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The UN Security Council, UNSC, has praised the kingdom of Morocco for its laudable contribution into solving Libyan longstanding political crisis The praises came Thursday during the briefing by acting head of the UN Special Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), Stéphanie Williams. During this last briefing of her mandate, Stéphanie Williams presented the Report of the […]
Morocco denounced in a letter to the UN Secretary General South Africa’s use of its rotating chairmanship of the African Union to mislead the international community and spread false news on the Sahara issue. The letter, which was recently published by the UN, was written by Morocco’s permanent ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale who […]
The proposed UN envoy for the Sahara, ex-Romania’s Prime Minister, Petre Roman has been rejected by the Algeria-backed polisario front, according to Moroccan news website le360.com. Refusing the pick of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to fill the vacant post since May 2019 following the resignation of German Horst Köhler, will deepen further the […]
The United States has submitted to all 193 UN member states the US presidential proclamation recognizing Morocco’s full sovereignty over its entire Sahara territory. The text of the American recognition of the Moroccan Sahara was sent to all UN member countries by US permanent representative to UN Kelly Craft in the six official languages of […]
Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, on Tuesday sent a letter to the UN Secretary General and to the President and members of the Security Council, in which he denounced South Africa’s the maneuvers and misleading tactics about the Sahara issue. The Moroccan ambassador’s letter comes following the correspondence that South Africa’s Permanent […]
The Group of Friends for the elimination of violence against women and girls was officially launched Tuesday at the UN headquarters in New York. The aim of the group is to coordinate action and share information on the elimination of gender-based violence (GBV), and to follow up on the UN Secretary-General’s call earlier this year […]
The United Nations on Wednesday expressed “appreciation” for Morocco’s efforts to bring Libyans around the negotiating table for a political solution to the crisis in Libya, and welcomed the understandings reached by the 2nd round of the inter-Libyan dialogue in Bouznika. Delegations from the Libyan High Council of State and the House of Representatives […]
Participants at the high-level ministerial conference on Libya, co-organized on Monday by the United Nations, welcomed the holding of the inter-Libyan dialogue in Bouznika, whose second round continues in the presence of delegations from the Libyan High Council of State and the House of Representatives. The participants in the virtual high-level meeting “welcomed the […]
The United Nations Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council have reiterated the pre-eminence of the role of the Security Council on matters relating to peace, security and stability in Africa. Members of the two institutions, which held their 14th annual joint consultative meeting by videoconference Wednesday, stressed that when it comes […]
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday warned the Polisario separatists against obstructing regular civil and commercial traffic in the Guerguerat buffer zone, in reaction to the front’s recent moves in the town on the Morocco-Mauritania border. In a statement on behalf of UN Chief, his deputy spokesperson Farhan Haq said that the UN has […]