A statement released Friday evening by Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces announced that the Guerguerat border crossing between Morocco and Mauritania is completely secured via a security cordon, under the highest instructions of His Majesty the King, the Supreme Commander and Chief of the Royal Armed forces.

The statement assured that Morocco’s armed forces executed the security operation with respect to clear rules of intervention that require to avoid any contact with civilians according to the High Instructions of his Majesty the King Mohammed VI.

The same source added that during the operation, the armed militias of the Polisario opened fire on the Royal Armed forces, which retaliated, and forced the elements of these militias to escape without recording any casualties, confirming that this operation comes after the Polisario militias’ blockade of the Guergueret border crossing.

The communiqué highlighted that the militiamen of the Polisario separatists voluntarily set fire to the encampment they had erected then boarded pickups and trucks and fled east and south, “under the eyes of MINURSO observers”.

The statement concluded that “the Guerguerat crossing is now completely secure through a security cordon ensuring the flow of goods and people through the passage between the two border posts.

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The Assistant Commander of the Mauritanian Army, General Mukhtar Bella Shaaban, arrived Yesterday, Monday, to the northwestern city of Nouadhibou, where the Guerguerat border crossing is located.

The independent Mauritanian News Agency confirmed that the aim of the visit is to study possible measures to “secure” the borders closed by the fictitious Polisario Front gangs for a period of three weeks.

This step broke Mauritania’s long silence concerning Polisario separatists’ disruptive behaviors in the region. This blatant breach led to the closure of Guerguerat border crossing in a way that paralyzed the movement of commercial exchanges between Morocco and Mauritania, limiting the supply of the Mauritanian market with Moroccan agricultural products.

After a long silence over the provocations of the Polisario separatists, King Mohammed VI affirmed, in his forty-fifth Green March anniversary speech, the kingdom’s rejection of the unacceptable practices of trying to obstruct the normal traffic between Morocco and Mauritania, or to change the legal and historical situation east of the security wall, or any other exploitation. In addition, the king  asserted Morocco’s readiness “to confront with all force and firmness the violations that try to harm the safety and stability of the southern provinces.”

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