ROME (ITALPRESS) – “The ball is now entirely in the European court. Europe must decide what it wants to do with the partnership with Morocco. We expect strong signals and concrete facts from the Commission and European countries on their determination to preserve this multidimensional partnership carefully built for more than sixty years. Morocco, which is seriously committed to this multidimensional partnership and which has consistently demonstrated its reliability over the years, will in no way tolerate its interests being jeopardized and it therefore falls to the European side to provide this partnership the necessary legal protection. Morocco cannot remain hostage to political tensions and wars of inter-European economic interests.” Youssef Balla, ambassador of Morocco to Italy, told Italpress.
“We need a calm and reliable partnership and we need to be reassured about the strategic choices that we have built together on the basis of mutual respect for the principles of international law, sovereignty, territorial integrity and mutual protection of interests. At a time when the Euro-Mediterranean region is weakened by challenges and risks of all kinds, Europe sends us, through this decision, a disconcerting signal that proves right those who predict its disengagement from this region in favor of external influences” added the Italian diplomat. “Morocco does not feel affected in any way by this ruling of the European Court, it is a European issue and between the Polisario, supported by Algeria and the EU,” Balla continued. “We observe, however, that this is a ruling based on purely political and in no way legal motivations and, furthermore, it exceeds the mandate of its jurisprudence strictly limited to the European scenario by allowing itself to express opinions that concern a non-European sovereign country. At the same time, it allows itself without embarrassment to usurp a role within international law reserved exclusively for the United Nations on the issue of the regional dispute over Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.” “We are faced with legal frivolity and in any case Morocco has clearly declared it. No contractual commitment will be undertaken without scrupulous respect for the sovereignty and integrity of the entire Moroccan territory” he concluded.(ITALPRESS).
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