Fiskeavtalet ger europeiska fiskare rätt att fiska utanför Marockos kust, inklusive den del som tillhör Västsahara, ett område som Marocko ockuperar sedan 1975. För att avtalet ska vara i enlighet med folkrätten ska folket i Västsahara kunna dra nytta av de avtal som rör områdets naturresurser. Det anser Sverige inte att EU-kommissionen, som har föreslagit en ettårig förlängning av avtalet, har kunnat visa.
Men för att Sverige ska kunna stoppa avtalet krävs att det bildas en blockerande minoritet på minst fyra länder i EU:s ministerråd nu på måndag. I dagsläget ser det inte ut att finnas en sådan. Danmark kommer dock att gå på Sveriges linje.
– EU-kommissionen måste visa att avtalet leder till något positivt för västsaharierna och ministerrådet måste få tid att göra en utvärdering av avtalet innan vi kan säga ja till en ettårig förlängning, säger Jakob Alvi, presstalesperson på Danmarks EU-representation i Bryssel.
Men en helskandinavisk insats för ett nej tycks det inte kunna bli. Den finländska regeringen lutar åt att antingen lägga ner sina röster eller säga ja, enligt en källa som har insyn i den finska regeringens position.
– Egentligen har vi inga förhoppningar alls om att stoppa det här avtalet, säger Anna-Karin Nyman.
I ett ovanligt partiöverskridande initiativ krävde i dag 15 av Sveriges 18 EU-parlamentariker i en artikel på DN Debatt att Sverige röstar nej till att EU förlänger fiskeavtalet med Marocko på grund av landets ockupation av Västsahara. Tre EU-parlamentariker – Anna-Maria Corazza Bildt (M), Alf Svensson (KD) och Christian Engström (PP) valde att inte skriva under uppropet, som även organisationen Emmaus står bakom.
Anna-Maria Corazza Bildt säger till Europaportalen att hon av princip inte kommenterar vad Sverige ska göra i utrikesfrågor.
– Det är ganska uppenbart varför jag inte gör det.
Flera av dina partikamrater i EU-parlamentet har skrivit under.
– Ja, men det finns en skillnad mellan dem och mig.
Vilken då?
– Det är ganska uppenbart för alla, jag behöver inte säga mer än så, säger Anna Maria Corazza Bildt.
Christian Engström från Piratpartiet låter hälsa att partiet inte har någon officiell åsikt i frågan eftersom det inte rör partiets kärnfrågor. Om frågan skulle komma upp i parlamentet röstar Engström enligt den Gröna gruppens linje.
Alf Svensson säger att artikeln inte nådde honom innan det var försent.
– Jag fick inte se den slutgiltiga artikeln i tid så jag hann inte skriva under, säger Alf Svensson.
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Man måste förstå att EU:s ruttna fiskeavtal med Marocko beror på EU:s fiskepolitik, där "solidariskt" regionalstöd har använts för att sponsra utbyggnaden av spanska och portugisiska dammsugartrålare.
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The Western Sahara is doesn’t an independent state. The Western Sahara is a southern territory in Morocco. The Western Sahara was recovered by steps in the Madrid’s Agreement between Morocco and Spain.
The "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic" exists only in the Internet. It is not recognized by many countries and many countries have withdrawn their recognition of the Republic. The Sahrawi tribes spread across four countries, namely Morocco, Mauritania, Algeria and Mali.
The referendum is neither technically nor politically applicable.
The majority of the Sahrawi people lives in the south of Morocco and is within within at a Royal institution institution CORCAS represented. The Polisario Front is not the sole representative of the Sahrawi people. Many Sahrawi are willing to return to Morocco from the camps of Tindouf, are still preventing to doing it. The Polisario Front lacks the freedom of movement of the population in the camps of Tindouf and makes it muzzle.
Morocco doesn’t violate the human rights in Western Sahara and doesn’t suppress the Sahrawi voices, the taking party for the self-determination. Contrary, Morocco has introduced deep reforms in this area and has taken huge steps to ensure that human rights should to be respect. Morocco doesn’t prohibit the freedom of the expression in Western Sahara. In contrast, many Saharawi, to the separatist relieved haves Moroccan passports and are traveling freely to express them. There aren’t Sahrawi Political prisoners. All ware released thanks the royal amnesty. There are Sahrawis who they are living in Morocco and they are returned voluntarily to Morocco. This Sahrawis are unionist. It's Polisario, that doesn’t respect human rights. It’s is keeping people in the camps of Tindouf, forbids them to move freely, controlled the refugee camps and suppresses the humanitarian assistance, that expense to the refugees in the camps, and which Polisario enables them to enrich themselves. Polisario doesn’t allow a count of the population of the camps and is carried out. Polisario is practicing dark-skinned in the camps to the Sahrawi people.
The Moroccan government is willing to do everything possible to ensure that the conflict over Western Sahara to end but in the context of autonomy and respect its territorial integrity. It urges that the humanitarian help actually reaches the beneficiaries.
Morocco is doing everything necessary to enable the refugees to return to the camps of Tindouf finally in the mother country. Morocco has spent large investments in the Western Sahara and Morocco does not plundering the resources of Western Sahara. Morocco, contrary, have presented an ambitious project of autonomy, that provides a far-reaching autonomy for the southern provinces, which was welcomed by the international community and was qualified as a serious and credible effort on the part of the Security Council, an autonomy plan, which guarantees that the Sahrawis manage their political, economic, social and cultural affairs.
The four rounds of negotiations were a success for Morocco. Morocco has participated with good faith and with good will in the four rounds of negotiations, while the Polisario and Algeria applies a standing position. Morocco extends from the Polisario and Algeria hand to reach a political and final solution.
It is the Front Polisario and Algeria, which rejects this solution, is neither victor nor vanquished and their position holds, especially Algeria, which claimed to be not affected by the conflict, and that have to home the refugee camps in his territory. Morocco tried every means possible to convince them that this solution is the appropriate solution and that the plan Backer is buried.
It is very good if you are accepting the children in the camps of refugees. It is a good initiative to be welcome, but we must not forget that the front Polisario is the source of the suffered experienced by these children. These children are a puppet in the hands from Polisario, which it presents as a theater drama to get more help. These children are the victims of the exploitation and of the propaganda’s purposes of the front Polisario. More, these children lives away from their original country Morocco and are deported to Cuba, where they work in the fields. Her real place is Morocco, where they cans benefit from the education and enjoy all their rights.