UK backs Morocco’s autonomy plan for Western Sahara, Lammy says – Middle East Monitor

Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, said yesterday that the UK considers Morocco’s autonomy proposal as the most feasible basis to resolve the conflict over the Western Sahara, Reuters reports.

The long-frozen conflict pits Morocco, which considers the territory as its own, against the Algeria-backed Polisario Front, which seeks an independent state in the desert territory.The autonomy plan submitted by Morocco in 2007 stands “as the most credible,…