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Rabat – Both Gambia and Kuwait have renewed their commitment to support Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over Western Sahara.
On Tuesday, Kuwait’s Crown Prince and Vice Emir Sheikh Mishaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah reaffirmed his country’s support for Morocco’s territorial integrity during a meeting with the Gulf country’s Moroccan Ambassador Ali Benaissa.
During the meeting, Benaissa presented the Kuwaiti Crown Prince with his credentials accrediting him as the new Moroccan envoy to Kuwait.
The meeting served as an opportunity for both parties to reaffirm the importance of strengthening cooperation between the two countries.
In another diplomatic meeting, Gambia renewed its support for Morocco’s territorial integrity.
The Tuesday meeting in Rabat featured Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita and his Gambian counterpart, Mamadou Tangara.
Tangara’s visit is the first official trip of its kind to Morocco after his country’s legislative and presidential elections.
“The Gambia supports Morocco’s autonomy plan,” emphasizing the initiative’s viability to end the dispute over Western Sahara.
Tangara highlighted that the Gambia was the first African country to open a consulate general in Dakhla on January 8 in 2020.
The renewal of support for Morocco’s Autonomy Plan came just a week after dozens of countries echoed the same position during a security summit in Marrakech.
On the sidelines of the Global Coalition against ISIS’s ministerial meeting held on May 11, dozens of countries expressed their support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and the country’s autonomy initiative.
The support for Morocco’s position angered Algeria, which accused Rabat of “hijacking” the Marrakech event to garner more support.
The Algerian regime continues to broadcast messages that appear hypocritical when taking into account the country’s positions on its own internal issues with separatists.
Recent remarks from the Moroccan ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale exposed Algeria’s glaring contradiction that Algeria’s diplomacy aims to undermine Morocco’s territorial integrity.
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“You are asking for self-determination for the 20,000 people you are kidnapping in the Tindouf camps, but you are denying it to a people of 12 million inhabitants,” Hilale stated, in a reference to Algeria’s Kabyle people.
The remarks appear to have frustrated Algeria’s regime, which described Hilale’s statement as a “miserable” attack against Algerian unity.
Amar Belani, whom President Tebboune of Algeria appointed as “special envoy in charge of Western Sahara,” attempted to interfere in Morocco’s domestic affairs by accusing it of “repression” against activists amid Algeria’s ongoing systematic arrests of journalists and Hirak activists.
