For the examination of the question of the Moroccan Sahara, the Security Council plans a meeting of the countries contributing troops to MINURSO on October 10 and consultations behind closed doors on October 17. The adoption of the resolution on the Moroccan Sahara by the Security Council is scheduled for 27 October.
The UN Security Council will hold three meetings during the month of October to examine the question of the Moroccan Sahara, the aim being to renew the mandate of MINURSO and to reaffirm support for the efforts of the Secretary General of the UN and its Personal Envoy aimed at reviving the political process by bringing Algeria, the main party to the regional dispute, to resume the process of round tables in accordance with the relevant resolutions, in particular 2602.
By virtue of this resolution adopted on October 29, 2021, the Security Council established, once and for all, the parameters of the political solution that should govern the final settlement of this regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.
Among these parameters is the process of round tables which is the only framework put in place by the Council to pursue the political process, hampered by the shenanigans and the headlong rush of Algeria and its Polisarian puppet. This roundtable process is clearly affirmed and reaffirmed in all Security Council resolutions since their establishment in 2018, by the former Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Horst Köhler. These resolutions also define the four participants in this process, which are Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the “polisario”.
With all due respect to the Algerian regime and its armed separatist militias in the Tindouf camps, this same Council once once more reaffirmed the pre-eminence of the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative, the one and only serious and credible solution to this regional dispute, within the framework of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Kingdom. The solution to this dispute can only be political, realistic, pragmatic, lasting and compromise.
The meetings of the Security Council are being held in a context marked by the large-scale diplomatic successes achieved by the Kingdom, as well as by growing support for the Moroccan character of the Sahara, the legitimacy of the Kingdom’s rights over its southern provinces and the Self-Reliance Initiative. These include, in particular, the recognition by the United States of Morocco’s full and complete sovereignty over its southern provinces and the strong and unequivocal support of the Member States of the United Nations, a large part of which support the autonomy like Spain, Germany and the Netherlands; which generated a European dynamic in favor of autonomy.
For the examination of the question of the Moroccan Sahara, the Council, which will have the annual report of the Secretary-General on the national question, plans a meeting of the troop-contributing countries to MINURSO on October 10 and closed consultations on October 17 . During this meeting, the Security Council should receive a briefing from the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Sahara, Alexander Ivanko and the Personal Envoy of the UN SG for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura.
The adoption of the resolution on the Moroccan Sahara by the Security Council is scheduled for 27 October.
These deadlines come following two visits to the region of the Personal Envoy of the UN SG for the Moroccan Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, during which he met all the parties to this dispute with the aim of relaunching the UN process of round tables with a view to reaching a realistic, pragmatic and lasting political solution, the very incarnation of which is the Moroccan autonomy initiative.
