Secretary General of the Association
*Attadamoun Elwahdaoui
in Boujdour city*
06/11/2009/ Boujdour /Moroccan Sahara
Ent.stomatakos@gmail.com
Tel : 212 666 05 00 80
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Dear Sir/Madam
we would be very grateful to you if you would publish this article
06/11/2009 is the 34th anniversary of the glorious Green March in Morocco. In 1975 , 350,000 Morrocans walked peacefully towards Sahara, then under Spanish occupation, to rgain the Moroccan territory.Today, the whole nation celebrate the occasion in a spirit of deep gratitude, loyalty and commitment to the preservation of the Kingdom’s territorial integrity, and to the country’s sovereignty. This commitment is best reflected by the close bond between the Throne and the people, and by the nation’s unwavering unanimity on its founding principles.
The commemoration of this epoch-making event gives Moroccans the fortitude and inspiration they need to confront, in a wise, resolute manner, the conspiracies hatched by the adversaries of the Moroccanness of the Sahara, in the light of the ambitious modernisation and development programmes undertaken in Morocco under H.M. King Mohammed VI over the past decade.
It should be remembered that the Kingdom of Morocco launched an innovative and imaginative plan, in April 2007, to offer its Southern Provinces of the Sahara autonomy and self-determination within the context of Moroccan Sovereignty.Many great countries such as The United States and France reiterate that Morocco's proposal to grant substantial autonomy to its Southern provinces, known as the Sahara, is likely to help find a solution to the 35-year dispute over the former Spanish colony, with Washington dismissing as "unrealistic" the establishment of an independent state in the region as called for by the Polisario separatists and their mentor Algeria.The Moroccan proposal offers the people of the Sahara, the Sahrawis, the opportunity to run their own affairs democratically through their representative legislative, executive and judicial bodies, while benefiting from Moroccan sovereignty in matters of foreign affairs and defence.This Initiative for the Sahara region will enable the Sahrawi People to achieve self-determination through free, modern and democratic means, and accords with both international law and internationally accepted norms and standards. It is the resolution of this thirty-five-year conflict, that will facilitate the economic and democratic development of the whole Maghreb and help to promote peace, security and stability in North Africa.
The Initiative was launched to overcome the deadlock in United Nations’ mediated negotiations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Republic of Algeria and their proxy the Polisario Front. As the work of several United Nations’ Secretaries-General and their Personal Envoys to the region have failed to reach a mutually-acceptable solution, the Kingdom of Morocco drew up the Initiative for negotiated autonomy for the Sahara to reach a lasting political solution to the conflict.