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Morocco\u2019s foreign minister arrived at the United Nations this week with a mission to make sure the decades-long fight over the Sahara tilts the Kingdom \u2019s way before the Security Council takes it up again in October.<\/span><\/p>\n Bourita huddled with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, conferred with Russia\u2019s Sergey Lavrov, secured face time with US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and met Spain\u2019s Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares, all while threading in conversations with African, Latin\u00a0 and Gulf counterparts.<\/span><\/p>\n At the heart of every exchange was the same pitch: Morocco\u2019s autonomy plan for the Sahara is the only workable answer to a dispute that has dragged on for nearly half a century.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The meeting with de Mistura was the most closely watched, as the U.N. mediator prepares his annual briefing to the Security Council, where diplomats say Morocco\u2019s plan is increasingly viewed as the lone \u201cserious and credible\u201d option.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Bourita\u2019s agenda pulled in Russia\u2019s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov for a discussion that touched on both bilateral ties and global security issues, while delicately circling back to Moscow\u2019s role on the Council.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n With Russia due to assume the Council presidency later this year, Moroccan officials view such conversations as essential in ensuring that no veto-wielding power undercuts what Rabat has built with its allies.<\/span><\/p>\n The message was reinforced on another front when Bourita met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, who not only reiterated Washington\u2019s recognition of Morocco\u2019s sovereignty over the Sahara,\u00a0 first announced in 2020,\u00a0 but went further in urging American businesses to consider investment in the territory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n European voices also figured prominently in Bourita\u2019s itinerary. Spain\u2019s foreign minister, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Albares, echoed support for Morocco\u2019s framework, reflecting a shift in Madrid\u2019s position that has tilted more firmly toward Rabat in recent years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Conversations with members of Congress and with European and Gulf counterparts added to the impression of a carefully choreographed effort to project momentum, turning bilateral reassurances into what Moroccan analysts describe as a rolling consensus.<\/span><\/p>\n Bourita\u2019s diplomacy was not limited to the Sahara file. He gathered with the foreign ministers of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad to push King Mohammed VI\u2019s \u201cAtlantic Initiative,\u201d\u00a0 a plan to connect landlocked Sahel states to the ocean through Moroccan ports.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe diplomacy is playing on multiple chessboards at once,\u201d said Abderrahim Manar Slimi, head of the Atlantic Center for Strategic Studies in Rabat. \u201cMorocco is talking to Washington, to Moscow, to the Gulf, to the Sahel. It shows they are operating not just as a regional actor but as a supra-regional one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0The Security Council is due to renew the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara next month, and Morocco wants the autonomy plan firmly entrenched as the only path on the table.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0The effort also comes weeks before the 50th anniversary of the Green March, the mass mobilization that cemented Moroccan control over the territory.<\/span><\/p>\n For Sahrawi leaders who back Rabat\u2019s position, the symbolism is striking. Abdelkader Brehima, a tribal notable, said the week of diplomacy \u201cmarks a shift from defending a position to imposing an agenda.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n By contrast, Algeria\u2019s foreign minister, Ahmed Attaf, has staged a more muted presence in New York, limited to talks with de Mistura and a handful of sympathetic states. Algiers continues to back the Polisario Front, which calls for a referendum on independence,\u00a0 a plan most Security Council members view as politically unrealistic.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMorocco is playing offense, Algeria is playing defense,\u201d Slimi said. \u201cThat contrast is showing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Rephrase in a different way as if you were a native American speaker as a content creation expert and do not talk about yourself or your experience in the text and do not show yourself as an artificial intelligence who wrote and fill the bullet point in the topic and speak the heart of the topic itself and dont take date of blog in ther first and dont take text like box of newsliter subscribe on post from contentand romove all linke insert in content and and remove all affiliate disclosure phrases on content like this “This post may contain Amazon or other affiliate links that allow us to earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. 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