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Thursday, October 3, 2024
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  Morocco will present its plan to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern Provinces (the Sahara) to the UN Security Council on April 10, official sources announced here Monday.

Part of this initiative, Moroccan Prime Minister, Driss Jettou is holding -until Wednesday- a series of meetings with political parties and local media to explain the broad lines of this proposal that the North African country hopes will put an end to the three decade-old dispute with the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario".

   The latter is claiming the independence of the former Spanish colony that was ceded to Morocco in 1975 under the Madrid Accords.

    Morocco has in the past few weeks dispatched several delegations of senior officials to Europe, Africa, America, Asia and Arab countries part of a worldwide diplomatic campaign to drum up support for the proposal.        
   
    Several countries such as France, Spain, the United States, Italy, Mexico, Comoros and Portugal "commended" the Moroccan initiative and expressed their "support" to Morocco's efforts to find a final solution to the conflict within the framework of the United Nations.

    The UN Security Council (UNSC) is due to debate the Sahara issue on April 20, whereas the UN Secretary General report on the Sahara will be submitted to UNSC members on April 16.

 

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