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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 […]
The Security Council is expected to adopt this Wednesday (30 Oct.) a US draft resolution, renewing the mandate of the MINURSO for one year instead of six months. The current mandate expires on 31 October. France and other Security Council members have also been advocating a return to a yearlong mandate for several months. A […]
The Cuban President has totally overlooked the Algeria-backed Polisario and its self-proclaimed Sahrawi Republic SADR, in his address before the XVIII Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, heralding a change of position regarding the artificial Sahara conflict. In his speech, whose full text was posted on the official website of the Cuban presidency, President Miguel Mario […]
The Indonesian government has renewed its firm backing to the efforts engaged by the United Nations for reaching an enduring political solution to the Sahara issue. This supportive stand to Morocco’s territorial integrity was voiced Monday in Jakarta by Indonesia foreign minister Mrs Retno Marsudi at a meeting held with Moroccan peer Nasser Bourita. The […]
The United Kingdom’s ambassador to Morocco Thomas Reilly has pointed out that the United Nations must play an exclusive role in the Sahara settlement process and that a solution to the Sahara issue is to be found within the United Nations. The British ambassador who pointed out that his country “understands very well the importance […]
The mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, will be extended by one year at the expiry of the current mandate this October 31 instead of six months. The one-year extension was proposed by the US and France. UN Security Council broke with its tradition of renewing the UN peacekeeping mission by one […]
President Vladimir Putin has not invited the polisario separatist group, backed by Algeria, to the flagship first Russia-Africa Summit meant to increase Russia’s influence in the continent and to enhance its cooperation with African countries, while countering the growing presence of China. The exclusion of the secessionists from this event, held Oct.23-24 in the city […]
Former Secretary General of Algeria’s all-powerful FLN party, Amaar Saadani, voiced the discontent within the Algerian political class regarding the blind support and lavish spending on the separatist Polisario front. The former number 3 in state apparatus told TSA news outlet that the Sahara has always been Moroccan and that the Polisario is a waste […]
Moroccan university professor and writer Bachir Edkhil has affirmed that the option of a referendum in the Sahara has become obsolete and incompatible with the reality of the region. Speaking at a conference held lately at Anáhuac University in Mexico City under the theme: “Sahara: Spanish census & colonial goals”, Mr. Edkhil said Algeria and […]
Maintaining the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda of the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly is an anomaly that runs against the UN charter and the mandate of the Security Council. Listing the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda is an aberration that is contradicted with Article 12 of the UN charter which […]