The UN Security Council, the body that takes charge of the Sahara issue, is starting the year with new member countries. The new distribution includes several states supporting Morocco in the recovery of its territorial integrity.
While during the last security council which passed the last resolution on the Sahara, Tunisia created a surprise by being the only country, with Russia, a traditional ally of Algeria, to abstain by choosing the camp of evil , at the start of the year, the neighboring country has just lost its seat.
As of January 1, the members of the Security Council were renewed after the end of the mandate of the other non-permanent members, of which Tunisia was a part. For the year that begins and until 2023, it will be new countries that have entered, and among them are allies of Morocco who have recognized the Moroccan Sahara as an integral part of the kingdom.
These include the United Arab Emirates and Gabon, two countries that do not believe and do not adhere to the Sahrawi separatist thesis fomented and nurtured by Algeria aimed at seizing the Sahara, a territory that Morocco has recovered. in 1975 from the Spanish colonization.
The two countries have shown their support for the Moroccan character of the Sahara by opening their respective consulates in Laâyoune in 2020. Other countries are entering, and their position is favorable to Morocco, such as Albania, which sealed its support for Morocco and its territorial integrity in 2015.
The country had begun by recognizing the self-proclaimed and unrecognized “Sahrawi Arab Republic” (rasd), which represents the polisario separatist movement when it was communist. But as early as 2004, Albania broke off relations with the self-proclaimed republic by choosing the path of reason, and by upholding Morocco’s territorial integrity by recognizing its full sovereignty over the Sahara.
Brazil was also newly elected to the Security Council, and the latter never recognized the rasd, unlike several communist regimes of the time in South America. Other countries in the region have also never recognized the separatist movement, such as Argentina and Chile, while more than a dozen Latin American countries have withdrawn their recognition from the separatist militias. .
At the African level, Ghana will also sit on the UN Security Council, this country had established links with the Rasd in 1979, but continues to maintain good relations with Morocco. Accra is also against the shenanigans of Algeria in this conflict and this was manifested by its absence as well as that of Gabon from the Oran meeting in Algeria where the Algerian regime was seeking to give its instructions to the new African members of the SC. to direct them against the integrity of the kingdom.
However, the Polisario and Algeria have two allies on their side at the Council level. These are Norway and Kenya, which recognized the separatist militias in 2013. Their mandate is due to end on December 31, 2022.