The two north African countries have been at loggerheads for over 30 years now because of Algeria's unconditional support to the Polisario separatists who lay claims to Morocco's Southern Provinces.
These territories, known as the Sahara, have been under Spanish rule till Morocco retrieved them in 1975 by virtue of the Madrid Accord signed with Madrid and Nouakchott. Morocco, part of its efforts to iron out the dispute, is devising a proposal to grant substantial autonomy to the Sahara.
In an interview with MAP, Munoz Ledo called on "making a mediation effort at the international level" and "restoring a high-level political dialog" between the parties to find a solution to the dispute.
Touching on the efforts made to reach a solution to the Sahara issue, Munoz, who will partake in A "Forum on Maghrebine dimension in prospective thought (Morocco 2030)," due on March 12-13 in Skhirate (45 km southern Rabat,) noted that the strategic needs of the region were not put forward and only an "archaic decolorizing agenda" was followed, regretting, though, the passivity of the international community and the EU.
Touching on the Maghreb region (a regional grouping that musters besides Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Mauritania,) Munoz Ledo stressed that the obstacles, hindering Maghreban countries' integration, are -as in Latin America- of political nature.