Polisario Rejects King Mohammed VI’s Peace Overture in Western Sahara Dispute

"The speech of King Mohammed VI on the occasion of the throne feast totally contradicts the actions of Morocco and aims only to gain more time to bring in more military equipment and prepare all the conspiracies and intrigues against the Sahrawi people, the peoples of the region and the African continent," commented the Sahrawi "Ministry" of Information in a statement. According to him, the king’s speech is "characterized by risky and exaggerated sweet words, in order to deliberately conceal his cause of the return of war in the region due to his denial of the peace agreement he had signed with the Sahrawi party."

In his speech, "the King of Morocco tried to present his aggressive and expansionist regime as aspiring to peace, stability, cooperation and brotherhood at a time when the whole world knows that Morocco, since 1975, the date of its military invasion of the territory of the "Sahrawi Republic", has become a state that constitutes a threat to the security and stability of the entire region and its expansionist war is the only reason that hinders the economic and political integration of the Maghreb," the statement said.

"The sabotage of the ceasefire, the return of war and the obstruction of the efforts of the international community to bring peace between Morocco and the "Sahrawi Republic" by respecting the requirements of international legality enshrined in the United Nations Charter and the Constitutive Act of the African Union and their resolutions are what proves that the speech is nothing more than a concealment of an existing reality that threatens to intensify military and diplomatic confrontations as long as Morocco insists on engaging in all kinds of threatening markets that have brought foreign bodies into the region," the statement continues.

The "Sahrawi government" also calls on Morocco "to end its occupation and open a page that would allow peace between all on the basis of respect for the national and territorial integrity of each country."