The polisario separatists found an echo in the media and some Spanish associative and human rights circles, who have turned this issue into a pressure and blackmail card to be used in every debate,” said the Moroccan journalist, who was the guest, Monday, of the program “Mawdoo Alyoum” (Question of the Day) of Medi1 TV channel.
Tossa noted that Madrid’s new position will pave the way for the EU countries towards a common position recognizing the Moroccanness of the Sahara, stressing that the Sahara issue “has been settled at the U.S. level, within the Arab League, and it will soon be the case at the European level.”
Some European positions have always been “a little opaque as they avoided being at odds with the Spanish reservations. But now that Madrid has made it clear that there is no solution to this crisis except under Morocco’s sovereignty, this could give the green light to other European capitals to display a strong position that will also be a means of pressure on all regional stakeholders,” Tossa pointed out.
“At the African level, a group of countries is seeking to remove the puppet entity from the African Union,” he also noted, praising the work done by the Moroccan diplomacy, under the leadership of HM King Mohammed VI, which “has mobilized all means to convince these circles of the Moroccanness of the Sahara and of Morocco’s right to defend its territorial integrity.”
The expert then stressed the importance of Spain’s new position, given its status as a former colonial power which allows it to play an important role in this crisis at the regional level. “The Spanish recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara will significantly change the balance of power at the regional level and place the region in a new era, a new narrative that will put an end to this conflict in one way or another,” he said.
According to Tossa, political realism confirms that the balance of economic, political, and strategic interests is in favor of Morocco, given the “geopolitical pressures we are currently experiencing and given the isolation of the polisario separatists, whose numbers are dwindling by the day.
Spanish diplomacy has concluded that its interests require “the establishment of historical strategic relations with the Moroccan neighbor, which serves as Spain’s gateway to Africa, just as Spain is Morocco’s gateway to Europe,” he said.
Spain, the United States, and the European Union are now convinced that the separatist dream, “in which Algeria is the only one to believe in North Africa”, is an element of instability and war, Tossa said, stressing that pressure will increase on the Algerian regime to return to the negotiating table so as “to find a solution to this crisis, which has become a security nightmare in the region”.
Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse