HIBAPRESS – Chafiq Annouri
Former Peruvian Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Mackay has called on Algeria to abandon its intransigence regarding the Moroccan Sahara dispute and accept a solution to the file within the framework of autonomy, given the positive repercussions for the North African region.
In an analytical article published on the "Expreso" website, Mackay highlighted the new resolution that the UN Security Council is preparing to issue regarding the Sahara issue, stressing that the international community is moving towards recognizing Morocco's sovereignty over its southern territories and adopting the autonomy proposal as a "realistic, serious, and permanent" solution to the fabricated conflict. The former Peruvian diplomat explained that "the Algerian regime and its separatist entity, the Polisario, in addition to the so-called Sahrawi Republic, have for fifty years formed tools of a conspiracy aimed at preventing the Kingdom of Morocco from consolidating its historical and legitimate sovereignty over the Sahara." Mackay stressed that the continuation of this path has produced nothing but "instability in the Maghreb region and a negative impact on the path of development in Africa," pointing out that the majority of member states in the United Nations, including most permanent members of the Security Council such as the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Russia, support the Moroccan position. Mackay highlighted that "the people of the Sahara are living under the full exercise of their rights and a quality of life that cannot be challenged," stressing that the world is "turning the page on the past" and that insisting on talking about decolonization has become "outdated, old, and contradictory" because Morocco's independence in 1956 effectively ended that phase. He concluded by saying that Algeria must "look at itself in the mirror of international reality and change its obstinate position" and accept the autonomy initiative, which paves the way for genuine integration in the Arab Maghreb region, considering that the expected resolution from the United Nations "is fully in line with the will of the international community and with international law, which has become more in line with the Moroccan position."
