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Friday, March 29, 2024
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King Mohammed VI's visit to the southern provinces is a "response to Polisario's provocation acts," wrote Thursday the Arabic-speaking daily "Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki."

The paper notes that the visit, which the sovereign kicked off Monday, is "a multidimensional national event that bears more than a signification," and a "response to the provocation acts of the separatists."
 
The daily also pointed out that the visit "is a stage in the discussions about the southern provinces autonomy within the framework of national unity, a choice suggested by Morocco for the final settlement of the artificial conflict of the Sahara," which has been opposing, since 1976, Morocco to the Algeria-backed "Polisario" separatist movement that lays claims to Morocco southern provinces (the Sahara).
 
The Royal visit also marks a new stage in the southern provinces development, as the projects launched by the Sovereign touch notably on infrastructures, notes the paper, pointing out that the budgets allotted to these projects show the will to achieve a self-sufficiency at the regional level.
 
In a comment entitled “Unexpected Visit of SM the King to Maâtallah district: the separatists imposture revealed, Morocco is sovereign on each inch of its territory,” the French-speaking daily “L’Opinion” stresses that more than a response to the propaganda of Morocco’s enemies and an invalidation of the erroneous information that it conveys, the Royal visit to Maâtallah district “is a strong confirmation, to everybody, of the full Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara and Morocco’s sovereignty on each inch of its territory, each locality and each district.” 
 
“Once again, Morocco draws the attention of the international community on the strongest elements that found this sovereignty, transmitted through a historical chain that dates back to the Moroccan State creation fourteen centuries ago,” underlined the paper.
 
“The permanent meetings and the direct relationships between the King and the people reflect the mutual recognition and allegiance to the King,” adds the paper. 
 
The daily also devotes its leading article to the visit of a Libyan emissary to Laayoune, noting that it “shows that Libya publicly recognizes the Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara and refuses harming Morocco’s territorial integrity and carving-up its national soil.”
 
Libya, it writes, is the best placed to know that the Sahara conflict is artificial and that it was made up by Algiers to weaken and encircle Morocco, to separate it from sub-Saharan Africa and have access to the Atlantic.
 
“Conscious of its Arab responsibilities, Libya cannot support division and Algiers’ plans aiming to create an entity with the single aim to impose its leadership on the region’s countries and hamper the construction of the Large Arab Maghreb,” the paper notes.
 
Echoing “L’Opinion,” “Assabah,” which stresses that the Sahara issue observers see in the audience granted by the King in Laâyoune to Ahmed Kadhaf Al-Dam, emissary of Libyan leader, Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi, a Libyan recognition to the Moroccan sovereignty over Sahara and a position that goes beyond “neutrality” that Libya adopted years ago.
 
Libya against separatism in the Maghreb, writes, for its part, “Libération” that notes that “in its symbolism, the fact would not go unnoticed in our Maghreban neighbours all the more so as Tripoli has frozen its relations with the SADR (...).” 
 
“L’Economiste” evokes the warm welcome accorded to the sovereign upon his arrival to Boujdour, underlining that this welcome “reflects, once again, the Moroccan sovereignty over its southern provinces, a sovereignty, which the autonomy project that Morocco will submit to the United nations, will consolidate.”

 

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