“This serves as an affirmation of Moroccan sovereignty over its Southern Provinces,” he told MAP, commenting on the recent court ruling that dismissed the Confédération Paysanne, an organization that has repeatedly demonstrated its dogmatic alignment with the “polisario”.
On Tuesday, the Tarascon Court issued a ruling condemning the Confédération Paysanne, which aimed to prohibit the French company specializing in the marketing of fruit and vegetables from Morocco, including the Southern Provinces, IDYL, from distributing its products.
A few weeks before, the High Court in London handed down a ruling that formalized the rejection by the British justice system of the request by a pro-separatist NGO to overturn the trade agreement between Morocco and the UK.
According to the Serbian Scholar, the Tarascon Court represents “another instance of a European court denying the legal standing to such organizations to represent the interests of the people of the Sahara.”
“The idea behind the legal proceedings brought in various European countries by NGOs claiming to be damaged by economic agreements between Morocco and these countries is to bend the legal systems of these countries to the aims of a certain political project,” said Mr. Vucic, who is also a senior research fellow at the Belgrade-based Institute of International Politics and Economics.
This political project aims to promote the separatist thesis and seek legitimacy for the Polisario, he explained, adding that “judicial decisions, such as the one recently adopted by the Court of the French city of Tarascon, go against these aims.”
“This politicization of a judicial process goes against the decisions of the UN Security Council, which reserve the exclusive right for the UN process” to reach a final solution to the Sahara issue, the scholar concluded.
