Minister of Justice, Mr. Abdellatif Ouahbi said that the overall number of states supporting the autonomy initiative has increased to 91 states, while this dynamism has been reinforced by a number of African, Arab and South American countries which have opened their consulates in the Moroccan Sahara.
Minister Ouahbi confirmed in his allocution made at the 52nd session meeting of the UN human rights council held on Monday, February 27, 2023 in Geneva, that regarding the artificial regional conflict about the Moroccan Sahara, the Moroccan Kingdom reiterates its support to the political process and its commitments to round-tables formula, with the participation of all parties under exclusive sponsorship of the United Nations, in order to reach “a realistic, practical and sustainable solution based on consensus”, and on the basis of autonomy initiative considered by the UN Security Council for the 19th time as reliable and credible; and that initiative has won a large support from many important countries, as “the unique framework to solve this artificial regional conflict”, as His Majesty King Mohammed VI reaffirmed in his royal speech on the anniversary of August 20, 2022.
Minister Ouahbi has highlighted that that dynamism consents with international legitimacy such as the UN Security Council resolution number 2654 which has reconfirmed the formula of round-tables as the unique formula for those UN-sponsored negotiations to reach a political solution to be “realistic, practical and sustainable based on consensus”, as all of the parties have called for the integration of round-tables process, which Algeria and its product reject while sticking to options buried by the UN for two decades.
Minister of Justice has clarified that at a time the Moroccan Kingdom’s Southern provinces are witnessing a large social and economic boom allowing populations to enjoy their rights and participation in managing public affairs through represented institutions, the suffering of Moroccan sequestrated in Tinduf camps in Algeria continues for half a century; suffering from embargo, expropriation of their rights from gathering and ban from movement; and they are also suffering from illegal executions and arbitrary arrests and disappearance and all kinds of torture, rape, human trafficking and children recruitment (in the army) by militias denying them basic rights.