Corcas chairman interviewed by "Le Point magazine"
With the autonomy plan of the southern provinces, HM the king Mohammed VI " has started the 2nd green march which is definitely going to turn over a new leaf of past problems ", asserted the chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Mr Khalihenna Ould Errachid, in a interview published on April 15, 2006 by « Le Point magazine » weekly entitled “HM the King is revolutionizing Morocco”.
Mr Khalihenna Ould Errachid maintained that the third visit of the Sovereign to the southern provinces was historical in various aspects, underlining that the fact that HM the King moves with this frequency gives an idea about the importance that the Sovereign gives to this region of the Kingdom.
The visit was historical and important since «for the first time in the Moroccan history, HM the King officially granted autonomy to this territory as final resolution ", he said.
Concerning the setting up of CORCAS, he pointed out that the Council constitutes a new tool with a fundamental role which is to assist the Sovereign regarding questions relating to the defence of the territorial integrity and the Kingdom’s national unity.
The nomination of CORCAS members, he explained, has obeyed to the representativeness criterion in order to bring about a mosaic which faithfully reflects the Sahrawi society and comprises elected representatives, notables, Chioukhs, civil society, women and former prisoners.
According to Mr Khalihenna Ould Errachid, with the creation of CORCAS, Sahrawis have already begun managing their affairs democratically. «This is training on a large scale and we begin to feel entirely implicated in the process", he underlined.
«All Sahrawis wherever they are, in the southern provinces or the Tindouf camps, in Mauritania, in Spain or elsewhere have to acknowledge that the HM the King’s autonomy plan is a project which historically and definitely settles conflicts ", he added, maintaining that autonomy assures to Sahrawis their political, economic, social and cultural rights " definitely and in a way unanimously recognized by the Moroccan people”.
«For Sahrawis, the attachment to HM the King is more important than the attachment to rights, and allegiance is the pillar of all this” he concluded.
