Separatist Polisario leaders followed during a visit by UN envoy Staffan De Mistura the same “self-determination” rhetoric, despite many international variables taking shape around the Sahara issue.
De Mistura’s visits to the Tindouf camps will last for two days, during which he will discuss the political process with several parties.
Mohamed Omar, one of the Polisario’s “foreign relations” officials reiterated the front’s arguments on “the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination and independence.”
By speaking before De Mistura, the Polisario chose to escalate things with European parties by bringing up the fact that Spain could not contribute “positively” to the peace process by “allying with Morocco’s position,” referring to Madrid’s support for the autonomy plan in the Moroccan Sahara.
The UN envoy finds great difficulties in managing this file, especially because of the stagnation of the “Polisario” and its “self-determination” principle, despite diplomatic moves in support of a better solution to autonomy, coming from major countries’ capitals such as Washington, Madrid, and Berlin.
In addition to the international support for the autonomy plan, the fictitious “war statements” launched by the Polisario Front over the past periods form a threat to any political process in the region led by the UN envoy, especially since the Polisario Front announced a “cessation of the ceasefire agreement,” according to officials of separatist organization settled in Algeria.
Hicham Moatadid, a research professor in international relations, said that De Mistura’s meetings with the Polisario Front will not change anything in the course of the settlement and the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, as long as the ideological framework that dominates the political vision of the front’s leadership is a separatist proposal that is “not realistically possible”, and is very far from any facts related to the file Moroccan Sahara.
He added to Hespress that this attachment to the idea of secession is linked to a vision that fully contradicts the developments on the ground and the historical rights of the Sahara.
The same spokesman declared that the fact that the Front maintained the same separatist approach, in the context of many countries changing their positions on the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, proves once again the limited political orientation of the Polisario leadership, and its unwillingness to keep pace with the geostrategic developments of this file.
He pointed out that the file is moving towards global support for the Moroccan Sahara, especially since Morocco presented the autonomy proposal, which showed the international organization the spirit of political responsibility and diplomatic courage in Rabat.
He added that this political rigidity to which the leadership of the Front is clinging, distorts the course of the political history of the Sahara issue, in addition to its implementation of a foreign agenda that threatens the security stability of the region.
Moatadid continued by saying that “During his visit, De Mistura will seek to test the pulse of the front’s leadership, and give the Polisario another opportunity for political awakening and responsible engagement in finding a final solution to this file, away from diplomatic hallucinations that distance it from international political reality and historical facts in the region.”
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