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Rabat – Slovenia commended the Moroccan AutonomyPlan as “a good basis for reaching a final and consensualsolution” to the regional dispute over the MoroccanSahara.

Speaking at a joint press conference following bilateralmeeting with her moroccan counterpart Mr. Nasser Bourita, last Tuesday in Rabat, Slovenian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Tanja Fajon said « On compromise, and in this respect, Slovenia values the autonomy plan presented on 11 April 2007 by Morocco to the UN Secretary General as a good basis for a definitive solution agreed under the auspices of the UN Secretary General and hispersonal envoy ».

Slovenia reiterated its country’s constant support for the UN-led process and hailed Morocco’s serious and credible efforts to achieve a realistic, pragmatic, lasting, mutually acceptable and compromise-based political solution to the MoroccanSahara issue, noted a joint communiqué issued following hervisit in Morocco.

The two Ministers, added the same source, expressed theircommon position on the exclusive role of the United Nations in the political process, reaffirming their support for UN Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2703 of October 30, 2023.

They reiterated their respective countries’ support for the efforts of the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy to move the political process forward on the basis of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.

This constructive stance by Slovenia, the 16th EuropeanUnion country to support the Moroccan Autonomy Plan, ispart of an international dynamic that has seen over a hundredUN member countries lend their support to this initiative.

The Slovenian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreignand European Affairs is paying an official visit to Morocco, at the invitation of Mr. Bourita, to mark the 32nd anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Republic of Slovenia.

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