The ambassador, permanent representative of Morocco to the United Nations, Omar Hilale, denounced the instrumentalization of the African Union by South Africa. The Moroccan diplomat sent a letter to the permanent representative of the United Nations Organization in which he denounced Pretoria’s crusade against the Moroccanness of the Sahara.
A senior Polisario official has stated that the "war will continue" in the Sahara.
Naledi Pandor, South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, who had expressed her opposition to the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara, calls on the new US President to cancel the decision of his predecessor.
The normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and four Arab countries, including Morocco , was the subject of discussions between the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan and his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat. It emerges that the United States supports these agreements, and by extension the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara.
The American recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara continues to provoke reactions. Robert Malley, president of the International Crisis Group, also a former adviser to US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, says this decision "has a negative impact on this Sahara file".
The Polisario militiamen allegedly struck the Guerguerat buffer zone, located near the border with Mauritania, on Saturday, January 23, 2021.
The Algerian Minister of Communication and government spokesman, Ammar Belhimer, attacked Morocco and the agreement to normalize its relations with Israel.
Morocco seems to be conditioning the implementation of its normalization agreement with Israel on the position of the new US President, Joe Biden, on the American recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara.
The Algerian ambassador to Paris, Mohamed-Antar Daoud, expressed his anger and surprise following the publication of a recent article in the French magazine Le Point . The weekly mentions that "Tindouf is a province of the Sahara under the administration of the Polisario Front and bordering Morocco ".
The Algerian lobby seems to be pulling out all the stops against the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara. The Biden administration is not yielding to the pressure.
The Polisario expresses its willingness to resume UN negotiations on the status of Western Sahara but does not give up armed struggle.
The new President of the United States, Joe Biden, is said to have welcomed the US recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara and the normalization of diplomatic relations between the kingdom and Israel.