The Prime Minister of Morocco, Saadeddine El Othmani, defended over the weekend that Ceuta and Melilla "are Moroccans like the Sahara", after on December 10 the US President, Donald Trump, recognized the sovereignty of the kingdom over Western Sahara.

In an interview with an Egyptian channel, echoed by the Moroccan media, El Othmani has acknowledged that in relation to the two Spanish enclaves "the status quo has lasted five or six centuries."

In this sense, he has considered that "the day will come when we will reopen the matter of Ceuta and Melilla, Moroccan territories like the Sahara."

However, the Moroccan Prime Minister has managed to say that this is not the time to address this issue with the Spanish Government.

"First we must definitively fix the Sahara conflict, which is our absolute priority," he stressed, according to the newspaper 'L'Opinion'.

According to El Othmani, the current geopolitical situation is increasingly conducive to forging mutual trust with Spain, which, in his opinion, has palpably changed its position on the Sahara, aligning itself with the resolutions of the UN Security Council.

Following the announcement by the United States that it recognized Western Sahara as Moroccan, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, EU and Cooperation, Arancha González Laya, maintained that the solution to the problem of Western Sahara "does not depend on the will or unilateral action of a country, no matter how big this country is ", but rather" the center of gravity is in the UN. "

Likewise, the minister has referred to the resolutions of the Security Council to resolve the issue of the Sahara.

The UN considers the former Spanish colony a non-autonomous territory.

Since 1991, a military mission of the organization, MINURSO, has supervised the ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario.

The mission is renewed every year, and it has just been until October 31, 2021.

Spain and Morocco were going to hold a High Level Meeting (RAN) in mid-December that has been postponed to February 2021 in Rabat due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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