Morocco remains committed to the negotiations underway with the Algerian separitist movement Polisario, but remains fully intransigent over its territorial integrity, members of the Morocco delegation to the UN-facilitated negotiations on the Sahara said last Tuesday night.
The Moroccan delegation reiterated the Kingdom's commitment to pursue these negotiations with an'open-minded approach" and "good faith", in order toreach a final solution to the 32-year olddispute over the former Spanish colony.
They, however, made it clear that Morocco will not accept any fait accompli imposed by the separatistsor any attempt to alter the reality or the status quo at the east of the Defense Wall erected by Morocco's in the early eighties toprevent any attack of the Polisario. The latter had waged against Morocco until 1991 when the United Nations brokered a ceasefire.
During the the press conference, the Moroccan Minister of the Interior reiterated that the kindom's proposal to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern Provinces, the Sahara, is a '' historical solution of compromise that enables a win-win way out and afinal settlement of the conflict, which respects the international legality and takes into account the regional and local realities"
HAMID BENBELLA
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