The unusual hand message laid to Algeria in which she invited to negotiate a “without winners or defeated” solution for the conflict of the Western Sahara, has been received with silence in Algiers. The appeasement of the Monarch of Morocco has coincided with the tour of the Massad Boulos Maghreb, Consuegro and advisor to President Donald Trump, who had visited Algiers the previous week in a diplomatic mission aimed at “promoting trade” as a way of stability in the region. And also with the announcement that the United States Government prepares to authorize large investments of its companies in the Sahara under Moroccan control, a dispute territory considered by the United Nations as non -autonomous (pending decolonization) for half a century. Boulos returned to Washington without stopping at Rabat, as planned.
Faced with the official mutism on the proposals presented on the tour of the Trump counselor, the US International Development Financing Corporation is preparing to give the green light to the investments of US companies in the Western Sahara, according to the portal . This American public agency provides for investments of up to 5,000 million dollars [unos 4.315 millones de euros]largely in projects with Moroccan partners, in the renewable, mineral (rare earth), aquaculture and tourism sectors after having carried out exploratory missions at the end of last year.
Before economic operations are authorized in a territory where armed clashes are recorded since 2020, when the Polisario Front broke the US National Security Agency has carried out an analysis of the war situation on the ground.
North American companies are not limited by the decisions of the EU justice, which last October annulled, at the request of the Polisario, the fishing and commercial agreements of the community club with Morocco. He then established that trade with Western Sahara products meant to recognize the sovereignty of Rabat about a territory that the international community does not recognize as part of Morocco. In addition, he stressed that for those agreements the consent of the Saharawi people had not been obtained, “violating the principle of self -determination” recognized by the UN.
Last year, the Spanish group Senator announced the opening of a hotel in Dajla, in the but the decision about its business presence in the territory remains frozen. Also in 2024, the French Development Agency reported an investment plan of 150 million euros in infrastructure such as an electricity line between Casablanca and Dajla. Gulf countries also raise investments in Sahara. According to the Arab digital Aqaq, The energy of the United Arab Emirates Taqa, already present in Morocco and that has negotiated its part of the group of companies that study to invest up to 10,000 million dollars in the Western Sahara in solar and wind centrals to export green energy to Europe.
It is not the first time that, which gives the Polyrio front and thousands of refugees in Tinduf (Southwest Algerian) in a regional contentious about to meet half a century. But the offer is now produced from a solid international position in which Rabat has the support of his autonomy plan of three of the five members of the UN Security Council – United States, France and the United Kingdom – and Spain, ancient colonial power. “Before the spectrum of a military escalation (…), a more serene regional climate could have important economic and strategic repercussions for both countries,” says the analyst Abdelá Turabi in the weekly As is.
As the television channel to the Arabiya Entrepreneur of Lebanese origin had anticipated as a mediator of the White House before Arab and African countries, “the US wishes the best neighborhood relations between Algeria and Morocco.” The return of the White House counselor to Washington without completing his regional tour in Rabat, confirmed on Friday, has occurred without official explanations about cancellation.
Despite the special relationship with Morocco, the USA maintains close ties with Algeria, whose president, Abdelmayid Tebún, received Boulos on July 27. He proposed to explore “the immense opportunities that opens commercial cooperation in the energy sector,” according to the Algerian press.
It was reported on Saturday of the content of the congratulation message sent by Trump to Mohamed VI on the occasion of the throne party, held four days before. “The US recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco about Western Sahara and supports its autonomy proposal as the only basis for a fair and lasting solution of the difference,” he expressly reiterated in his letter to the sovereign of the Alauí dynasty. In December 2020, in the final stretch of his first mandate, the Republican leader recognized the authority of Morocco about the Spanish ex -olonia, but during the presidency of the Democrat Joe Biden there were no steps provided in the agreement between Rabat and Washington, such as the opening of an American consulate in Dajla.
Bouls clarified in his statements to Al Arabiya that the recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara “leaves the door open to dialogue to achieve a solution accepted by both parties.” The US counselor aspires to reach “a quick exit” to the conflict during Trump’s current presidency. The Contentious of the Western Sahara poises diplomatic relations in the Maghreb since 1975, when Spain abandoned what was its number 53 after the massive mobilization of tens of thousands of Moroccan civilians promoted by Hasan II, father of the current monarch, in full agony of the dictator Francisco Franco in Spain.
“A consensual solution”
“I have watched our brothers in Algeria’s hand, expressing the disposition of Morocco to undertake a frank and responsible, fraternal and sincere dialogue, on the various pending issues between the two countries,” he emphasized in his speech on Tuesday night. At the same time, he claimed the validity of the Union of the Arab Maghreb, an embryonic forum pursued by the Economic Regional Association since 1989 paralyzed because of the Sahara conflict. For the first time, in addition to the usual messages of good neighborhood, the monarch also called to “find a consensual solution, in which there are no victors or defeated, preserving the dignity of all parties.”
Despite the official silence and suspicion shown by the media published in Algeria, the edited in France, recognizes that the last Mohamed VI message “differs from the precedents”, although it does not define “the contours of the consensual solution.”
The gap between the two countries on the Western Sahara has not stopped widening. While Algiegel considers that it is a matter of decolonization that must be resolved within the framework of the United Nations through direct negotiations of Morocco and the Polisario Front, defender of independence after a referendum of self -determination, Rabat appeals to a dialogue with Algeria, not counting on the Polisar Jerifian
