MOROCCAN PANIC.
When makhzen draws against Algeria is ,that it is necessarily driven on the diplomatic scene. It is an almost Pavlovian response to a tottering kingdom trying, somehow, to reunite the poor around the Moroccan Throne practicing his favorite sport: breaking Algeria.
The last bitter campaign marked by an unfounded accusation of alleged firing by the Algerian army against Moroccan border, is a perfect illustration.
This is how to approach each month of April, the date of the annual review of the Saharawi question to the Security Council and the inevitable debate on the extension of the mandate of MINURSO for Human Rights, Rabat plays coy virgin.
This time, the kingdom loses his cool following the appointment of Kim Bolduc (Canada), as the new Special Representative of the Secretary-General and head of MINURSO successor to the German Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber, whose term s' was completed on 31 July.
A diplomat that makhzen does not know and who he suspects will to do its job properly laayoun occupied.Rabat tried in vain to get "classifications" but especially "guarantees" that its mandate would not affect his diplomatic agenda of blocking any outcome of peace negotiations in Western Sahara.
For now, Rabat insists on not wanting to host the same way as Mr. Ross wants to make a new tour in the region.
The decisive briefing of Ross.
And the day before the briefing of Christopher Ross, Personal Envoy of Ban Ki-moon to the Security Council, scheduled Monday, October 27, 2014, Rabat is busy and agitated with France and the United States to interfere sheet Road Ross Rabat accused of "double standards".
Makhzen wishes as well as France and the United States give their support at the meeting next Monday.
Nothing is guaranteed as long as media leaks report that Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department, John Desrochers said in Rabat during his visit last week that "the dynamics must continue "and required" avoid freezing the process. " In other words, Ross and his new collaborator Bolduc received support from Washington.
The US has enough and shows her discontent
So the monarchy sees red. Especially since John Desrocher reportedly told Moroccan officials do not understand the "continuing refusal" of Morocco to host Ms. Bolduck and continue to postpone the visit of Mr. Christopher Ross.
It is obvious that the kingdom which is used to choose the most UN diplomats who take care of the Saharawi folder is turned off Thurs The fact is that Christopher Ross is definitely committed to the idea that the Western Sahara is a "territory not independent "in accordance with international law and the resolutions of the United Nations.
And it is the sacred principle of the so-called "Moroccan" of Western Sahara, which falls into the water at the UN. A very dangerous prospect for Rabat has long fooled the world by buying Western backers through the checkbook of his majesty. The time of Realpolitik may have happened. The terrorist threat in the Sahel and Libya tells the powerful of the world need to change their rifle carrying shoulder in a conflict that has dragged on for more than 30 years