Mr. Chabar said this is a political problem which is now considered as such by the United Nations Security Council.

Reacting to the Algerian representative who described Morocco as "occupying power", the diplomat criticized the untruths delivered each time by Algerian officials on this issue.

"The Algerian speech contains, as usual, historical falsehoods," he said, stressing that "no report of the Secretary General of the United Nations nor the Security Council resolutions nor the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice designated Morocco as an occupying power."

He said that "the process of decolonization of the Sahara was duly done," recalling in this regard that the Madrid Agreement concluded in 1975 in Laayoune, has allowed the consolidation of the Kingdom's sovereignty over the whole of the Sahara and that the Local Assembly, or Jemâa meeting in February 1976, expressed "full satisfaction and total approval for the decolonization of the territory."

In addition, the diplomat noted that "while recognizing the validity of the three channels of expression of self-determination as contained in resolution 1541 (1960) of the General Assembly, Algeria has consistently presented a biased and selective reading of the resolution by linking self-determination solely and exclusively to independence, when autonomy is perceived by the international legal community as a modern and democratic means allowing effective exercise of the right to self-determination, agreed upon by Morocco. "

Source: MAP
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