HIBAPRESS – Shafiq Annouri
A post by former Algerian Minister and thinker, Nourredine Bokrouh, exposed the real reasons that pushed his country's officials to cling for 50 years to prolonging the Moroccan Sahara conflict.
Bokrouh said in a post published on his "Facebook" account that the Moroccan constitution does not recognize the current borders of the country, but rather stipulates that "the King is the guarantor of the country's independence, and the Kingdom's domain within the circle of its true borders." Bokrouh considered that this matter raises "a problem in relations" because the phrase means that "Morocco does not recognize its current borders, those that it has known internationally since 1956, and that it does not consider them to be true." The former Algerian minister confirmed that the expected peace agreement between the two countries "should not ignore these data, because they contain the roots of public anxiety, and the sources of the danger of war in the Maghreb," as he put it. The post reveals that the major fears of Algeria, which were its main motivation in trying to prolong the Sahara conflict, are mainly related to the Eastern Sahara, and are not related to the southern provinces of the Kingdom. Algeria fears that if Morocco is able to resolve the southern provinces dispute, it will open the Eastern Sahara file, which was cut off by the French occupation and annexed to its eastern neighbor.
