“This supply will allow the sites to remain operational”, he added, noting their “critical need” in particular for fuel.
“It is vital to maintain this momentum and ensure that the mission can continue its efforts on the ground and its presence throughout the territory, with the aim of creating space for progress in the political process” led by the UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, he said.
MINURSO resumes its movements to the east of the defense wall following being prevented from doing so by the Polisario. The UN Secretary General’s latest report in October highlighted the “increasingly serious consequences” of supply problems on the ability of Minurso teams east of the wall to maintain their presence in this “austere” terrain. “.
This resumption comes a few days before the meeting of the Security Council which will hold consultations behind closed doors to take note of the briefings of the Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary General for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, and the head of MINURSO , Alexander Ivanko, on the situation in the Sahara.
Staffan de Mistura had invited representatives of the parties (Morocco, Polisario Front, Algeria and Mauritania) and of the “group of friends of the Sahara” (France, Russia, Spain, United Kingdom and United States) to New York at the end of March to a series of informal bilateral meetings.
(With AFP)
