By Youssef El Kaidi
Morocco World News
Fez, April 22, 2013
The position of the United States regarding the Sahara issue remained unchanged, despite the proposal made by Washington to expand the prerogatives of MINURSO to monitor human rights, said Sunday evening the Ambassador of the United States to Morocco, Samuel Kaplan.
In his intervention at the opening of the twelfth April seminar of the Institute of the American Legation in Tangier for Moroccan Studies, Samuel Kaplan, who is about to leave Morocco after a four-year mission in the Kingdom, said that the United States continues to support ?a peaceful and consensual solution for this conflict.?
Mr. Kaplan also noted that Washington considers the Moroccan initiative to grant the southern provinces an extended autonomy under the sovereignty of the Kingdom as ?serious, credible and realistic,? noting that any solution must be the result of negotiations between the various parties of the conflict.
The U.S. diplomat admitted that the proposal to extend the powers of the MINURSO has caused consternation and anger in Morocco. This has created a tension between the two countries, but he said he was confident about the quality of bilateral relations between Morocco and the USA and their ability to overcome such disputes.
He continued that such kind of disagreements occasionally happen between allies but do not affect the strength of their relations.
The work of the April seminar continued until Monday, April 22, at the headquarters of the American Legation in Tangier, with the participation of Moroccan and American researchers and university professors, meeting under the theme: ?The strategic dialogue between Morocco and the United States.?
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