A UN spokesperson was barely convincing when he tried to justify the presence of two MINURSO peacekeepers, on Wednesday, December 19, during the opening of the Polisario’s pseudi- congress held in Tifariti, a demilitarized zone east of the Moroccan security wall.
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The brief presence of two Minurso military observers at the so-called Polisario Congress in Tifariti "does not imply any political position" on their part or on Minurso's, which remains "strictly impartial in the fulfillment of its mandate," said on Monday Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the...
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The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) has finally reacted to terror threats in the Tindouf camps, mentioned November in an alert published by the Spanish Foreign Ministry.
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The UN Security Council on Wednesday decided to extend by one year MINURSO's mandate, reaffirming anew the pre-eminence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative to settle the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara.
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The United States, as member of the ‘Club of Friends of Western Sahara’, is expected to submit a draft resolution on the territorial conflict eight days ahead of the deadline.
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In his latest report on the Moroccan Sahara, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres commended Morocco's full and complete cooperation with MINURSO, stressing that thanks to the cooperation of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR), the UN mission has been able to resolve all outstanding issues...
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In his report on the Moroccan Sahara to the Security Council, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has, once again, called on the polisario to comply with the practice established since the inception of MINURSO, consisting of meeting with his Special Representative Colin Stewart and MINURSO...
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On Thursday, September 19, MINURSO leader Colin Stewart visited Tindouf. In the camps, the Canadian UN peacekeeper held talks with the Polisario’s «Red Crescent» president Bouhnini Yahya, who asked UN officials to provide more international help.
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Russian diplomacy is preparing for the October deadline in the Security Council on the Sahara issue. On Wednesday, 4 September, the Chargé d'Affaires at the Moscow Embassy in Rabat, Maksim Ganzei, met in the capital with the Commander of MINURSO Peacekeepers, Force Commander Zia Ur Rehman.
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MINURSO is not the oldest UN peacekeeping mission. That distinction belongs to UNTSO, the peacekeeping operation headquartered in Jerusalem and UNMOGIP based in disputed Kashmir along the India/Pakistan border region.
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Recent news items reporting that the US delegation at the United Nations is once again promoting language that would establish some kind of human rights monitoring mechanism as part of the MINURSO mandate have left me scratching my head in utter disbelief.
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The New draft resolution on the Sahara that the Security Council is expected to adopt at the end of April is like the previous one.
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It seems that Morocco is dissatisfied over the latest developments at the Security Council regarding the Sahara issue. This is apparent from the statement made lately by spokesman for the Government Mustapha El Khalfi who said that Foreign Affairs minister Nasser Bourrita has briefed the Govt....
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on Wednesday the appointment of Major General Zia Ur Rehman of Pakistan as Force Commander of the MINURSO.
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Subversive elements of the Polisario Front have openly threatened the peacekeepers of the UN mission in Western Sahara, “MINURSO”, deployed in the region of Guerguarat.
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A Tindouf camp family has been sitting in in front the MINURSO Team-site in Mijek, a small town located east of the Moroccan Wall, to protest against the «unfair» distribution of aid in the camps.
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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.
