The relationship with Morocco has been based on the erroneous idea of how the word “neighborhood” is interpreted. It is amazing that, when speaking of Morocco, no one considers even as a hypothesis that “neighborhood” can mean something different from “good neighborhood.”It does not seem necessary to make a list of border countries experiencing troubled relations. Descargar PDF

Five suicide bombings since April 11 are enough to conclude that terrorism is not residual in Algeria and its increasingly ferocious manifestation should call everyone’s attention in the Maghreb as well as in Europe – if it has not occurred yet.

The Moroccan project of 2007, from the International Law view point, although contains the clear acceptance of the self-determination principle, (what it supposes an "effort" from Morocco), contains incompatible clauses with this principle. Download PDF

Western Sahara is a unique situation that demands a prompt and just solution. The native Western Saharans’ right to self-determination is thus doubly important: for the sake of self-determination and for the sake of international order. Download PDF

In an attempt of evading the “Baker Plan” without contravening what has been established in the 1495 Resolution, Morocco presented in December 2003 a project for the creation of the “Autonomous Region of Sahara” ﴾hereafter referred to as ARS﴿. Download PDF

The outbreak of the Saharawi uprising or ‘Intifadha’ has just reached its first year. But any attempt to predict the outcome of the situation that convulse the Occupied Territories of Western Sahara since a year ago entails defining the exact nature of the uprising and its serious implications for the future of the conflict. Download PDF

After six years of negotiations, the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament voted, on Monday 15 of May, in favour of a largely criticised Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco. One week later, on Monday 22 May, the Agreement was endorsed by the Fisheries Ministers of the EU. Download PDF

Tired of Aceh, Afghanistan, Algeria, Chechnya and Kashmir as places to do a spot of jihad? Worried Iraq may be a shrinking market for terrorism, and Pakistan tougher than expected? Consider Thailand - where a little publicized war has raged between Muslim Malay insurgents and Bang-kok's army since 2002. Download PDF Descargar PDF

The Algerians say the Spanish government, in talking about a change in position regarding Western Sahara (a change, by the way, which pales to what Gonzalez did back in the 1980s with NATO), told them Spain, that is the Zapatero administration, could never ac-cept the right of self-determination. The Polisario Front won’t have its support to establish, once and for all, a United Saharawi Republic. Download PDF

Is Morocco the Western Sahara ‘administering power’ according to United Nations or is it instead an occupying power? The answer, far from being purely theoretical, has serious practical, political and economic consequences. The most im-mediate would affect nothing less than the possibility of brokering a fishing agreement on Sahrawi waters. The ratification of the fishing agreement signed on July 2005 by European Commission and Morocco is still on process and might result seriously affected by this answer. Download PDF

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