Moroccan Sahara: Panama supports the Initiative (…) – Gabonews

2024-01-30 19:03:31

Moroccan Sahara: Panama supports the Autonomy Initiative as a “sole basis” for a settlement of the regional dispute around the Sahara and undertakes to define its future action and position on this basis

January 30, 2024

Rabat, 01/30/2024-Panama affirmed its “support for the Autonomy Initiative” presented by Morocco in 2007, as “the sole basis for a just and lasting solution” to the regional dispute around the Moroccan Sahara, committing to “define its future action and take a position on the basis of this declaration”.

This national position of Panama was recorded in a Joint Declaration signed at the end of the bilateral meeting held, by videoconference, between the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans living abroad, Mr. Nasser Bourita , and her Panamanian counterpart, Ms. Janaina Tewaney Mencomo.

In the same Joint Declaration, Panama “considers that the United Nations remains the appropriate mechanism“to gather”all stakeholders” in the search for the political solution that the Security Council calls for.

He reiterated, in this context, the importance of advancing the political process at the international level, taking into account, in a manner “serious and respectful“, Security Council resolutions, in order to identify points of convergence.

Source CRM