Zakaria Abu Al-Dahab, a professor of international law at Mohammed V University in Rabat, said that Resolution 2797, which was recently adopted by the UN Security Council, “has significant political value, especially with regard to attracting foreign economic investments in the future, and establishing a clear basis for negotiation.”

This came during a national symposium entitled “50 Years of the Green March”, organized by the Authenticity and Modernity Party in Rabat, in the presence of its ministers and members of its collective leadership, along with experts and academics specializing in the Moroccan Sahara issue.

Abu al-Dahab stressed, in his intervention on the subject, that “the adoption by the UN Security Council of its latest resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, which calls for adopting the Moroccan autonomy initiative, was not arbitrary, but rather constitutes a more realistic third solution, after the failure of the solutions that were put forward previously to prove to be correct and valid.”

The spokesperson explained that “this development opens the door to a new path in the history of Morocco, which will not be without challenges of course, and will also support the trend towards a deeper strengthening of regionalization in the Kingdom, and the transition to a real Morocco of regions,” highlighting that “the aforementioned decision opens the door to other prospects for settlement.”

According to the international law expert, this decision constitutes “an explicit invitation to Algeria to engage in this process, or rather in the negotiations in which Morocco will be a party during the next phase,” indicating that “these developments also represent an explicit invitation to those detained east of the sand wall and those who have been misled to return to their homeland.”

Regarding the post-October 31st phase in the time of the first national cause, the same academic raised questions about the expected contribution of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs “CORCAS”, established in 2006, stating: “It is an actor that must be present in shaping the autonomy plan, and perhaps it will be required to submit proposals in this regard, especially since it is an advisory council concerned with the affairs of the Sahrawis.”

Abu al-Dahab also said that “the move towards implementing the autonomy plan in the southern provinces will be accompanied by questions regarding the structure of institutions and the distribution of powers among them, in addition to other questions about the representation of the ‘Sahrawi Parliament’ in the national parliament. The same applies to party work, given that the Kingdom’s constitution does not recognize regional parties,” explaining that “other questions of this kind will concern securing the buffer zone and demining, which will require building a horizontal vision for the process.”

The university professor noted in the end that “the joy of the Moroccans on the thirty-first of October demonstrates the vision of the King and the Moroccans’ adherence to their unity, despite the machinations of the schemers, following the path begun by the late Mohammed V.”