Rabat – The Committee for Foreign Policy, International Relations, and Parliamentary Diplomacy in the Andean Parliament has refuted hostile remarks made by the body’s President Gloria Florez against Morocco’s territorial integrity.
In January, Algeria invited the president of the Andes Parliament to address the 17th Conference of the Parliamentary Union of member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
During her speech, Florez made hostile remarks about Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over Western Sahara.
A week following the OIC event, the Committee for Foreign Policy at the Andean Parliament reaffirmed its ongoing position in favor of Morocco’s Autonomy Plan as a credible and serious basis to end the dispute.
The committee sent a communique to Morocco’s House of Councillors on Saturday, stressing the body’s “immutable position supporting the political sovereignty, national unity, and territorial integrity of the Kingdom, as well as the Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara.”
The House of Councillors added that the commission affirmed that it “considered civilized dialogue to be the best way to reach the consensus necessary for a climate of real and lasting peace.”
The Moroccan delegation which attended the OIC meeting, condemned the continued maneuvers to challenge Morocco’s territorial integrity, stressing that Algeria’s invitation of Florez
“contradicts the regulations and spirit of the organization.”
The delegation argued that Florez “does not have the legitimacy, in any case, to address issues that are outside the competence of the organization or to raise controversial issues that could comprise the spirit of consensus that characterizes our common Islamic action.”
The delegation also urged the OIC general secretariat to withdraw the speech by the Andes Parliament’s president from the OIC parliamentary union’s reports, calling on the OIC to “ensure that such an incident does not happen.”
