Despite a renewed emphasis in the Security Council on the need for the Parties to be “realistic” and willing to “compromise” in order to achieve a “mutually acceptable political solution” to the problem in Western Sahara, the Polisario has remained stubbornly intractable on its core position.
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Ever since Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and Peter van Walsum submitted his final report to the Security Council as the Secretary General’s Personal Envoy, there has been an added emphasis on the word “realistic” in the search for a solution to the problem in Western Sahara.
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The Council of the Socialist International (SI), convened on Jan. 28-29 in the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo, adopted a recommendation in support of the search for a negotiated political solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue.
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The territorial integrity of the Kingdom and its stability is a strategic priority for Turkey, said, Friday in Rabat, Ibrahim Kalin, envoy of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is carrying a message to HM King Mohammed VI.
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Only few days after the diplomatic victory scored by Rabat with the adoption by the European Parliament with a large majority of the Morocco-EU Farm Agreement that covers the Sahara, the U.S.
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The adoption of the agriculture agreement between the European Union (EU) and Morocco, thanks to a favorable vote by a large majority of the European Parliament, marks the beginning of a new stage in relations between the two parties, said, Wednesday in Rabat, EU High Representative for Foreign...
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The European Parliament's adoption, by an overwhelming majority, of the Morocco-European Union (EU) agriculture agreement testifies to the Kingdom's privileged position with the EU as a strategic partner with its own particularities, said, Wednesday in Rabat, minister of Foreign Affairs and...
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The absence of a final settlement for the Sahara issue hampers the integration of the Maghreb and promotes terrorism and all kinds of trafficking in the region, said European Deputy Aymeric Chauprade.
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It is a famous advertising line that Morocco was the first country to recognize the British American colonies (thirteen), at the heist of the American revolutionary war in 1777, which culminated in the signing of the Treaty of Marrakech (also called Treaty of Friendship) on the 28th of June 1786...
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Japanese Foreign minister Taro Kono reiterated, Monday in Rabat, his country's stance on the Sahara issue, saying that Japan does not recognize the pseudo "SADR" as a State.
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US magazine, International Policy Digest, published Wednesday a long story on Moroccan-Algerian strained relations that hamper the integration of the Maghreb region and tried to analyze the ins and outs of this situation.
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Members of a delegation of the U.S. Conference of Western Attorneys General who visited Morocco lately have stressed the need for continued U.S. support to help Morocco resolve the Sahara conflict, describing Morocco as “an exporter of peace”.
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As someone who has closely followed the Western Sahara conflict for the past twenty years, it is apparent to me that the United States has only two choices to address the issue. Either it can maintain the status quo, as it has pretty much done since 2008 (i.e.
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Speaking to reporters in Washington, the US National Security Advisor John Bolton said that he is frustrated that the Western Sahara conflict has not been solved. The official took the opportunity to criticize the policy of China and Russia in Africa.
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Russia's ambassador to Morocco Valerian Shuvaev told Russian news agency...
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It appears that UN Personal Envoy Horst Kohler’s reported request that the Parties refrain from extensive comments to the media following their Geneva meeting of December 5 and 6 has largely been respected, thus far. Little of substance has been reported. Nevertheless, there are some clues.
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The round table on the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, to take place on Wednesday and Thursday in Geneva, offers the opportunity to settle the issue of confidence-building measures, said Monday State Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mounia...
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Speaking at a joint press conference with his counterpart Nasser Bourita, at the end of a meeting in Berlin, Maas underlined the need to lay the bases for an integrated regional development and seize all opportunities to ensure success.
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So, MINURSO has been renewed for another six months and Horst Kohler will hold a meeting in Geneva in December. Does anyone expect Algeria or the Polisario to have an epiphany before gathering around the table with Morocco and Mauritania in Switzerland? Not very likely.
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On October 31, the United Nations Security Council renewed the peacekeeping mandate for its mission in Western Sahara, MINURSO, for another six months, as Washington had insisted, rather than the twelve that the Secretary General had recommended in his early October report to the Council.
