Brussels (Belgium), 1 January 2026 (SPS) – The Polisario Front has filed an appeal before the General Court of the European Union against the latest trade agreement signed between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco, which includes products originating from Western Sahara and entered into force “provisionally” on 3 October.
Oubi Bushraya Bashir, Special Adviser to the President of the Republic in charge of Natural Resources and Related Legal Issues, revealed in a statement to APS that the Polisario Front, as the legitimate and sole representative of the Sahrawi people, possessing legal personality enabling it to plead before European judicial bodies in defense of the rights of the Sahrawi people, filed on 28 December 2025 an appeal before the General Court of the European Union against the most recent trade agreement signed between the European Union and the Kingdom of Morocco in the form of “provisional application.”
The Sahrawi official reiterated that this agreement constitutes a clear violation of the historic rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union issued on 4 October 2024 through “circumventing” the principle and condition of obtaining the consent of the Sahrawi people concerned with the right to self-determination, a requirement affirmed by the Court of Justice of the European Union since its landmark decision in December 2016 and all subsequent rulings.
He further stressed that the agreement also clearly violates the principle that “Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco are two distinct and separate territories,” and that Morocco has no sovereignty of any kind over the territory, by adopting in the new agreement the “territorial and administrative division” used by the Moroccan occupying authorities instead of the country of origin Western Sahara and its internationally recognized code, which is different from that of Morocco.
He recalled that the European Commission and Morocco “negotiated the latest trade agreement not only behind the back of the Sahrawi people and their sole and legitimate representative, the Polisario Front, but also behind the back of the European Parliament—something that angered the latter and nearly led to the rejection of the product-labeling provision on 26 November.”
Oubi Bushraya confirmed that the Polisario Front will continue its legal, diplomatic, and media struggle to consolidate and enforce the sovereignty of the Sahrawi people over their natural resources, to thwart the process of financing Morocco’s continued occupation of Western Sahara through the plundering of its resources, the impoverishment of its people, and the pursuit of its settlement policies.