The Supreme Council of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf renewed its position in support of the Moroccan Sahara, as the final statement of the Gulf Summit praised Security Council Resolution No. 2602 issued on October 29, 2021 related to the issue of the Moroccan Sahara.
The successive positions of the Gulf Cooperation Council on the Moroccanness of the Sahara confirm the strong ties that bind the Kingdom with the GCC states, as it has been expressing its involvement in supporting Rabat in the political process sponsored by the United Nations.
In this regard, the security expert, Muhammad Al-Tayyar, confirms that the position of the Gulf Cooperation Council “comes at a time when the tone of renewed hostility to the Algerian military regime has risen, which has taken a package of successive hostile decisions in its relationship with Morocco, which raises a number of questions on the occasion of the position of the cooperation countries Gulf.”
The same analyst, in a statement to Hespress electronic newspaper, stands at the position of the League of Arab States on the issue of the territorial integrity of Morocco, which is openly and insistently targeted by one of its members, stating that "the Sahara issue has been, over the past decades, one of the manifestations of the weakness of the Arab League."
Perhaps the most recent manifestation of this weakness, the same expert stresses, is “the determination of the Algerian military regime to exploit the Arab League summit to be organized in Algeria to pass its position against Moroccan territorial integrity.”
Ramtane Lamamra, Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, announced in a statement to the French-language newspaper L'Expression, that "the next Arab summit to be organized in Algeria will be an occasion to announce support for the Polisario."
This position, Al-Tayyar added, would “make the Arab League organization come closer than before to the stage of disintegration and disappearance, like many organizations that were unable to carry out the tasks they were committed to when they did.”
And the same analyst continues: "Therefore, at a time when the position of the Gulf Cooperation Countries on the first issue of the Moroccan people is emerging, the hesitant and divided positions of the Arab League on this issue are surfacing, and consequently questions about its feasibility, effectiveness and presence are emerging."