Morocco's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced, on Friday, the launch of a military operation in the buffer zone of Guerguerat in Western Sahara to expel the Polisario militia.
The military operation aims to “put an end to the obstruction caused by these militias, and to re-establish freedom of civil and commercial movement.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that “Because of the dangerous and unacceptable provocations of the Polisario militia in the Guerguerat buffer zone in the Moroccan Sahara, Morocco decided to move, in full respect for the powers it vested in it.”
"After it committed itself to the greatest degree of restraint, Morocco had no other choice but to assume its responsibilities in order to put an end to the state of obstruction resulting from these moves, and to re-establish freedom of civil and commercial movement,” the statement read.
The Moroccan Foreign Ministry statement pointed out that the "Polisario" and its militias, which have infiltrated the region since October 21, 2020, "carried out gang acts there, obstructing the movement of people and goods on this road axis, as well as constantly restricting the work of the military observers of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, MNURSO.”
It is noteworthy that the Polisario Front had been demanding for years the establishment of an independent state in the Saguia el-Hamra region and the Valley of Gold rich in phosphates, overlooking the Atlantic coast stretching hundreds of kilometers rich in fish, while Morocco offered expanded autonomy over the population of the region, which has been fully under its control since 1979.
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