Poland, Paraguay and Cambodia support Morocco’s autonomy plan for Sahara

Poland considers the autonomy plan, proposed by Morocco in 2007, to be “a serious, realistic, and pragmatic basis for a lasting settlement” of the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.

Poland’s support for the Moroccan autonomy initiative in the Sahara

This new Polish position was expressed by Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Radosław Sikorski in a joint statement issued Tuesday following a telephone conversation with Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccans Abroad.

Poland’s support for the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative joins that of many European Union member states. Twenty-three EU member states and more than 120 other countries now support a lasting solution within the framework of autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, Morocco World News said.

Cambodia

For its part, Cambodia expressed its support for the Moroccan autonomy plan in the Joint statement signed by Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn, following their videoconference meeting.

“While welcoming Morocco’s efforts to achieve a negotiated political solution to this regional dispute through the Autonomy Plan submitted by Morocco in 2007, Prak Sokhonn reiterated Cambodia’s full support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Morocco,” the joint communiqué stated.

In this context, Cambodia “commended Morocco’s serious, realistic, and credible efforts” to end this regional dispute, while expressing its full support “for the efforts undertaken by the UN Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy for the Sahara, which are consistent with the parameters of the relevant Security Council resolutions on this issue,” the statement noted.