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Algeria-Morocco: The flight ahead of Morocco's king Mohammed VI
08/11/2021 Algérie
Speaking on the occasion of what is called "the green march," there was no word in the king's statement on this matter, although it is his army that is singled out.
The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, evaded, during his speech on Saturday evening, the assassination of three Algerians, truck drivers, in an attack by the Moroccan occupation forces on liberated Saharawi territory.
Speaking on the occasion of what is called "the green march", there was no word in the king's declaration on this matter, even though there had been deaths of men and it was is his army which is singled out.
The slightest diplomatic consideration would have wanted Mohammed VI to speak out on the subject which deeply moved Algeria and exacerbated the crisis between the two countries.
In doing so, the Moroccan sovereign made it known that he and his monarchy have no intention of working to reduce the tension that reigns today, while all the elements currently available underline the direct responsibility of the army. Moroccan woman in the deadly attack on unarmed civilians.
Several factors point to the Moroccan occupation forces in Western Sahara as having committed this cowardly assassination with sophisticated weaponry through this new manifestation of brutal aggression which is characteristic of a known policy of territorial expansion and terror", had indicated the Presidency of the Republic on Wednesday 3 November.
On Thursday, November 4, speaking at a weekly press briefing, Moroccan government spokesman Mustapha Bitas also overlooked the issue.
"Morocco still sticks to the principle of good neighborliness with all, based on respect," he simply said in response to a question on the subject. Despite the serious accusations, Morocco has therefore chosen to opt for silence. An attitude which tends to become the rule lately apparently.
This was the case, in particular, after the affair of the note distributed to members of the Non-Aligned Organization on July 13 in New York by a Moroccan diplomat, in which he referred to "the right to self-determination of Kabylia ”.
The Algerian foreign ministry had approached the Moroccan authorities for an explanation, but no response was received.
THE PEGASUS SCANDAL
There was subsequently the spy scandal, Pegasus, named after the Israeli software and which, according to international media, was used by, among others, Morocco to spy on Algerian civilian and military officials or the statement made on August 12, from Morocco and in the presence of the head of Moroccan diplomacy, by the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yaïr Lapid, who had expressed his "concerns about the role played by Algeria in the region".
Despite the protests expressed by Algiers, via communiques either from the High Security Council (HCS) or from the Foreign Ministry, Morocco did not react. This was what led to Algeria’s announcement on August 24 that it was severing diplomatic relations with the western neighbor.
Thus, on Saturday evening, the Moroccan king did not derogate from this "rule" of evading this important crisis. On the other hand, he took the opportunity to reaffirm once again the "Moroccanness" of Western Sahara, a territory which, according to him, "is not to be negotiated". "If we engage in negotiations, it is essentially to achieve a peaceful settlement of this artificial regional conflict," he added, when the UN had decided on a self-determination referendum, yet signed by Morocco, since 1991.
"The Saharawi people who accepted permanent peace with the Kingdom of Morocco by signing the settlement plan in 1991, after 16 years of war, will not stop their struggle as long as Morocco does not put an end to its aggression and its illegal occupation of the territory of the Saharawi Republic ", reacted yesterday the SADR Ministry of Communication for whom the Moroccan king's speech is" a mixture of sophisms, inventions and illusions to justify intransigence, arrogance and adventurism ”.
Abdelghani Aïchoun
El Watan, 08/11/2021