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"We welcome the rejection of the extension of this agreement. As we have always said, the agreement that the Commission is now proposing to extend is unacceptable. It is unacceptable that an agreement signed between the European Union and Morocco provides for the exploitation of a natural resource of Western Sahara, a territory illegally occupied by Morocco since 1975. Morocco’s sovereignty over the territory of Western Sahara has never been recognised by any country to this day. With this agreement – contrary both to international law and to various UN resolutions on this issue – the EU does implicitly recognise it. This has therefore been the only solution compatible with international law. The Commission ought to take it very seriously. Its attitude has been deplorable throughout the entire process. It should be noted that Parliament can exercise its right of consent only two months before the scheduled expiry date for the end of this extension, which, in practical terms, started in February.
The fact that there is no longer a legal agreement in place to protect fishing activities in that area, as there has been for the past 10 months, now puts us in a difficult position. The Commission is now obliged to rectify the serious issues associated with this agreement, and which we have been denouncing for a long time, in any future agreements."@en1
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