Contrary to what the European Parliament’s legal experts have found, the EU Ambassador to Morocco contends there is “no problem” with the legalities in the EU-Morocco agreement on fisheries in occupied Western Sahara.
Western Sahara, originally a Spanish colony, has been occupied by Morocco since 1975. The UN Security Council adopted a peace plan in 1991, but little has happened since, and few nations have recognised Morocco’s sovereignty claim as legitimate.
A controversial fisheries agreement between the European Union and Morocco went into effect in 2006. The agreement provides for the benefits to be transferred to the West Saharan people, 160,000 of which living in refugee camps since more than 30 years, but critics say there is no proof that such has been the case, and the European Parliament’s legal experts found last February that the agreement was contrary to international law.
