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11000 Moroccans living in Europe support their country in Grenada: “end of the artificial conflict” |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Wednesday, 10 March 2010 |
 It is probably the most beautiful demonstration of this everlasting link uniting Moroccans to the Kingdom. Coming from all Europe, by bus, car or by air, over 11000 Moroccans residing abroad showed yesterday in Grenada their support to the first European Union summit with a country of the South Mediterranean, and also expressed their support to the Royal speech transmitted yesterday to the EU, which does strongly affirm the Kingdom’s will to put an end to the Sahara “artificial conflict”. The Moroccan autonomy initiative, qualified as “serious” and “credible” by the United Nations, finds thus in Grenada a strong popular impulse through the demonstration and support of the Moroccans living in Europe. |
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Moroccan Sahara: Armonk, waiting for the next negotiation round … |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
 The foreign observers consider that the informal meeting of Armonk City, near New York, in the USA, held under the UN auspices, between Morocco and the Polisario, in the presence of Algeria and Mauritania, the neighbouring and observing countries, took place as set forth, with no surprising results and each camp reiterating its former stands. However, the Armonk meeting revealed the protagonists’ stands and real intentions. The Polisario, with no real project or initiative holds tightly to the obsolete and old-fashioned stands and uses, consequently, obstructive tactics, while Morocco tries to convince and to make progress negotiations in a constructive way. Within this open and constructive perspective, Morocco presented, in headlines and in detail, its internal autonomy plan for the Sahara region, as part of a clear and ambitious vision for the future, and as part of the regionalization process intended by the Kingdom to be implemented in the near future. A structuring process for the country regions as a whole, with more power given to the regional and local institutions of the Region, extended competence and a real autonomy in matters affecting land planning, exploitation and allocation of material and human resources. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 01 March 2010 )
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The second round of informal Morocco- Polisario negotiations ends with a promise to meet again. |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 |
 After two days of intense informal negotiations with a very tight lid kept on what was said, Morocco and the Polisario Front agreed to meet again on a date not yet set. Algeria and Mauritania, observers of this negotiation, should also be present during the next session. According to different press sources, the two delegations shared a meal on Wednesday 11 February, even if the Polisario Front delegation had been somehow late. For the Moroccan side, the position remains more or less the same, as the Kingdom still excludes the referendum with “extreme choices” as a basis for negotiations, emphasizing that this practice remains an exception in the UNO annals. In fact, the Moroccan officials, headed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Taïeb Fassi Fihri, estimated that it was henceforth time to get concentrated on the only realistic proposal to get out of the deadlock, namely the wide autonomy plan proposed by Morocco to the United Nations in 2007. It should be noted that it is this new dynamic that stands behind the ongoing negotiation rounds, as the UNO had affirmed in many of its resolutions the “serious and credible” character of the Moroccan initiative, and that many important powers had adjusted it. Yet, there is still this nagging attitude of Algeria about the issue, and its continuous refusal to consider Morocco’s efforts as well as the new regional state of affairs, imposing a rapid solution for the crisis. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 February 2010 )
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Call for the freedom of the sequestered of Tindouf |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 |
 The international association “Almohagir”, settling in Europe and present in ten European countries, with an association basket gathering over 60 active associations, has recently launched, an international call in favor of the Sahrawi children sequestered in Tindouf camps, Algeria. The international Call entitled « no to oblivion and indifference!” has been spred in the local press of different European countries and in the websites of the international association “Almohagir” and affiliated associations, as well as in those of the NGOs and associations working in the human and mainly child rights field. It has also been sent to different international institutions in charge of child and human rights protection throughout the world, to the media and to NGOs representing the national public opinions. The Call follows other similar calls launched by other human rights and child rights NGO urging the international community, the HCR, the Red Cross and other human rights bodies and leagues to act jointly to end up the agony of innocent children, retained by force in the Polisario camps in Tindouf. The tragedy also touches their families sequestered by the armed militia of the Polisario and the Algerian Military Security, who do not benefit like the rest of the population in camps, from the “refugee” status, which gives right to its benefactor to freely move from one territory to another. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 February 2010 )
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Mohammed VI and the regionalization: we will not be restrained by the Sahara case |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 |
