Ecuador backs Morocco's sovereignty over the Sahara and the 2007 autonomy plan
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Libération (Maroc) and TelQuel
Ecuador expressed support for Morocco's sovereignty over its entire territory, including the Sahara, and considers Morocco's 2007 autonomy initiative "the only serious, credible and realistic solution", according to a joint statement published on Monday in Rabat after talks between Nasser Bourita and his Ecuadorian counterpart Roberto Carlos Kury Pesantes. Quito plans a visit by its ambassador to the Sahara region and maintains its consular coverage nationwide.
Ecuador supports Morocco's sovereignty over its entire territory, including the Sahara region, and considers the autonomy initiative presented by Rabat in 2007 as "the only serious, credible and realistic solution for reaching a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political settlement", according to a joint statement published after talks on Monday in Rabat between Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and his Ecuadorian counterpart for Foreign Relations and Human Mobility, Roberto Carlos Kury Pesantes.
Quito considers that "genuine autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty constitutes the most feasible solution to settle this dispute" and decides to give concrete form to this support at the bilateral level, notably through a visit by its ambassador to Morocco to the Sahara region, acting at diplomatic, economic and consular levels, while maintaining its consular coverage nationwide, a position Morocco welcomes.
Ecuador will further promote economic and trade cooperation opportunities in the Sahara region, with the ambition of opening prospects towards the African continent in the fields of investment, trade and productive development.
