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09-04-2006, 15:21
The secretary general of the Algerian Labour Party (Parti des Travailleurs), Louisa Hanoune, voiced Saturday her opposition to the independence of the Sahara, which, she said, is part of a foreign strategy that aims at endangering states and their territorial integrity, reported MAP news agency.


Invited to a live TV programme in the Algerian public television on Saturday, Hanoune, also a deputy of the National Popular Assembly, gave Morocco as an example of a state that is targeted by this strategy.

“The labour party opposes the division of any Maghreban country,” she stressed, adding that there is no interest in dividing Morocco or any other country.

The secretary general of the labour party, which has just convened its extraordinary congress, recognised that the Sahara issue is a complex problem, but categorically rejected the creation of any micro-state in the south of Morocco.

She refused a Sahrawi state, calling for complementarity between the Maghreban states.

The Algeria-backed Polisario claims the separation of the Moroccan Southern Provinces, known as the Sahara, from the rest of the Kingdom after they were regained by the motherland from Spain under the Madrid Accords, signed between Rabat, Madrid and Nouakchott.

Morocco has recently proposed an autonomy plan to the Sahara, under the Moroccan sovereignty. It intends to present the autonomy project to the UN next April, so as to find a solution to the Sahara conflict.