BAKER'S PLAN AND WESTERN SAHARA

BAKER'S PLAN AND WESTERN SAHARA

Al Youm: In addition to having recommended the extension of the United Nations
mission in the Sahara, the latest report by Kofi Annan invited the parties to the conflict to a just solution accepted by everyone. Does this mean that James Baker plan and the referendum on self-determination are finally abandoned?

KOE: It's true, this is the first deduction Kofi Annane’s report, currently before the Security Council, waiting for a decision.
Koffi Annan reaffirms that James Baker plan is finally buried. It is a project that is not adapted to the situation concerning the case of the Sahara.
In the same way, the proposed referendum based on identification, which has occupied the United Nations for many years could not succeed because the United Nations has never conducted a referendum on the basis of identification Since its founding in 1948, not a single referendum.

That is why this referendum is unfeasible. The Saharan tribes identified by the United Nations do not live only in the Moroccan Sahara, but also in the neighbouring countries: Algeria, Mauritania and northern Mali.
So if we want to hold a free, fair, and democratic referendum, the referendum must include all Saharans across these different countries. And it is obviously not possible.

Hence the absolute impossibility of organizing a referendum based on identification. We can then bring, a political agreement that satisfies all parties.

The proposed autonomy is just to Saharans