Paris – France reiterated, on Wednesday, its support for pursuing UN-sponsored informal talks on the Sahara, insisting that the status quo “is in nobody’s interest”.
“It is this process that, by pursuing dialogue between the parties, may contribute to making substantial progress on the political level,” a spokesman for the French Foreign Ministry said after the closing in Manhasset (New York) of the ninth session of negotiations.
The spokesman reiterated his country’s support for the action of the UN Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy, Christopher Ross, in order that the parties may reach “a realistic, just and lasting political solution” to the Sahara issue, pursuant to the UN Security Council resolution 1979 of April 27, 2011.
The French foreign minister Alain Juppé had reaffirmed, on Monday in New York, his countrys’ support for the Moroccan autonomy plan to settle the Sahara issue.
“We consider the Moroccan autonomy plan, now the only realistic proposal on the table, the serious and credible basis for a solution,” he had said.
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