No luck in Maghreb grindock for peace

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Press
Algeria thwarts Moroccan plan to settle Sahara issue

MAP 3/30/2006 | 4:16 pm


Algeria, "new gas and oil Eldorado," relies on "the rivalries between the superpowers, which fight over its favours" to thwart the Moroccan plan to settle the Sahara issue, wrote Thursday the French daily Libération.



Algeria, "new gas and oil Eldorado," relies on "the rivalries between the superpowers, which fight over its favours" to thwart the Moroccan plan to settle the Sahara issue, wrote Thursday the French daily Libération.

In an article entitled "the Sahara: Mohammed VI proposes autonomy," the paper notes that "the virulence of Algerian press " against the visit King Mohammed VI paid to the southern provinces suggests "Algeria's categorical refusal" of the settlement plan proposed by the sovereign regarding autonomy within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty.

During this six-day tour, King Mohammed VI reaffirmed that the Sahara would remain Moroccan and that Morocco "will give up no grain of its sand". The Sovereign re-launched the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), the paper recalls.

This body "was completely renewed" and is now composed of 141 members, including tribes' chiefs and representatives of youth movements and civil society -notably women, it says. It notes that the Sovereign invited them to transform this council into “an institution of development and mobilisation of the citizens and a proposal force.”

The daily also records the Sovereign's inauguration of several development projects in the southern provinces –estimated at USD 776Mn-, pointing out that the Moroccan plan benefits from the support of Sahrawis and political parties.

[Amazigh Man]

yeah

it's in the benefit of the ruling generals in Algeria to maintain unrest in North Africa... so they stay say to the algerian people: Morocco is a threat to Algeria .. we nedd to buy Russian weapons...

Boutefliqa is not ruling the army is.