Venezuela May Shift Stance on Western Sahara Dispute, Official Says

The country intends to "reconsider its recognition of the SADR under the government of interim President Juan Guaido," said the foreign affairs advisor to the Venezuelan National Assembly, a body controlled by the opposition.

In a statement to the MAP, Manuel Avendano thus explained that "the recognition of the SADR is more related to left-wing ideological causes, rather than to a genuine quest for a peaceful and political solution to the dispute over the Sahara," assuring that his country’s priority is to "restore its relations with Morocco, given the common denominators and the shared history between the two countries."

Yesterday, the interim president, Juan Guaido, expressed, during a telephone interview with Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, his willingness to relaunch, on a sound and serene basis, the cooperation relations between Morocco and Venezuela, and to remove the obstacles that may have marred their development.