“This is a positive development in the highly anticipated position of France which was not sufficiently strong and coherent compared to that of Morocco,” said the president of the Institute Foresight and Security in Europe (IPSE). ), in a statement to MAP.
“By going further than what it was in 2007, we must welcome the fact that the French position sides with the hundreds of other countries which have recognized the Moroccan nature of the Sahara,” affirmed the French expert who teaches geopolitics at the Catholic University of Lille.
French President Emmanuel Macron presented “this new doctrine” of France’s foreign policy concerning the Moroccan Sahara “with the solemnity” of a message addressed to HM King Mohammed VI, recalls Mr. Dupuy.
And to add that the French position will encourage other European countries to join the broad momentum of international support for Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara.
In a message addressed to His Majesty King Mohammed VI, it will be recalled, the French President, Mr. Emmanuel Macron officially announced to the Sovereign that he “considers that the present and future of Western Sahara are part of the framework of Moroccan sovereignty”.
In the same message, the French head of state assures His Majesty the King of “the intangibility of the French position on this issue of national security for the Kingdom” and that his country “intends to act consistently with this position as nationally and internationally.