 In a historical speech delivered in Marrakesh, the Moroccan sovereign has announced the launching of the work on regionalization in Morocco, as well as the creation of an ad-hoc committee – the Advisory Committee for Regionalization- (ACR)- which will have six months to hand over its working document to the Head of the State. It is more than a change, it is a real upheaval of the region and of the decentralized management that is announced, the Moroccan sovereign having clearly showed the way to be followed “ It concerns, firstly, the advent of full regions sustainable and stable in time, founded on rational and realistic criteria, relating to a new regionalization system”. The imitation of the foreign decentralized management systems is not an option retained by Mohammed VI, who wishes to see the emergence of a “Moroccan-Moroccan” model, which is called to become “an avant-gardist regionalization model for developing countries”, the sovereign adding “We would like thus to consolidate the privileged position of our country, as a role model, when it concerns taking daring national positions and to bring creative Moroccan answers to major Moroccan issues.” |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 05 January 2010 )
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Bangladesh’s support to the Autonomy Plan for the Moroccan Sahara |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Thursday, 24 December 2009 |
 In an interview published, on December 15th, by the francophone daily, L’Opinion, the Ambassador of Bangladesh in Morocco has reaffirmed the excellent political, diplomatic and human relationship, as a sign of friendship and honesty, uniting Morocco and Bangladesh, since the Independence, in 1971, of this big country of the Southern Asia. The latter has then become, and upon an invitation from His Majesty the Late King Hassan II, a founding member of Al Qods Committee, in charge of defending and preserving the spiritual capital of the Palestinians and the Muslims. As for the territorial integrity of Morocco, Bangladesh is sensitive to the issue and supports the Moroccan proposal of autonomy for the Sahara called Western. “Bangladesh, the diplomat considers, has been all the time sensitive to the Sahara issue and its ‘people’ and has been pleased with the decision of the government of His Majesty to offer a wider autonomy to this region”. He has added that “a decision in this regard has also been unanimously adopted last year, by the UNO concerned commission”, a state of things which consolidates the fair and realistic position of the Kingdom. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 28 December 2009 )
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The Aminatou Haidar’s staging denounced before Ban Ki-moon |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Wednesday, 16 December 2009 |
 At the end of the audience granted, on Thursday, by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Taïeb Fassi Fihri, in New York, the latter has underlined that “the Aminatou Haidar issue constitutes a new attempt of the Algerian government to derail the negotiation process about the Moroccan Sahara”. The head of the Moroccan diplomacy, accompanied during this audience by Mohamed Yassine Mansouri, the Director General of the General Department for Studies and Documentation (DGED), has then affirmed with conviction that “neither Algeria, nor the Polisario want to negotiate”. In order to better support his point, Taïeb Fassi Fihri considers that “the other parties try their best to fabricate problems in order to divert the attention of the international public opinion, instead of concentrating on the main issue and taking commitment to carry on negotiations”. This declaration launched from the United Nations Palace sounds as an interpellation. It mainly reminds of Morocco’s determination not to cede to blackmail and to resist to disinformation campaigns in which the Algerian government and the Polisario are indulged. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 December 2009 )
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The Moroccan Sahara: Manifestation of support to the autonomy project in Barcelona |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Thursday, 03 December 2009 |
 In the wake of the call of many associations of the Moroccan community settling in Catalonia, in Spain, supported by some Spanish and Sahrawi associations set in the Catalan region, an important manifestation has taken place, last Saturday evening, in the famous Place of The Cathedral, a symbol of the Catalan capital, in order to bring an unconditional support to the Moroccan project of the Sahara’s local autonomy, in the presence of the presidents of associations representing the Spanish, European and Maghreb civil society. This manifestation supporting the Sahara region’s autonomy project, under Morocco’s sovereignty and national unity, organized under the rallying slogan of “Yes to the Autonomy status to the Moroccan Sahara”, comes in line with the thirty forth anniversary of the Green March commemoration, which has been distinguished by a strong and striking speech of the King Mohammed VI calling to Moroccans’ mobilization for the success of the broad autonomy project of the Southern provinces, a project involved in a large-scale context, that of the advanced regionalization, with new roles and new responsibilities within the good governance and within a good democracy mindful of equilibrium, equality and equity among its different components. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 December 2009 )
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Aminatou Haïdar undermines Morocco’s sovereignty |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
