Former Peruvian Foreign Minister Pedro Castillo’s versatility on the Moroccan Sahara is highlighted

Miguel Rodriguez Mackay, a former foreign minister of Peru, emphasized President Pedro Castillo’s versatility in withdrawing Peru’s recognition of the pseudo-rasd, saying the Head of State had grasped that this so-called country had no legal standing in the world.

In an interview with the online daily Infobae that was broadcast on Monday, the former chief of diplomacy claimed, “Pete Castillo made the decision to withdraw the recognition of the rasd.”

Because of disagreements with the Head of State on, among other things, the direction that his country’s diplomacy should take on rasd, Miguel Rodriguez Mackay has ended the silence that he had maintained since he left his office.

In this interview, he describes for the first time the circumstances surrounding Peru’s decision to withdraw its recognition of the pseudo-rasd on August 18. Twenty days later, Peru changed its mind, creating a sorry spectacle of its once-respected diplomacy.
“Pedro Castillo chose that course of action. In charge of foreign policy is the President. The errors were revealed by the Chancellery. I informed the president and his team, who were present at the Government Palace, that the self-declared rasd is actually the result of a plan developed by the polisario with Algeria’s assistance, and that there are about 400,000 Saharawis worldwide, of whom 360,000 live in Moroccan Sahara and 40,000 in Tindouf, which is on Algerian soil. Mackay Rodriguez questioned, “So where is the Saharawi state? “, stating that “a key condition for a state to be created is that there must be a nation and a territory.”

According to Rodriguez Mackay, “I explained this to the Head of State, who understood it and actually told him “let’s move forward” to begin the process of withdrawing recognition” of the pseudo-rasd.

His justification for his claim was that he is “a researcher and an academic. I arrived to findings as a specialist in international law, which I informed the President of. Having a thorough understanding of what Moroccan Sahara implies under international law, it would be contradictory for me to take a position in opposition “to these beliefs.