Spanish Legal Experts Condemn Government’s Western Sahara Policy Shift

"This decision implies the implicit recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the part of Western Sahara that it illegally occupies," the association denounced after learning of Pedro Sanchez’s letter to King Mohammed VI on March 14, in which he considers the Moroccan autonomy plan as the "most serious, credible and realistic" solution to the conflict in the Sahara.

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According to the experts, "the decision of the Spanish government to officially support the autonomy plan proposed by Morocco in 2007 constitutes the manifest denial of the exercise of the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people and, consequently, a serious violation of international law."

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The association also estimated that this autonomy plan is "impossible to apply" to the entire Western Sahara insofar as "currently, part of the territory is under Moroccan occupation and another is controlled by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic."