Gustavo de Arístegui is a Spanish politician, diplomat and an international analyst. He comes from a long-standing diplomatic background, his father and grandfather were both senior diplomats posted as ambassadors in Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. Gustavo de Arístegui was elected to Parliament from the Basque region for three terms and served as Shadow Foreign Minister from 2008–2012. He is currently a member of the Board of the European Council of Foreign Relations and has authored four books on Arab politics and Islam.
Gustavo de Arístegui have had the opportunity to speak with many Saharawis and they continue to maintain their desire for family reunification, to be reunited with their relatives who are living badly in Tindouf, and with the commitment that Morocco can offer them access to decent housing, health care, etc., and to normalise a situation that, in addition to the geopolitical interests that you have described, has a fundamental human side. According to Gustavo de Arístegui, the people living in Tindouf need a dignified way out, because many of them want to go to Morocco or any other country in the world to start a life different from that of refugees living in Tindouf.
Gustavo also acknowledges that they do not have all the information because, in his opinion, the explanations that should have been more in-depth have not been given. When one takes a decision of this magnitude, one has previously taken the necessary measures to try to mitigate the foreseeable reaction of the other party. In any case, Gustavo de Arístegui ventures to say that diplomacy is an art in which states try to settle disputes in the most efficient and least costly way for the parties.
“The Moroccan autonomy plan for the Sahara is in no way at odds with the UN resolutions, it has been presented to the UN and for years the United Nations has been taking note of the Moroccan autonomy plan and it has been put on the table for discussion by all the parties concerned”, Gustavo de Arístegui asserts. He also states that an agreement has not yet been reached on it because it has not been discussed in depth. Consequently, what the parties not concerned cannot do is reject an autonomy plan as contrary to the United Nations resolutions when the UN accepts it as a possible negotiation within its framework, and the parties concerned have not reached a complete agreement or disagreement on the plan. Therefore, we cannot get ahead of the resolutions, however concerned we may be in this conflict which has lasted almost fifty years, Gustavo explained.
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