2023-04-20 20:39:53
The UN Security Council held closed consultations in New York on the question of the Moroccan Sahara. These regular consultations are provided for in Council resolution 2654 adopted on 27 October.
According to informed sources at UN headquarters, the members of the Security Council were briefed on Wednesday by the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, as well as by the Special Representative of the Secretary general and head of MINURSO, Alexander Ivanko.
According to these same sources, the Moroccan autonomy initiative was widely appreciated and supported by a large number of members of the Council who considered that it constitutes the serious, credible and pragmatic solution to put a definitive end to the regional dispute over the Sahara. Moroccan. In this regard, it should be recalled that resolution 2654 and all those that preceded it since 2007 have consecrated the pre-eminence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative.
Similarly and according to these sources, the members of the Security Council unanimously reaffirmed their support for the exclusively UN political process which aims to achieve a political, realistic, pragmatic, lasting and compromise solution to the question of the Moroccan Sahara. The members all once once more gave their support to Mr. de Mistura’s efforts to relaunch the UN political process, enshrined in all Security Council resolutions since 2007. In this context, the resumption of round tables, with the participation particularly from Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, was highlighted. The round table process was reaffirmed in resolution 2654, and in those that preceded it since 2018, as the only framework for holding the political process.
The members of the Council also expressed their appreciation for the organization by the Personal Envoy, at the end of last March, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, of informal bilateral consultations, in particular with Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, thus confirming Algeria’s status as the main party to this regional dispute which it created and has maintained for half a century, in defiance of the interests and common destiny of the peoples of the five Member States of the Arab Maghreb Union.
It should also be recalled that Algeria’s role has been enshrined in all Security Council resolutions since 2018, including resolution 2654, which asks it to remain engaged in the round table process in a spirit of realism and compromise to make it happen. Unfortunately, Algeria continues to violate Security Council resolutions and therefore international law by refusing to take part in the round tables, when two of its former foreign ministers, namely Lamsahel and Lamamra, took part respectively in September 2018 and March 2019.
These very concordant sources within the UN indicated that other members of the Council welcomed the stability and prosperity which reign in the Moroccan Sahara by highlighting the all-out development experienced by the southern provinces of the Kingdom. thanks to the new model of development of these provinces, which constitutes a scathing denial of the fallacious allegations of Algeria and its puppet the “polisario” regarding the situation in the Moroccan Sahara and the existence of a so-called conflict.
Similarly, the opening of general consulates in the cities of Laayoune and Dakhla was highlighted during these consultations, as well as the growing recognition of the Moroccan character of the Sahara by the international community.
Furthermore, Morocco’s attachment to the ceasefire and its fruitful cooperation with MINURSO to facilitate the implementation of its ceasefire supervision mandate were highlighted during these consultations.
The renunciation by the “polisario”, on the orders of Algeria, of the ceasefire was the subject of great concern by the members of the Council who urged this separatist group to return to the ceasefire.
The obstructions of the “polisario” to MINURSO’s ceasefire supervision activities, in particular its violations of military agreements and freedom of movement and the blocking of supply convoys, were denounced by the members of the Council who demanded an end to its condemnable violations.
The renunciation by the “polisario” of the ceasefire and its inadmissible attacks on MINURSO were laid bare by the UN Secretary General in his report to the Council last October.
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