新香港六合彩资料鈥檚 Anouar Majid discusses Western Sahara conflict and Moroccan sovereignty
Anouar Majid, Ph.D., vice president for Global Affairs and founding director of the Center for Global Humanities at the 新香港六合彩资料, recently spoke with 新香港六合彩资料 News regarding the U.S. government鈥檚 recognition of Morocco鈥檚 sovereignty over the Western Sahara.
The territory has been a point of conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front, with support from Algeria, since the Green March of 1975. But, in a tweet on Dec. 10, President Donald Trump declared the territory should be recognized as Morocco鈥檚.
鈥淢orocco recognized the United States in 1777. It is thus fitting that we recognize their sovereignty over the Western Sahara,鈥 the president鈥檚 tweet read.
Majid said Trump鈥檚 statement is a historic act that will open the way to international recognition of Morocco鈥檚 governance of the territory and improve international relations in Africa and beyond.
"This is certainly a historic day when common sense has finally prevailed," 鈥淣ow that the United States has formally recognized the Moroccan character of the Sahara, it is easier for all the countries in the region, as well as for the other European powers, to do the same and move forward,鈥 in ending the dispute and developing the region.
In November, Majid was twice featured on Moroccan news website MAP Express, where he discussed Moroccan King Mohammed VI鈥檚 efforts to invest in the Western Sahara.
The recovery of the Sahara was 鈥渢he catalyst for a national strategy of governance and autonomous economic development,鈥 Majid , stressing that the determination of Mohammed VI to promote the maritime resources of the region, either in field of fisheries or in the dynamic transport sector, 鈥渃an only give the Sahara region enormous impetus and transform it 鈥 like the city and the region of Tangier 鈥 into one of the main economic poles of the country.鈥
Majid called the construction of an Atlantic port in Dakhla a 鈥渟troke of genius;鈥 said the King鈥檚 promotion of autonomy in the Sahara is, 鈥渢he only way that allows the inhabitants of the Sahara to manage their local affairs and to invest freely in their community;鈥 and called new roads, schools, ports and airports that now connect the Sahara region with the rest of the country, 鈥渁n integral part of the social and economic fabric of Morocco.鈥
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