At the end of the audience granted, on Thursday, by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Taïeb Fassi Fihri, in New York, the latter has underlined that “the Aminatou Haidar issue constitutes a new attempt of the Algerian government to derail the negotiation process about the Moroccan Sahara”. The head of the Moroccan diplomacy, accompanied during this audience by Mohamed Yassine Mansouri, the Director General of the General Department for Studies and Documentation (DGED), has then affirmed with conviction that “neither Algeria, nor the Polisario want to negotiate”. In order to better support his point, Taïeb Fassi Fihri considers that “the other parties try their best to fabricate problems in order to divert the attention of the international public opinion, instead of concentrating on the main issue and taking commitment to carry on negotiations”.  This declaration launched from the United Nations Palace sounds as an interpellation. It mainly reminds of Morocco’s determination not to cede to blackmail and to resist to disinformation campaigns in which the Algerian government and the Polisario are indulged.

Beyond the statement of the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, there is also another obvious interpretation: as long as Morocco is in line with the UN recommendations, mainly those of the Security Council, to undertake political negotiations with the Polisario, the latter and Algeria persist to hinder the settlement way. Taïeb Fassi Fihri has explained to the UN General Secretary the ins and outs of the anti-Moroccan denigration campaign in which Algeria and the Polisario are indulged. He has mainly deplored the serious emanating consequences: “the other parties, he has underlined, maintain the region within this current context with all the doors closed and without contacts between the governments while we face real challenges, not only in the Maghreb but also in Europe, conflicting hence with the region population’s interests”. He implicitly sheds light on the security dangers threatening the region due to Al-Qaïda movements’ activism or of its representatives.
He has forcefully denounced the deception which makes believe that Aminatou Haidar is “ a human rights militant”, while she is only an element acting under the strategic and security decisions of the other parties, while she was free to do whatever she likes during years as a Moroccan citizen, took advantage also of the rights conferred by her nationality and that for the first time, today, she has decided to say “I want to come back, I am not Moroccan”, which is in total contradiction with the laws in force”.
The Moroccan law is applied to everybody, nobody would be above it. Taïeb Fassi Fihri has plainly denounced the “security conspiracy” with which Morocco is confronted. “Morocco, he has insisted, has its laws, its rules, a Constitution and the Moroccan people are very proud of the achievements fulfilled in terms of human rights and liberties”.