Algeria denounced the diversion by Morocco of the object of the International Conference for the fight against the terrorist group Daesh, which has just been held in Marrakech, to make it an event devoted to the question of Western Sahara.
“The International Conference for the fight against the terrorist group Daesh which has just been held in Marrakech has given rise to a din of statements orchestrated by the host country which has endeavored to make this gathering an event dedicated to Western Sahara”, denounced the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad in a statement released Thursday.
“This concomitant selling exercise into which some foreign participants were drawn clearly diverted the Conference from its advertised purpose and turned it into a pernicious attempt to give artificial relevance to a formula that died at its birth even in 2007,” says the Ministry.
“This Moroccan stubbornness in canvassing a political stillborn child on a large scale by using a diplomatic scam allegedly dedicated to the fight against terrorism surprised the good faith of certain participants and highlighted the contradictions of interests of other participants that the Moroccan side aspires to pool in its vain quest for a distortion of the question of Western Sahara which is and remains a question of decolonization fully engaging the United Nations”, affirms the ministry.
“The fact that Moroccan diplomacy is chasing the ghost of a false so-called autonomy solution and trying to pervert the global anti-terrorist fight by putting it at the service of narrow and selfish calculations does not in any way serve the legitimate objectives of the international community in the matter”, maintains the same source.
“Algeria, which has paid a heavy price because of terrorism and defeated it, condemns the amalgams that the Moroccan occupiers are trying to propagate. It invites the United Nations and the permanent member states of the Security Council to redouble their efforts to promote the effective decolonization of Western Sahara in transparency and in accordance with international law,” the ministry concludes in its statement.
Entv 13/05/2022
