Heba Press/. Rabat
Experts believe that Morocco has no objection to renewing its fishing expenditure with the European Union, but it sets certain conditions, the first of which is that they include its entire territory, including the Sahara.
On this subject, Ahmed Nour El-Din, advisor to the former Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and expert in international relations, declared: “Morocco refuses to sign any protocol or agreement with any party, whether it is the European Union or any other country, if this party does not recognize the sovereignty of Morocco.” On its provinces in the south of the Moroccan Sahara.
He added: “Morocco does not consider that it is concerned by an obstruction of the agreement, because the European Commission had already signed the framework agreement in 2019, under conditions that respect Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara.” The problem is that on each occasion to renew the protocol, associations registered in Europe, affiliated with Algeria, file lawsuits before the European courts to overturn the agreement or the protocol, because, according to their claims, it includes areas whose sovereignty is contested.
He stressed that “previous decisions have been made by several European courts, refusing to accept the case due to the lack of capacity of the plaintiff.”
Regarding Morocco’s demands for the renewal of the agreement, Noureddine noted that “from a political point of view, Morocco wants the European Union to put an end to this blackmail that is being exerted on it through the European courts, knowing that they have already rendered decisions on the same subject,” the same spokesperson told Sputnik.
