Hungary’s Ambassador to Rabat to visit Moroccan Sahara,another setback for Algerian regime

The Hungarian ambassador to Morocco will visit the Sahara following suit of the trips paid by diplomats of other major countries. This sends a strong message to the Algerian junta and its proxy,the polisario separatists.

The announcement of this visit was made by foreign minister Peter Szijjártó following talks held Wednesday in Budapest with Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita.

The consular services of the Hungarian Embassy in Morocco will also be provided to all Moroccan citizens throughout the Kingdom,said the minister in a diplomatic move showing the supportive stand of this central European country to Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty over its Saharan territory.

The autonomy plan presented by Morocco in 2007 “must be the basis for the solution” of the Sahara issue within the UN framework,he underlined,citing in this regard the positions reaffirmed by the United States and France. They both support Morocco’s “serious & realistic” autonomy plan under the Kingdom’s sovereignty as the ONLY basis for a just and lasting solution to the Sahara regional dispute.

Last November,French ambassador to Morocco Christophe Lecourtier paid an official visit to the Moroccan Saharan cities of Laâyoune and Dakhla. He is the first European ambassador to visit Moroccan Sahara and the second diplomat of a major global power recognizing Morocco’s sovereignty over its Sahara,after the visit paid by U.S. ambassador David Fisher to Dakhla in 2021.