Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), May 13, 2015 (SPS) - France and Spain are responsible for the status quo in Western Sahara by preventing any prospects of solution to the conflict in this territory occupied since about forty years by Morocco, said Wednesday, in Chahid Al-Hafed (Sahrawi refugee camps), the Saharawi coordinator with MINURSO, M'hamed Kheddad.
“These two countries (France and Spain) have the historical responsibility to perpetuate the conflict in Western Sahara by preventing any prospect of solution to this conflict in this territory occupied by Morocco,” Kheddad told Algerian Press Service (APS).
He said that “Spain failed to its responsibilities in 1975 for not enforcing the international legality by the organization of a self-determination referendum in Western Sahara.”
“For its part, France, supported Morocco and the Mauritanian regime of Mokhtar Ould Daddah at the time, by militarily intervening on the ground with its Jaguar planes against the Polisario Front fighters,” he recalled, explaining that “France blocked the implementation of UN resolutions relating to the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.”
For Khaddad, “geopolitical calculations and sordid interests that brought these two European powers to prevent any breakthrough towards a solution to the conflict by supporting the Moroccan regime at the level of European and international bodies.” (SPS)
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