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The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has recently submitted a report on the Sahara issue to the UN General Assembly, covering the period from 2011 to 2020, reaffirming Algeria’s role as the main party to the regional dispute, as established by the Security Council, in several of its resolutions, and the preeminence of the Autonomy […]
UN Security Council commended in its latest resolution on Sahara the work of the National Human Rights Council in the southern cities of Dakhla and Laayoune. The resolution, which extends the mandate of the UN mission in Sahara by another year, welcomed “steps and initiatives taken by Morocco, the role played by the Commissions of […]
The UN Security Council reiterated on Wednesday its “concern” over the Polisario’s violations of military agreements in the Sahara, and urged the separatist movement to respect the “commitments” it made in this regard to the former UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy Horst Köhler. The Security Council reaffirms, in resolution 2494 adopted on Wednesday, “the importance of […]
Resolution 2494 of the UN Security Council renewing for one year the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara MINURSO has also reiterated the call on Algeria to contribute to the settlement of the Sahara conflict. Algeria, which arms, hosts and backs the Polisairo separatist front diplomatically has refused in the last four decades […]
As was expected, the UN Security Council extended the UN mission in the Sahara (MINURSO) for another year while lauding Morocco’s autonomy initiative to end the over four-decade dispute. Resolution 2494, adopted by a sweeping majority at the Security Council, Wednesday oct. 30, restored the tradition of extending the MINURSO by one year after an […]