Morocco World News
Morocco World News
New York, September 28, 2012
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Burkina Fasso, Djibrill Ypènè Bassolé, on Friday expressed his support to the Autonomy Plan presented by Morocco to the Security Council in April 2007.
During his Address to the United Nations General Assembly, he called on the parties to find a long-lasting and agreed political solution to the issue of the Sahara and to build on the Morocco autonomy plan.
“Burkina Fasso believes that the Moroccan autonomy plan is an appropriate basis” for the settlement of this conflict, he said.
In April 2007, Morocco presented an Autonomy Plan that was described as “serious and credible” by the Security Council. The said plan proposes significant autonomy for the Sahara with a local government and a parliament, within the Moroccan sovereignty.
The Polisario Front, supported by Algeria, rejects the Moroccan plan and claims the people of the Sahara have a right to self-determination through a referendum.
Many analysts voice their concern that the current informal negotiations over the future of the Sahara are leading nowhere and that the Security Council ought to adopt a new approach in order to put an end to this long-lasting dispute.
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