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The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres deplored that his efforts to avoid escalation in Guerguarat have failed and vowed that the UN will work to maintain the ceasefire. In a response by his spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, Guterres said he “remains committed to avoid the collapse of the ceasefire.” Morocco said its army managed to set […]
The scams operated by the Algeria-backed Polisario group at the United Nations have been exposed by the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his latest report to the Security Council on the Sahara. In their elaborate schemes to deceive the international community after the series of diplomatic setbacks suffered by the separatists and their Algerian supporters, […]
In the wake of the Polisairo’s ceasefire violations and threats to return to arms, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres deplored a worsened cooperation with the separatist front. “There was a notable decline in compliance with the terms of military agreement No. 1, particularly east of the berm,” Guterres said in his latest report to the […]
The UN Secretary General reaffirmed, in his latest report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara, made public on Friday evening, the fundamentals of the political solution to this regional dispute, as recommended by the Security Council in all its resolutions since 2007. On October 30, 2019, the Security Council adopted resolution 2494 by […]
Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres discussed Friday several issues of cooperation between Morocco and the UN, including sustainable development, the fight against terrorism, the crisis in Libya and the Sahara conflict. The talks in a video conference were held on the sidelines of the high-level debate of the United […]
In a report covering a decade of the UN action in the Sahara, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres deplored the destructive role played by Algeria in blocking a political solution to the over four-decade conflict. The report points out to the multiple efforts led by successive UN envoys citing the roundtables held in December 2018 […]
The UN Secretary General has called on Israel to abandon its annexation plans in the West Bank, deploring that these plans bring the region further than than ever from peace. “We are at a watershed moment”, António Guterres told a virtual meeting of the Security Council on Wednesday. “If implemented, annexation would constitute a most […]
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in an annual report on Sahara that Morocco stood out by its excellent cooperation with the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, at all levels. The Royal Armed Forces have helped the MINURSO accomplish its ceasefire monitoring mission, said Guterres in his report. Guterres noted that the MINURSO had […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is preparing to appoint a new personal envoy for the Sahara in replacement of German Horst Köhler, 76, who resigned from his post on May 22nd 2019 “for health reasons”. According to diplomatic sources cited by le360.ma web site, the UN chief has not so far submitted any name to […]
All 193 UN member states agreed to the first-ever Global Compact on Migration, which will be formally adopted at a conference in Marrakech in December with a view of making migration safe and orderly while curbing human smuggling and trafficking. The all-encompassing Global Compact seeks to better manage international migration, address its challenges, strengthen migrant […]