Shaheed El Hafed (Saharawi refugee camps), November 14, 2013 (SPS) - Madrid agreements of November 14, 1975 block relationships between the Maghreb region countries, said Thursday member of National Secretriat of the Polisario Front in charge of the political organization, Bachir Mustapha Essayd, saying that Morocco is the "only" responsible for the instability in the region.
"One of the implications of these agreements is the obstructing of the relations between countries of the region, undermining its stability and its tranquility," said Essayd, in an interview with Algerian Press Service on the occasion of the 38th anniversary of the Madrid agreements, adding that "Morocco is the only responsible for the instability in the region."
The Madrid Agreements, signed on November 14, 1975 between Spain, Morocco and Mauritania, have established the conditions for the withdrawal of Spain from Sahrawi territories and their partition between Morocco and Mauritania, in defiance of international law.
"These agreements stand as an obstacle to all Maghreb countries," the Minister of Sahrawi state stressed.
"We cannot trust it (Morocco) when you know it has had no qualms about attacking military first Algeria in 1963 and then Mauritania," he said.
Describing November 14, the date of signing of Madrid Agreement, as "dark day in the history of Muslim and Arab peoples," the leading member of the Polisario said that through these agreements Spain gave Western Sahara to Morocco as "an offering."
"Spain gave the territory to Morocco that did not belong to it," he argued, noting that the colonial power which administered territory of Western Sahara, Spain, "had no sovereignty over these territories." (SPS)
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