Algeria called to stop interfering in Moroccan sahara issue
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 7/4/2000

The Secretary-General of the Istiqlal Party (PI, in government) has called on Algeria to stop interfering in the Moroccan Sahara issue.

Algeria has to stop interfering in the Moroccan Sahara to ease the Maghreban integration process, Abbas El Fassi, told a meeting of his party's central committee.

The Sahara will remain Moroccan territory and all Sahrawis should participate in the referendum, El Fassi said, underlining the entire Moroccan people mobilization for the perfection of the Kingdom's territorial integrity.

Algeria is granting diplomatic and material backing to the Polisario front, a separatist group (based in south-western Algeria) claiming sovereignty over the Moroccan southern provinces.

The PI leader lauded the statement made by King Mohammed VI in his first exclusive interview with the US Time magazine, wherein the king stressed that the Sahara issue was artificially created by Algeria.

El Fassi underlined that several countries recognize the legitimacy of Morocco's rights over the Sahara. The separatist entity is now doomed to vanish as 20 countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia withdrew recognition of this entity, he recalled.

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