Morocco and France are arranging to organize a high-level meeting in the southern city of Morocco Dakhla in support of Morocco’s autonomy initiative for the Sahara region, an informed source told Assahifa Arabic.
According to the same source, the arrangements between Paris and Rabat for this high-level meeting have reached advanced stages, adding that the meeting would take place in June as an initial date.
The French side that will visit Morocco to take part in this meeting will be formed from high-level officials and representative of Macron’s government, said the informed source, adding that this coordination between Rabat and Paris comes to mobilize European support for the Moroccan initiative to grant autonomy to the Sahara region to end the Western Sahara dispute that has lasted for decades.
This French initiative comes after Marie-Christine Verdier-Jouclas, Frech MP and Vice President of the French-Moroccan Friendship Group and spokesperson for ‘La République En Marche’ Party team in the National Assembly, had previously announced the formation of a branch of the Party in Dakhla in the southern provinces of Morocco.
The last move from Macron’s Party in Dakhla has recently sparked controversy in Algeria, the main supporter of the Polisario Front, and caused a diplomatic crisis between Algeria and France and the cancellation of a French delegation's visit to Algeria.
According to observers, the French initiative to Support Morocco to end the Sahara problem could be translated that the French interests in Morocco seem stronger than in Algeria.
