France is ready to invest alongside Morocco in Western Sahara. territory claimed by the Sahrawi separatists of the Polisario Front.

“We must ensure that we work together, we have common interests,” Franck Riester told journalists at the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Casablanca. France is the leading foreign investor in Morocco and trade reached a record of 14 billion euros in 2023. The UN considers it a “non-self-governing territory”.