful means».
«Morocco is aware that its expansion project has no future in Africa and is aware that the international community will not recognize its alleged sovereignty over Western Sahara, despite resorting to the methods it masters most, such as bribery, the purchase of wills and the dissemination of lies or manipulations far from the truth, in order to violate its commitments signed by its king, ratified by its Parliament and deposited with the Commission of the African Union», he concluded.
The Polisario Front’s declarations came after the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Naser Burita, affirmed that the presence of the «pseudo» SADR in the AU is an «institutional obstacle» to the resolution of the conflict in Western Sahara.
Burita said that this membership is a «violation» of international law and the principles of national unity, before adding that it embodies «an Africa of divisions» and «a contradiction» to the practice of the AU. «If SADR is a state, its first place should be in the United Nations,» he concluded.
Morocco rejoined the AU in 2017, an organization it left in 1984 in protest at its recognition of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony occupied by Moroccan forces since 1975.
The former Spanish colony was occupied despite the resistance of the Polisario Front, with whom it was at war until 1991, when both parties signed a ceasefire with a view to holding a referendum on self-determination, but differences over the elaboration of the census and the inclusion or not of Moroccan settlers has so far prevented its convocation.
On November 14, 2020, the Polisario Front declared the cease-fire with Morocco broken in response to a Moroccan military action against Saharawi activists in Guerguerat, in the agreed zone of détente, which was for the Saharawis a violation of the terms of the cease-fire.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
