The Polisario highlights that Spain’s turn does not change that Western Sahara is a territory to be decolonized

MADRID, March 20. (Royals Blue) –

The Polisario Front recalled this Sunday that Spain’s support for the Moroccan autonomy plan does not change the fact that from the point of view of International Law, Western Sahara continues to be a non-autonomous territory for which a decolonization process must be completed. .

President Pedro Sánchez’s message to Mohamed VI “does not change the legal status of Western Sahara, considered a non-autonomous territory” and “nor does it change the will of the Saharawi people to build an independent state in all the occupied territories”, highlighted the spokesperson of the Presidency of the self-proclaimed Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Nana Labat Rachid, in statements to the Algerian press.

In addition, Rachid has also pointed to the “division” in the Spanish political scene in the face of Sánchez’s “unilateral decision” and has warned that he will have to “be accountable” before Parliament, where the Saharawi cause has support.

The Saharawi leader has attributed the change in position to “blackmail” from Morocco and its “constant threat of flooding Madrid with illegal immigrants.” “It seems that Moroccan blackmail is more important than the law in Spain,” she pointed out, according to the Algerian news agency APS.

For his part, the Saharawi representative to the EU, Abi Bucharaya al Bashir, has warned that Spain “cannot unilaterally evade its responsibilities and commitments derived from its unique relationship” with the Saharawi people after eight decades of colonization.

In addition, Al Bashir has highlighted the “unanimous condemnation of the vast majority of political parties in Spain” although he acknowledges that it has served to “reestablish relations between Spain and the Kingdom of Morocco after more than three years of tension”.

In any case, Spain “is no longer in a position to play any credible role in the search for a political settlement of the conflict (…) because it has publicly adopted the position of one of the parties.”