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Before the UN Committee of 24 (C-24), Morocco’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Majda Moutchou, exposed the selective and fallacious rhetoric Algeria is resorting in order to evade its historical and unequivocal responsibility in the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.
Exercising the right of reply during the regular session of this Committee, held from June 9 to 20 in New York, the Moroccan diplomat noted that Algeria, by so doing, is seeking in vain to mislead the international community and is only reinforcing its well-established role as the main party to this artificial conflict and exposing its hegemonic ambitions in the region.
She recalled that this country, which is cited as many times as Morocco in the latest Security Council resolution, itself acknowledged this reality in the letter addressed by its former ambassador to the UN to the Council in November 1975, when the latter explicitly emphasized that the parties concerned and interested in the Sahara issue were Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania.
The diplomat further indicated that Algeria has even resorted to economic retaliation against countries that support the Moroccaness of the Sahara and the Autonomy initiative, pointing out that it was indeed Algeria that created the so-called “polisario,” which shelters, arms, and finances it.
In a second right of reply debunking the myth of the so-called referendum rehashed by the Algerian delegation, Majda Moutchou recalled that this idea was completely buried, not by Morocco, but by the United Nations, which concluded that it was inapplicable.
Responding to the Algerian delegation’s repeated mention of the right to self-determination, the Moroccan diplomat underlined that this right can take many forms, including autonomy, noting that the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative therefore offers the only credible, mutually acceptable path to self-determination, through negotiation and not confrontation.
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