While ten American senators wrote to the State Department regarding the Sahara conflict, the Director General of the Moroccan Penitentiary Administration, Mohamed Salah Tamek, supplied various facts in a response letter, particularly on the Gdim Izik captives.

Tamek reminded in a letter to the American Secretary of State in response to the departure of the American senators that the detainees of Gdim Izik are “prosecuted for having slain elements of the police force rather than for reasons relating to any nonviolent movement.”.

“Would the ten signatories have permitted dissidents who invaded and ransacked the Capitol and killed some police officers in order to be deemed peaceful protesters?” Tamek wonders in this letter, labeling the letter signed by ten American senators as “misplaced, false, and entirely biased.”

The Director General of the Penitentiary Administration has also replied to the Moroccan prison situation, providing details on “acceptable” incarceration circumstances. He also emphasized the advancements made in improving incarceration conditions and reinforcing respect for detainees’ rights.

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Paris – France is alongside Morocco, its “best ally” in Africa, to demand the free movement of traffic in El Guerguarat, declared Friday Christian Cambon, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces of the French Senate.

Tour d’horizon avec l’ambassadeur Benmoussa @AmbaMarocFrance. La France est aux côtés du #Maroc pour exiger la libre circulation du traffic à #Guerguerat (frontière Mauritanienne) et maintenir le cessez-le-feu avec le #Polisario. Le Maroc, meilleur allié de la France en Afrique. pic.twitter.com/gq2mXGOEMk

— Christian Cambon (@ChCambon) November 20, 2020

“France is alongside Morocco to demand the free movement of traffic in El Guerguarat (Mauritanian border) and maintain the ceasefire with the Polisario. Morocco, France’s best ally in Africa ”, wrote in a Tweet, Cambon, after a meeting with the Moroccan ambassador to France, Chakib Benmoussa.

Recently and while the tension was high in the buffer zone of El Guerguarat, blocked by Polisario militias, Mr. Cambon, also president of the France-Morocco interparliamentary friendship group of the Senate, reiterated, on behalf of the group, its call “for a peaceful and negotiated solution (of the Sahara issue) under the aegis of the United Nations Security Council, inspired by the proposal for broad autonomy advocated by the Kingdom of Morocco”.

“For 45 years, the Kingdom of Morocco has made gigantic efforts by investing in housing, health, education, economic activities and public facilities, as noted by the France-Morocco friendship group of the Senate. by going there (…) the civilian populations of this region need economic and social development in order to live in peace in this part of the world, ”he said.

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US senator Jim Inhofe, one of the very few conservative US figures to express reservations on Morocco’s Western Sahara claims, spoke yesterday, Tuesday, on the Senate floor about the Sahara issue.

The Republican senator who visited Tindouf camps about a year ago and expressed support in the presence of the former UN envoy, Christopher Ross, adopted a pro-Polisario approach, accusing the Kingdom of Morocco of threatening the Sahrawis.

Although the Polisario chose the policy of escalation at the Guerguerat border crossing, the American politician accused Morocco of choosing this timing “probably intentionally, to threaten to intervene to stop the Sahrawi protests” he said.

Despite the UN Secretary-General’s several demands to allow people and goods to pass through the crossing, Inhofe insisted that the border crossing violated the UN-sponsored ceasefire agreement. He claimed that Morocco had threatened to use arms and “crush these legitimate protests.” He also criticized the United Nations and said, “It has tolerated Morocco’s violations for years,” and called for “forcing Morocco to abide by the agreement concluded for nearly 30 years and to hold the referendum.”

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