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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has highlighted in his report to the Security Council on the Sahara, published Thursday, the fundamentals of Morocco’s position on its Sahara, as expressed by King Mohammed VI in royal speeches over the past year. In this context, the Secretary General stressed that on November 6, 2021, on the occasion of […]
Diplomats, petitioners and experts from around the world continue to commend, at the United Nations, the realistic autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting resolution to the Sahara issue, denouncing the destabilizing scheme of the Algeria-backed Polisario militias having links with terror groups, drug & arms smugglers operating in the Sahel. Addressing the UN […]
More international law experts, university professors and human rights militants continue to support, at the United Nations, Morocco’s realistic autonomy plan for the Sahara and denounce the sufferings endured by the sequestered Sahrawis in the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, Southern Algeria. Addressing the UN fourth Committee, convening in New York, French expert André Grimblatt said that […]
International experts have denounced, in New York, the proven links of the armed separatist group polisario with terrorism and organized crime in the Sahel-Saharan region, warning that the Algeria-backed idea to have a micro-state in the Maghreb is dangerous, and will plunge the whole region in unprecedented violence. The Sahel-Saharan region is a major area […]
The tragedy of children turned into soldiers by the separatist militia of the “polisario” with the blessing and support of the host country, Algeria, in the camps of Tindouf was vigorously denounced, Thursday, before the 4th Committee of the UN General Assembly in New York. Thus, the president of the Christian Democratic Women International, Anna […]
Several elected Moroccan Sahrawis, representatives of NGOs and diplomats have voiced strong support for the autonomy plan offered for the Sahara under Morocco’s sovereignty, and hailed the democracy and inclusive development achieved in the Sahara. During the debate of the UN fourth Committee, the speakers have also exposed the serious human rights abuses committed by […]
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres renewed concerns over the continued restrictions imposed by the separatist polisario front to freedom of movement of MINURSO agents and its provocative maneuvers undermining the UN-led political process on the Sahara. In his report to the UN Security Council, which is expected to renew this October the mandate of the UN […]
Spanish foreign minister José Manuel Albares met on Tuesday with UN Sahara envoy Staffan de Mistura for the fourth consecutive time since the appointment of the Italian-Swedish diplomat to the UN job in October 2021. During the meeting held in Madrid, “I reiterated Spain’s support for his mission,” said Mr. Albares in his Twitter account […]
Luxembourg considers the autonomy plan, presented in 2007 by Morocco, as “a good basis for a solution accepted by the parties” regarding the Sahara issue. This came in a joint statement issued after talks, Tuesday in Rabat, between Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Jean Asselborn, who is on […]
Morocco has once again, in the UN General Assembly, held Algeria responsible for the perpetuation of the conflict in the Sahara territory and for the fate of thousands of Sahraouis living in precarious conditions in the Polisario-run camps in southern-Western Algeria. In response to an address by Algeria’s foreign minister Ramtane Lamamra in which he […]