New York, 13, 2016 (SPS) - Confidential documents revealed how Morocco bribed foreign petitioners to so that they support the Moroccan position on Western Sahara at the UN.
Several documents of the Moroccan Foreign Affairs Ministry and Representation to the United National reveal the extent of this operation aiming at deceiving the international community's opinion on Western Sahara.
Obtained by the hacker Chris Coleman, who had already revealed many secrets related to the conflict of Western Sahara, the documents provide details of this vast corruption operation: "choice of petitioners and themes of interventions and the amounts paid to stakeholders to take the floor and defend the colonial policy of Morocco before the UN decolonization Committee."
The documents also reveal the confrontation strategy set up by Morocco to undermine the actions of the Polisario Front within the UN.
In a classified confidential correspondence dated in 2012, the Foreign Affairs Ministry instructed the director general of the Morocco agency for international cooperation to bribe six petitioners who had to support Morocco's position within the UN.
In another document of Morocco's Foreign Ministry, the names of selected petitioners and themes they must broach. The document illustrates the great manipulation by Rabat that dictates the content of petitioners' speeches at the Fourth Committee.
Moreover, in a third document, entitled framing note and devoted to the issues and objectives of Morocco at the 69th UN General Assembly held in 2014, "the Foreign Ministry has drawn a line of conduct for Moroccan diplomats to counter the Polisario Front and Algeria at the United Nations. "
The Moroccan Foreign Ministry even asked the Moroccan delegation at the fourth Committee of decolonization to "adopt a confrontation and combat strategy in order to prevent Algeria and the Polisario Front from an opportunity to defend."SPS
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