Mohammed VI Orders Armed Forces To Move To El Karkrat

Morocco newspaper El Massa said that units of the Royal Special Forces were sent to the nearby border crossing of Al Karkrat, claiming its response to the movement of the Saharawi military forces in the region.

Same newspaper added, on Tuesday, that the Moroccan Armed Forces received joint exercises with US special forces in California to implement the very sensitive tasks, like the intervention in cases of major crises, securing strategic locations and to address the terrorist operations and attempts, all with regard to the organized and intercontinental crime, like the illegal marine activities, smuggling, maritime piracy and terrorism.

According to the same news, these forces will be placed on standby backup units for dealing with emergencies and the most prominent tasks that will be assigned to them, like fortifying airports, dams and major strategic production facilities and state institutions, which are usually the major target of terrorist and criminal plots.

For its part, the Polisario Front announced that the Sahraoui armed troops will remain stationed in Al Karkrat area, and the Saharaoui coordinator with MINURSO, M’Hamed Khadad, told AFP news agency: “We will stay on our site as long as Morocco continues its clear violations of the ceasefire in the buffer zone, which was a source of tension in Al Krakrat”.

Sahraoui Cabinet expressed on Friday its rejection the Moroccan regime’ fallacy and misleading of the international public opinion and his appearance as a collaborator once its troops dropped a few meters from the humiliating and shameful trenches and wall”.

It met at the Beir Lahlou liberated region where it confirmed that it can not hide that the power of a military occupation of the pierced and still penetrate the frequent ceasefire agreement and refuses to comply with international legitimacy through the expulsion of the civil and political component of MINURSO and do not allow a full return to its members in addition to disable peace settlement of the conflict, and continuing human rights violations, and the expulsion of international observers and the plundering of natural resources “.

“What is needed today is a solution in justice and fairness for the victim, and not keeping pace with the occupier, which will only lead to more tension in the region, and the continued suffering of the Saharaoui people, which insists to continue the struggle in every legitimate way in order to get the right to freedom and independence”.

Furthermore, the preparatory meeting of the session 147th session of the Foreign Ministers Council of the Arab League noticed an altercation, according to the report of the Moroccan news website Hesepress, between the Permanent Moroccan ambassador to the Arab League, Ahmed Tazi, and the Session’s Chair the Algerian, Nadir Arbaoui, as a result of his refusal to include an article that welcomes the return of Morocco to the African Union.

Same website quoted its sources, as saying that the quarrel took place against the backdrop of the Algerian delegate’s refusal to include an article that welcomes the return of Morocco to the African Union within the draft resolution that will be submitted by the permanent delegates to the meeting of Foreign Ministers that was held in Cairo, then the Moroccan delegate asked the head of the meeting to include a resolution for welcoming the return of Morocco to the African Union within the draft resolution that will be submitted tomorrow, but he refused to do so”, and Echorouk could not obtain a comment by the Ambassador, Nadir Arbaoui on such information.