{"id":44558,"date":"2025-04-04T14:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=44558"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T14:31:12","slug":"france-reaffirms-support-for-moroccos-sovereignty-over-its-sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/france-reaffirms-support-for-moroccos-sovereignty-over-its-sahara\/","title":{"rendered":"France Reaffirms Support for Morocco\u2019s Sovereignty Over Its Sahara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44560\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Morocco-Sahara-France.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Morocco-Sahara-France.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Morocco-Sahara-France-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Morocco-Sahara-France-100x70.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paris &#8211; French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot reiterated France&#8217;s position, expressed at the highest levels of government, supporting Morocco&#8217;s sovereignty over its Sahara.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just a few months ago, we made clear our position: the present and future of Western Sahara fall within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty, as a direct consequence of the Moroccan autonomy plan&#8221;, Barrot stated during a hearing before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are no other realistic or credible solutions today,&#8221; he stressed, emphasizing that this is part of &#8220;a lasting and mutually acceptable political solution within the framework of the United Nations, and we support UN efforts towards this dialogue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this context, Barrot underlined that he will have the opportunity &#8220;to discuss this in a few days with my Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, in Paris.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CuQ6rJAZmP\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/morocco-albania-reaffirm-commitment-to-further-strengthen-excellent-bilateral-relations\/\">Morocco, Albania Reaffirm Commitment to Further Strengthen Excellent Bilateral Relations<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Morocco, Albania Reaffirm Commitment to Further Strengthen Excellent Bilateral Relations&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/morocco-albania-reaffirm-commitment-to-further-strengthen-excellent-bilateral-relations\/embed\/#?secret=dcxmwtyxWZ#?secret=CuQ6rJAZmP\" data-secret=\"CuQ6rJAZmP\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron had previously expressed this stance in a message to His Majesty King Mohammed VI in July 2024, affirming that \u201cFrance considers that the present and future of Western Sahara lie within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macron had reaffirmed \u201cthe unwavering position of France on this issue of national security for the Kingdom\u201d and asserted that his country \u201cintends to act in alignment with this position both nationally and internationally\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Macron also reaffirmed this position during a historic address before the Moroccan Parliament on October 29, as part of his state visit to the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I reaffirm it here before you. For France, the present and future of this territory lie within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty. Autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty is the framework within which this question must be resolved,&#8221; the French Head of State underlined.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"98YIxOUllf\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-march-2025\/\">Pakistan in the World \u2013 March 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Pakistan in the World \u2013 March 2025&#8221; &#8212; Pakistan In the World\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/pakistan-in-the-world-march-2025\/embed\/#?secret=nfqgx0G85E#?secret=98YIxOUllf\" data-secret=\"98YIxOUllf\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Paris &#8211; French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot reiterated France&#8217;s position, expressed at the highest levels of government, supporting Morocco&#8217;s sovereignty over its Sahara. &#8220;Just a few months ago, we made clear our position: the present and future of Western Sahara fall within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty, as a direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6964,135,612,862,5641,5923],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44561,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44558\/revisions\/44561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}