Mauritania reiterated, from the rostrum of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, its “constant position on the conflict in Western Sahara”, its head of diplomacy said on Monday, September 26.
Mohamed Salem Ould Merzoug expressed, on this occasion, his country’s support “for the efforts of the United Nations and all the relevant resolutions of the Security Council aimed at achieving a lasting solution accepted by all”.
As a reminder, the spokesperson for the Mauritanian government, Nani Ould Achrouga, asserted, on September 14, that his country’s position on the regional dispute “has not changed and has remained constant since 1979”. The year marked by the withdrawal of Mauritania from the Madrid agreements of November 14, 1976, and the signing, in August 1979 in Algiers, of a ceasefire with the Polisario. In 1984, Nouakchott announced its recognition of the “Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)”. Since then, Mauritanian officials, civil and military, have been constantly demanding a “positive neutrality” for their country on the question of the Sahara.
President Mohamed Cheikh Ould El Ghazouani received, on September 12, the personal envoy of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura.