Algerian writer and human rights activist, Anwar Malek has ruled out the possibility of war between Algeria and Morocco over the recent escalations between Rabat and the Polisario in the buffer zone.
Malek said in an interview with Quds Press that โthe recent media and political debate between Moroccan and Sahrawi officials or between Moroccan and Algerian officials over Algiers support for the Polisario do not amount to warโ.
โThe war between Morocco and the Polisario is not in the interest of either of them or in the interest of Algeria, and the major powers related to the regionโs countries mainly France do not accept warโ he said.
Malek pointed out that โthe recent escalations in the buffer zone by the Polisario and Morocco are related to the new UN envoy for Western Sahara, Horst Kohler schedule to submit his first periodic report of his first tour to the regionโ end of April.
โThe shortest way to end the Sahara conflict is to create a democratic way that enables the Sahrawis to talk about the existing proposalsโ Malek said.
The UN envoy to Western Sahara, Horst Kohler concluded his first tour to the region during which he met with all parties to the conflict and listened to their views.