This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress / Press release
The day of December 18 was very painful for the adversaries of the territorial integrity of Morocco. In the space of just a few hours, they received, in quick succession, strong positions from Chile and Malta, supporting the autonomy initiative presented by Morocco to definitively close this artificial regional dispute around the Moroccan nature of the Sahara.
Chile, whose Minister of Foreign Affairs is making a working visit to Morocco and meeting his counterpart Nasser Bourita, has positioned itself clearly in favor of a political solution “within the framework of the (autonomy) initiative presented by Morocco at the United Nations in 2007.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile reiterated, this Wednesday, “Chile’s constant support for the process led by the United Nations with a view to a just, pragmatic, lasting, realistic, viable, definitive and mutually acceptable solution to the Question of Western Sahara, as part of the initiative presented by Morocco to the United Nations in April 2007.
On the European level, Malta, which is celebrating 50 years of diplomatic relations with Morocco, considered the Autonomy Plan presented by Morocco in 2007 as “a good basis for a definitive resolution”.
This strengthening of position was noted in a Joint Communiqué sanctioning the meeting by videoconference, today December 18, 2024, between Mr. Ian Borg, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism of Malta, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs , African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad, Mr. Nasser Bourita.
Malta thus joins the twenty member countries of the European Union, in this position favorable to the Moroccan autonomy initiative.
The international dynamic driven by His Majesty the King in favor of autonomy, within the framework of the sovereignty of the Kingdom over its southern provinces, has taken on a global scale, with more than 115 countries from all regions and continents: Africa, Arab world, Europe, Americas, Asia.
