Germany backs Moroccan autonomy plan for Western Sahara
Rabat, Morocco (AFP):
Germany gave its backing on Thursday to a Moroccan autonomy plan for resolving the Western Sahara conflict, days after the North African country’s king urged allies to “clarify their positions.”
A joint statement issued at the end of a visit to Rabat by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that “Germany considers… the autonomy plan presented in 2007 as a serious and credible effort by Morocco and as a good basis for a solution agreed upon between both parties.”
Morocco has long insisted that it must retain sovereignty over Western Sahara, a parched but strategically important desert territory where the Polisario movement has mounted a decades-long struggle for independence, backed by Morocco’s main adversary Algeria.
The German move comes after Spain in March dropped its long-held policy of neutrality and backed Rabat’s 2007 plan for limited self-rule in the territory, ending a year-long diplomatic crisis sparked by Madrid hosting Polisario leader Brahim Ghali for Covid-19 treatment.
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