der timide anfang einer lösung?
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030313/2003031319.html (s. auch:
La Gazette du Maroc: former Algerian defense minister opposes sahrawi state creation:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030311/2003031119.html) ---
Algerian Al Bilad: Former Algerian defense minister's stand on Sahara issue premise for reasonable breakthrough
Algeria-Morocco, Politics, 3/13/2003
Algerian daily Al Bilad wrote on Tuesday that the statement made recently by former Algerian defense minister, General Khaled Nezzar on the Sahara issue tantamounts to "a premise" for the settlement of the three-decade long conflict.
The retired general's statement "is a premise for a reasonable and fair settlement to this issue that exhausted Algerian and Moroccan resources all along three decades, in a no-winner-no-loser conflict," writes Abdelkader Jemaa, Al Bilad's director.
Nezzar, who served as Algeria's defense minister from 1990 to 1993, told Moroccan weekly "La Gazette du Maroc" that he opposes the creation of a Sahrawi state, arguing that his country "does not need a new state at its borders."
The opinion of the retired general, who is "the officious spokesman of the popular national army" reflects "to a great extent the stand of the military institution concerning the settlement of the Sahara issue," argues the editorialist.
"General Nezzar's statement can be considered as the beginning for a reasonable and fair settlement of an issue that has poisoned relations between the two pillars of any serious undertaking aiming to construct an efficient Maghreb Arab Union," the editorialist went on.
He further noted that "in a country where the word surprise is devoid of any meaning, we can't term Nezzar's statement as a surprise, since the Algerians, who were often told that the Sahara is matter of principle (É), have realized that Algeria does no longer need a state at its borders and that the issue could be resolved by way of a formula that would allow Sahrawis to reintegrate their homeland Morocco."
This "sound" undertaking needs to be followed by other sober steps and realistic ideas that will, in turn, subsequently lead to the settlement of all other pending issues between the two brother countries (..) who can't, after all, alter the geography that put them side by side," he concluded.
