The French position’s positive evolution, which consolidates the international momentum around the Moroccan Sahara issue, will accelerate and strengthen the strategic and economic partnership between Paris and Rabat, stressed on Saturday the French Geopolitics Expert, Aymeric Chauprade.
“Morocco now has a great deal of weighty support for its sovereignty over the Sahara, but for France there was more than the geopolitical dimension, but also an emotional dimension,” Chauprade told MAP in reaction to King Mohammed VI’s speech at the opening of the new session of Parliament.
In this Speech, the Sovereign welcomed the position of the French Republic, which supports Morocco’s sovereignty over the entire territory of the Sahara and backs the Autonomy Initiative within the framework of Morocco’s territorial integrity, as the sole basis for resolving this artificial regional conflict.
“The two countries’ shared history adds an emotional dimension and Moroccans have since long been unable to understand France’s hesitation. The situation is henceforth clear which will accelerate and strengthen the strategic and economic partnership between our two countries,” added the former French MEP.
The expert welcomed French President Emmanuel Macron’s “excellent” decision in this regard, stressing that it was “an essential and very positive decision for both our countries.”
“This decision is right in terms of international law, in terms of geopolitics, and in line with the long history, because the Sahara has always been Moroccan. It is also in line with the interests of France, which must help Morocco consolidate its sovereignty, as it is in everyone’s interest to have a stable Saharan and Sahelian region,” he said.
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