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Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid announced on Monday that Israel backed Morocco’s autonomy plan in Western Sahara, during the first official visit of the Moroccan kingdom’s foreign minister to Tel Aviv. On the sidelines of the Negev summit, Lapid hailed Spain’s recent decision to support the Moroccan autonomy plan as a “positive development”. Earlier in March, Madrid voiced its support for Rabat’s autonomy plan in the disputed territory of Western Sahara, over which both the Algeria-backed separatist movement Polisario Front and Morocco claim sovereignty and “historical right” over. This wa…