Zambia has renewed its support for Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its southern provinces in the Moroccan Sahara.
Zambian Minister of Justice Mulambo Haimbe conveyed his country’s position, on 24 May as he visited Rabat, where he held discussions with senior officials – including Morocco’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita.
In a joint statement at the end of the meeting, Haimbe said his country fully supports the Moroccan Autonomy Plan as the only credible, serious, and realistic solution to the Moroccan Sahara.
The Zambian official also renewed his country’s support for the UN-led political process, which he described as the most viable and realistic framework to achieve a "feasible, practical, and sustainable solution to the decades-old territorial conflict".
Bourita welcomed Zambia’s renewed support for Moroccan territorial integrity and commended the depth of the evolving ties between Morocco and Zambia.
In recent years, several African countries have recently renewed support for Morocco’s territorial integrity.
Earlier this month, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Cote d’Ivoire also reaffirmed their endorsement of the Moroccan Autonomy Plan during the C24 regional seminar in Venezuela.
During the meeting, Senegal’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Diamane Diome, said his country “would like to take the opportunity of this seminar to reiterate its constant support for the Moroccan autonomy initiative, which it deems serious, credible, by international law, the United Nations Charter, and relevant Security Council and General Assembly resolutions.”
Likewise, Sierra Leone’s deputy permanent representative to the UN, Amara Sowa, said his country supports the initiative and hailed the ongoing socio-economic and infrastructural developments in Morocco’s southern provinces.
Meanwhile, the Minister Counselor at Cote d’Ivoire’s Permanent Mission to the UN made similar sentiments, noting that his country “would like to reaffirm its full support for the broad autonomy initiative for the Sahara proposed by Morocco, supported by more than 107 UN member states.”
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