 By refusing to present her passport and to tell her nationality during the control on borders, Aminatou Haïdar, a pro-polisario militant but paid from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has just set a precedent which is harmful to the relations -already in tension- between Morocco and Algeria. There is, as a matter of course, no doubt that Algeria who has commended this operation to Mme Haïdar, appointing two foreign journalists with her in order to try to get covered by the media an act constituting an obvious violation of all the international laws concerning the crossing of air-land-sea borders. In fact, by refusing to tell her nationality as well as her destination, the pro-polisario activist has voluntarily violated the sovereignty of the Sherifian Kingdom. Yet, the sovereignty, as everybody knows that, is on the basis of the international legal order, a concept that even the most officious law professor in the Algerian regime cannot contradict . It is precisely here that lays the problem, as beyond a simple quarrel about the refusal to tell her identity and nationality, the precedent created by Aminatou Haïdar raises the problem of the behaviour to be adopted in front of this kind of provocation. Morocco has just sent a strong signal: we can not compromise one’s maroccanity. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 December 2009 )
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Moroccan Sahara: 1,2 billion dollars of investments |
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Thursday, 05 November 2009 |
 Within its constant and sustainable effort to expand the economic tissue of the Saharan provinces, Morocco has allocated the amount of 1,2 billion dollars of , direct and indirect, investments, relating to the basic infrastructure and the economic and social activities generating incomes for the people of the Saharan provinces, of the big Moroccan South. Hence, the economic, urban, cultural and social growth of the Saharan cities has become a concrete reality seen, touched and taken part in by everybody. Saharan cities are endowed with strong and performing infrastructure in terms of urban standard, ports and airports, pavements, roads and bridges, schools, colleges, high schools and training centers, dispensaries, hospitals and private hospitals, stadiums, fields and sport rooms, show and hobbies rooms, etc. Indeed, Southern cities enjoy the same conditions as their North homologues. This enormous effort made, within the framework of the South provinces development Agency, exceeds by far what Spain, the occupying power, has invested since 1884. We are beyond the initial vision of the Sahara of 1975, seen, felt and lived, by the nomad people as well as by those who have chosen to live their as a wide infinite range of desert, intersected of ill-assorted and badly equipped agglomerations and of water points spread along the Saharan roads taken by the dromedaries and camels. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 05 November 2009 )
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UN General Assembly : International support to Morocco |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Monday, 05 October 2009 |
 During the 64th working session of the UN General Assembly held in New York, many Heads of State and delegations have renewed, before the UN floor, their permanent support to the Kingdom of Morocco concerning the country’s territorial integrity and its efforts to reach a fair political solution to the conflict of the Sahara called the Western Sahara. Hence, the Gambian President, Mr. Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh, has been seen in the official stand, strongly reasserting, Thursday evening, in New York, his “total support” to Morocco’s territorial integrity. « My delegation, he emphasized, during his speech at the general debate of the 64th UN General Assembly session, renews its total support to the Kingdom of Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty”. Concerning the Sahara issue, “ we will remain, he added, convinced that the Moroccan government’s proposal to grant a wide autonomy to the Sahara region based on the negotiations initiated by the UN Security Council, conducted and agreed upon by the parties, will lead to a final and peaceful solution of the conflict”. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 05 October 2009 )
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The Polisario : the erosion continues... |
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Written by Abdelhak Fadli
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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 |
 The return of Sheïkh Ahmadou Ould Souilem, Head of Oulad Dlim Tribe and founding member of the Polisario Front, is itself an important event as it concerns the return of the child prodigy to his homeland. The event is still more important, taking into consideration the place he occupies and his being a public figure on the Polisario leading and tribal scene and also taking into consideration the international context and the invitation of the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Mr. Christopher Ross for an informal meeting in Vienna between the parties in conflict, in the presence of the different parties affected by the regional importance of the Saharan conflict. The rallying of this figurehead of the Polisario, independent and respected by all for his strictness and integrity, is the logical result of a long series of the rallying of leaders, senior executives and high ranked militaries of the Polisario to the Sherifian Kingdom, the forgiving and merciful. It confirms one and a unique truth: the Morracanity of the Sahara and the permanent existence of historical, religious, cultural and socio-economic links between the historical Morocco and the Moroccan Sahrawi tribes. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 September 2009 )
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