Before the Fourth Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, the Ambassador Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, highlighted on Tuesday, the spectacular and multisectoral boom in the Sahara, which places the southern provinces of the Kingdom among the most developed regions of Africa.
“Morocco has chosen to look to the future instead of stagnating in the past. Although strongly attached to the UN political process, my country has taken the firm decision not to wait for its outcome to ensure socio-economic, political and cultural development of its Sahara, as for all the other regions of the Kingdom”, noted Hilale before the members of the Committee.
He stressed that, like other populations in the world, the Sahara population also has a legitimate right to development. A right enshrined in all conventions and human rights instruments. “It is within this framework that my country has been promoting, since the recovery of its southern provinces, the full emancipation of this region,” said the ambassador.
“The facts, figures and achievements are there, to attest to the spectacular and multisectoral boom in the Sahara, and which places these southern provinces of the Kingdom, not only among the most developed regions of Morocco and the Maghreb, but of the entire African continent, said Hilale.
Morocco pays particular attention to the participation of local populations, at all levels, in decision-making on issues that concern them. Thus, the populations of the Moroccan Sahara elected their legitimate representatives, at the local and national levels, during the elections of 2015 and 2016, recalled the Moroccan diplomat.
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