Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 12:51 PM
Buenos Aires – Strong support for Morocco’s intervention in El Guerguerat, clear support for a realistic and pragmatic solution within the framework of the autonomy plan, growing support for serious and credible efforts by Morocco and cascading withdrawals of the recognition of nickname “rasd”. In South America, 2020 will have been as good a year for the Kingdom as it is a nightmare for the Polisario and his Algerian mentor.
Where, in the past, the separatist group lured, sometimes by lies, sometimes by deception, the Latin American countries now make an assessment as just as relevant of the real foundations of an artificial conflict, relic of the Cold War and vestige of ‘a time gone forever.
Irritated by Security Council resolution 2548 and Morocco’s diplomatic successes, the Polisario wanted, through its outdated and discredited maneuvers, to once again arouse sympathy or interest in its antiquated separatist fantasies. However, he will only have harvested the storm. The growing support enjoyed by the Kingdom from South American countries thus breaks and undoes once and for all fallacious theses, which were rumored by Algerian-Polisarian propaganda in the subcontinent.
The first reaction came from Brazil, which called for an unimpeded guarantee of traffic and trade flows via the El Guerguerat passage.
Country of great influence in its region whose president had qualified Morocco, during the Brazil-Arab Countries Forum, as a “strategic partner”, Brazil reiterated on November 18, 2020, through the Ministry of External Relations, its support for the process. policy under the auspices of the United Nations for a just and mutually acceptable solution and its rejection of the use of violence and the violation of the ceasefire in force since 1991.
When the separatists were pulled up by Brazil, they had not yet recovered from the decision of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, four days earlier, to withdraw its recognition of the pseudo “rasd” and to support it. autonomy initiative proposed by Morocco.
Thus, thanks to the impetus given by HM King Mohammed VI, the international dynamic of support for the Moroccan position continues, at a time when the separatist thesis is dying, as confirmed by Suriname, whose new authorities have reiterated their position expressed in March 2016, relating to the withdrawal of recognition of the pseudo “rasd” and displayed their clear and unambiguous support for a political solution, within the framework of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Morocco.
In Colombia, the Colombian Ministry of External Relations called for allowing and maintaining the free movement of goods and people at the El Guergarat border post, while stressing its concern over the acts recorded there and reiterating its support for the efforts for a negotiated, just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution.
Also from Bogotá, the new president of the Colombian House of Representatives, Germán Alcides Blanco Álvarez, reaffirmed last September his “full support” for Morocco’s supreme interests, in particular the question of the territorial integrity of the Kingdom.
Previously, last February, the Deputy Minister of Multilateral Affairs, Adriana Mejia Hernandez, visiting Morocco, reiterated her country’s support for Morocco’s position in order to reach a solution to the Sahara issue.
The year 2020 was also marked by the decision of Bolivia, which decided, on January 20, to withdraw its recognition of the puppet republic and to “sever all its links” with the factitious entity at the obsolete oratory. . Bolivia has also affirmed that it will adopt the principle of “constructive neutrality” with regard to the artificial conflict around the Moroccan Sahara.
In Uruguay, President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou expressed, at the beginning of last March in Montevideo, his desire to raise the level of cooperation relations with Morocco, on the occasion of the reception of the President of the Chamber of Councilors, Hakim Benchamach, who represented HM King Mohammed VI at the investiture ceremony of the new head of state.
Support for Morocco in the El Guerguerat affair was also expressed by the Committee on External Relations of the Chamber of Deputies of Paraguay which welcomed the actions and sovereign measures taken by Morocco which made it possible to restore free civil movement. and commercial, expressing its support for the autonomy plan proposed by the Kingdom.
The Paraguayan Chamber of Deputies adopted in December a new resolution in favor of the territorial integrity of Morocco and its sovereignty over its southern provinces, expressing its support for the autonomy plan as the only political solution to this artificial conflict around the Sahara. Moroccan.
For its part, the Peruvian parliament welcomed the intervention of Morocco to restore security in the region of El Guerguerat after the destabilization maneuvers carried out by the Polisario at the level of the Moroccan-Mauritanian border, calling on the international community to end to these provocation.
Parliament also pleaded for a political, realistic, practical and lasting solution to the regional dispute over the Sahara, within the framework of the autonomy initiative presented by Morocco.
Also, Venezuela was not left out. The Standing Committee on Foreign Policy, Sovereignty and Integration in the National Assembly of Venezuela expressed its support for Morocco’s intervention in El Guerguerat and reiterated its “condemnation of the illegitimate Chavist regime’s support for the separatists of polisario.
In Chile, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, Diego Paulsen Kehr and a number of former presidents and representatives of the Chilean National Congress expressed, in a message to the President of the House of Representatives, Habib El Malki, their support for the operation carried out by the Royal Armed Forces, qualifying it as “perfectly healthy and successful”.
Also, last February Chile reiterated, through the President of the Chilean Senate, Jaime Quintana, visiting Laâyoune and Rabat expressed its support for the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco.
This is how the South American countries, some of which once allowed themselves to be deceived by the victim discourse of the Polisario and his Algerian mentor, have shown those who still refuse to admit it, that times have changed and that the Cold war era is over.
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