Madrid – Spain wants a political, just and lasting solution to the Sahara issue that is accepted by the concerned parties, said on Friday in Madrid Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo.
At a joint press conference with his Moroccan peer Saad Dine El Otmani, on an official visit to Spain, Garcia Margallo said that his country’s position regarding the Sahara is “clear,” underlining that his government hopes to reach a solution that is accepted by the parties within the framework of the United Nations.
“The Spanish government is in no way concerned with the manner of exercising self-determination,” said Garcia Margallo, who argued that any solution (to the dispute) must be an agreement within the U.N. framework.
He recalled that he said, in a recent interview with Spanish newspaper “El Pais,” that “any solution agreed by the parties could rely on the support of Spain.”
Madrid “supports all efforts by the special envoy of the U.N. Secretary-General for the Sahara, Christopher Ross, to advance the negotiations between the parties” to the conflict, said the Spanish official.
