France publishes a map that includes Western Sahara as part of Morocco

MADRID 29 Oct. () –

The Government of France published this Tuesday a map that includes Western Sahara as part of Morocco after Paris recognized in July Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahrawi territory as the “only basis to achieve a just political solution” to the conflict.

“As part of the impulse given by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God help him, to the national cause and the positive dynamics it is experiencing internationally, today the map has been published on the official website of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. official of Morocco that integrates its Sahara,” indicated the Moroccan Foreign Ministry in a message published on the social network X.

This comes after the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, has reaffirmed before the Moroccan Parliament that “the present and future” of Western Sahara is framed within “Moroccan sovereignty”, a position that he has committed to defend. in different international bodies and which takes as a reference the autonomy plan presented in 2007 by King Mohamed VI.

The former Spanish colony of Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco in 1975 despite the resistance of the Polisario Front, with whom it remained at war until 1991, when both parties signed a ceasefire with a view to holding a self-determination referendum. The differences over the preparation of the census and the inclusion or not of Moroccan settlers have prevented it from being called so far.

The last setback for the Sahrawi people was the support of the Spanish and French governments for the Moroccan autonomy plan, a change of position described as betrayal by the Polisario Front, which also recalls that Spain is still ‘de jure’ the administrative power of the Sahara. Western.