Doha – Mexico city saw the start of a new platform on Thursday that campaigned for the territorial integrity of Morocco in Latin America.
The Mexican observatory for Moroccan Sahara combines prominent academic, political and intellectual personality Autonomy plan As a solution for the regional dispute.
Maria Reyna Carretero, President of the Observatory and Professor of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, emphasized that the start in the middle of the growing international support of the Morocco position on the Sahara edition.
The platform aims to provide the Mexican public precise information about the autonomy plan, which Morocco is a solution to the dispute.
Carretero spoke to an audience to which the ambassador of Morocco in Mexico, Abdelfattah, and presented the initiative as an essential step to determine the already strong and developing diplomatic relationships between Morocco and Mexico.
“The observatory will serve as a hub to promote bilateral relationships and reflect the strong commitment to dialogue and understanding between our two countries, which share numerous historical and civilizational similarities,” she said.
The Observatory member Andrés Ordóñez also underlined the importance of the initiative for strengthening Morocco-Mexico relationships and promoting a better understanding of the Sahara problem.
He found that the international support for the Morocco autonomy plan is due to the legitimacy of the position of the North African country and the practicality of the plan in ensuring local government under Moroccan sovereignty.
The observatory organizes dialogue forums and debates that show development efforts in the southern provinces of Morocco and research opportunities for economic opportunities Cooperation Between Africa and Latin America.
During the start, a committed website was presented in which information about the autonomy plan and the development opportunities of Morocco contained in the Sahara region.
Robert Ly Djerou, ambassador to the Ivory Coast in Mexico and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps in Mexico City, repeated the support of his country for the territorial integrity of Morocco.
He believed that the solution to the Sahara dispute is only conceivable within the framework of the autonomy plan, which he described as the sole credible and realistic solution for the guarantee of regional stability and development.
An opaque legacy
The relationship between Mexico and Morocco to the Sahara question has developed considerably since diplomatic relationships were established Between the two countries in 1962.
In 1979 the then Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda Y álvarez de la Rosa recognized the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arabian Democratic Republic (SADR), a position that influenced bilateral relationships.
This attitude was particularly visible in 2018 when the Secretary General of Polisario Front Brahim Ghali visited the Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s inauguration, while no Moroccan officials were present at the event.
In recent years, however, signs of changing dynamics have been shown. The Mexico Morocco friendship group was founded in September 2020 and includes personalities from the political, academic, cultural, social and economic sectors of the federal states.
The group has repeatedly expressed support for the autonomy initiative Morocco, including the support of Morocco to restore civilian and commercial traffic in El Guergarat.
The friendship group in March 2022 output A significant letter to the foreign ministers of both countries that occupy a determined position in the regional situation. “We repeat our support for the Moroccan proposal for autonomy and condemn the separatist plans that try to impair the Sahara and Sahel region’s security and stability,” says the letter.
The coordinator of the group and Mexican MP Miguel Vargas Mendosa said that the letter “the solidarity of the Mexicans with the Moroccan cause”, and asked the Mexican authorities to reject separatist attempts in the Sahara.
In the same year Mexican experts added Their voices for the growing support for the undeniable law Morocco. During an online conference that was organized by autonomy for the Sahara Coalition (Ausaco) in Mexico city, international development expert Pedro Diaz de la Vega Morocko’s efforts in the region praised.
“It is the immeasurable efforts of Morocco that made it possible to build the Moroccan Sahara into a region of stability, prosperity and a future for the development of the entire African continent,” he said.
In the meantime, the lecturer of international law, Juan de Dios Gutierrez Baylon, insisted that “autonomy is the only solution to ensure the right to self -determination of the Sahara population”.
The bilateral relationships between the two countries are subject to 17 agreements that cover various areas of cooperation, including education, culture, health of animal, water resources, intellectual property and modernization of the public sector.
During the trade relationships between 2010 and 2020, an average of $ 338.85 million per average was $ 338.85 million, with the overall trading in 2020 reaching 353.76 million dollars.
The introduction of the Mexican observatory materializes in the middle of a paradigmatical shift in the geopolitical orientations of the Latin American change in relation Reinforcement Under Trump’s second administration.
This new calibration of diplomatic attitudes is crystallized in Panamas November 2024 suspension Connections with the self-proclaimed SADR-a particularly consistent development in view of the historical role of Panama as the first Latin American nation to recognize the separatist entity in 1980.
Ecuadors October 2024 retreat The SADR recognition further illustrates this diplomatic realignment, which indicates a systematic erosion of the traditional areas of influence of the separatist movement in a region that is once involved in its identification strategy.
