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Algeria’s pathological obsession with the Moroccan Sahara was exposed before the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly by the Morocco’s delegation, proving, if need be, that Algeria is indeed a main party to this regional dispute. In response to the Algerian representative’s fallacious allegations regarding the human rights situation in the Moroccan Sahara and […]
The projectiles fired into Smara on Saturday killing one and injuring three others are a “terrorist act” and an “act of war” that will not go unpunished, said Omar Hilale Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN. Speaking to the press after the renewal of the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Sahara for […]
Despite the frost in Rabat-Paris relations, France has leant towards Morocco’s stance at the UN urging all parties, including Algeria, to resume the round tables process with a view to finding a political solution to the Sahara conflict, while stressing the pre-eminence of the autonomy plan. “I reaffirm the historic and straightforward and steady support […]
The UN Security Council deplored the abject living conditions and rights violations in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps in Algeria and urged a headcount of the population held there. The Council strongly reiterated its “request for a refugee registration in the Tindouf refugee camps,” reads the resolution 2703 adopted following a vote of 13 in favor […]
The UN Security Council has barred the road to any reference to the obsolete and unfeasible referendum option, stating clearly that the MINURSO should align its focus to help achieve a mutually acceptable solution based on compromise. The UN Security Council “emphasizes the need to achieve a realistic, practicable, enduring and mutually acceptable political solution […]
Morocco welcomed the UN Security Council Resolution 2703 renewing for another year the mandate of the peacekeeping mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, and reiterating the credible and serious character of the autonomy plan. “The growing international support for the autonomy initiative and the opening in Laayoune and Dakhla of some 30 consulates and the non-recognition […]
The United Nations Security Council decided on Monday to extend the mandate of the UN Mission for the Sahara, MINURSO, for one year, while enshrining, once again, the preeminence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative to settle the regional dispute over the Sahara. The Security Council “decides to extend the mandate of MINURSO until October 31, […]
UK Foreign Office has renewed its supportive stand to the “UN-led efforts to reach a just, lasting, and mutually acceptable political solution” to the Sahara regional conflict. Responding to a written question on the Sahara issue at the House of Commons, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State David Rutley said : “We support the work of Staffan […]
The Polisario separatist front has claimed responsibility for the attack that occurred in the night from Saturday to Sunday in the city of Es-Smara. The claim came in a statement released this Sunday evening and reproduced by the so-called Sahrawi news agency. The attack hit four impact zones in three neighborhoods of the city of […]
The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) urged all African countries to cooperate with the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR including in terms of refugee protection and documentation. In a statement on October 27, the PSC stressed the need for African countries to cooperate with the UN agency on refugee documentation to […]