The rapprochement between Rabat and Montevideo is taking shape. The Uruguayan government is in the process of withdrawing its recognition of the so-called sadr.
"The government freezes the link with the so-called "sahrawi republic" and takes measures to deepen relations with Morocco", headlines this Wednesday, December 14 the Uruguayan daily El Observador. Indeed, according to the same source, “the government is determined to deepen diplomatic and commercial relations with Morocco, for which it necessarily demands the cancellation or suspension of relations with the "sadr”.
The media particularly recalls the official visit of Uruguayan senators to Rabat earlier this month, on the sidelines of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic Forum and the Gulf of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean. Jorge Osvaldo Gandini Astesiano, Vice-President of the Senate, who had made the trip, hailed in this sense “the very promising results for Uruguay”, at the end of the “political, economic and commercial” dialogue held in Rabat.
“The talks focused on the level of bilateral relations between the two countries, the role of parliamentary diplomacy in clarifying visions and positions and the opening of a new page between Morocco and Uruguay on the basis of the respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of States,” said a statement from the House of Representatives.
As a reminder, Uruguay recognized the polisario front in 2007, under the presidency of Tabaré Vazquez (Socialist Party), who died on December 6, 2020, following lung cancer.
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