Rabat (Morocco) April17, 2013(SPS) - the Ambassador of the United States to the Kingdom of Morocco Samuel L. Kaplan said that his country believes that Morocco’s autonomy proposal “can’t be the only basis in these negotiations,” to find a solution to the Western Sahara conflict.
The United Nations and the United States believe that the Moroccan autonomy proposal “can’t be the only basis in the negotiations” between the parties involved in the conflict, namely Morocco and Polisario Front, US Ambassador Kaplan said during a conference-debate, held in Casablanca, on the eve of the end of his diplomatic mission in this country.
Samuel L. Kaplan was appointed in 2009 as the United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco.
He underlined that he had never been to Western Sahara “because, it is still considered by the United Nations as without sovereignty.”
The statement of the US diplomat comes a week before Christopher Ross presents his report on April 22, to the Security Council on the outcomes of his last regional tour, which led him to Morocco, Western Sahara, particularly, in the cities of Al-Ayun, Dakhla and then to Algeria and Mauritania.(SPS)
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