Research paper highlights feasibility, realism of Morocco's Autonomy Plan for the Sahara

Research paper highlights feasibility, realism of Morocco's Autonomy Plan for the Sahara
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Friday 30 June 2023 - 18:07

Published in the Journal of African Studies and the Nile Basin latest edition, a research study by Ali Doumi suggests that autonomy might be a realistic solution to the Moroccan Sahara crisis that the United Nations is still trying to solve, as the researcher studies the realism of the proposal.

In its negotiations to resolve the conflict over the Sahara region, Moroccan diplomacy advanced the idea of autonomy as a workable resolution; as a result, the political vocabulary and negotiating discourse of Morocco, whether in the context of international organizations or bilateral relations, with parties supporting or opposing the Moroccan proposal, have become based on this idea. 

Spanish recognition of Morocco’s right to sovereignty over its southern areas, which is supported by historical proof of the Sahara’s Moroccanness, is one of the most recent developments in this Sahara conflict.

The essay outlined Morocco’s emphasis on autonomy as a workable resolution, particularly after trying out all other ideas for resolving international conflicts, like a referendum or partition.

The writer continues, although all the geostrategic factors driving this struggle changed in 1974, the Polisario Front and several of the countries that support it continued to hold fast to the concept of secession at a time when the Kingdom created a strategy for ending this fight.

The concept of autonomy, however, is covered by international agreements that resolve conflicts involving the right to self-determination, so Morocco has not produced a novel international legal principle by presenting a well-established principle that is appropriate for the circumstances of this conflict.

The paper concluded that the Kingdom made various efforts to achieve significant political outcomes, which were represented by the acknowledgment of the weight and feasibility of the autonomy proposal by several nations, and that it also triumphed in numerous legal battles pertaining to this debate.

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