Morocco needs to explain lawful retrieval of its southern provinces, former fm
Morocco-Algeria, Politics, 10/28/2003

Morcco's Former foreign minister, Mohammed Boucetta, called for using all means at the diplomatic, parliamentary, political and popular means to explain that the Moroccan southern provinces have been retrieved lawfully.

Boucetta, who was speaking Sunday on Morocco's TV Channel 2M, insisted on the necessity of a clear and accurate strategy in the issue, recalling that it is the Security Council itself that decided Morocco and Spain start negotiations, before the Green March was staged. Accordingly, he went on the two countries concluded the Madrid agreement that ended the Spanish occupation of southern Morocco.

Boucetta, chairman of the consultative commission in charge of reforming the family code, brushed aside claims that the Sahara issue is in a deadlock, arguing that the issue has undergone much harder times in the past.

The world's position vis-a-vis the Sahara issue was "worse during the cold war and the Algerian all-out campaign against Morocco and its right to retrieve the Sahara. Now, the situation has changed after many countries withdrew their recognition of the Sahara," he said, adding that Morocco will remain attached to its territorial integrity and its sovereignty over its southern provinces.

"Our Algerian brothers and those who have been misled must understand that Moroccans will not relinquish an inch of their retrieved territories, Boucetta insisted, reaffirming that the Moroccan people is unanimous on the issue, and that UN secretary General, Kofi Annan, and his personal Envoy, James Baker, can not impose any settlement to either party."

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