A group of sixty Sahrawis of the Tindouf camps, southern Algeria, staged lately a sit-in in front of the Headquarters of the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), to demand the protection of the United Nations against the oppression and tyranny of the Polisario militiamen.
Several representatives from Morocco’s southern provinces and advocates of human rights took the floor at the 19th session of the UN Committee of 24, convening in New York, to highlight the major social and economic development accomplished in the Moroccan Sahara, which has become a model of...
Guinea reiterated, at the meeting of the United Nations Committee of 24 in New York, its support for the Moroccan autonomy initiative, adding that this proposal is a “realistic and credible compromise framework" for the final settlement of the Moroccan Sahara issue.
The State of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reaffirmed, at the meeting of the Committee of 24 of the United Nations, held in New York, its "constant" position in favor of the territorial integrity of Morocco.
Togo reaffirmed, before the United Nations Committee of 24, its support for Morocco’s autonomy plan in the Sahara region, noting that this initiative is a “necessary constructive approach” for the settlement of this regional conflict.
Speaking before the Committee of 24 of the United Nations, Monday in New York, the ambassador, Chargé d'Affaires of Algeria, nervously spoke out against the 15 countries that have all cited Algeria's responsibility as one of the four participants in the Geneva round table meetings, claiming that...
The Kingdom of Bahrain reiterated on Tuesday its support for Morocco's legitimate rights over its southern provinces and all efforts aimed at reaching a political solution to the Sahara issue in the framework of the kingdom's sovereignty and its development initiative in this region.
Who would want the job? Still, I suppose someone has to do it.
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.
The latest UN resolution adopted by the Security Council on the Sahara means that the notions of “independence” or “self-determination referendum” are no longer feasible, underlined the Peruvian Solidarity Council with the so-called SADR, the polisario’s self-declared Sahrawi Republic, supported...
On Monday, the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat attended the Third African Union-United Nations Annual Conference, at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
The Security Council has again renewed the peacekeeping mandate for Western Sahara, MINURSO, for another six months. It did so without the votes of Russia and South Africa, both of who abstained.
Morocco's permanent representative to the UN, ambassador Omar Hilale, shed light, at the Caribbean Regional Seminar of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization held in Saint George’s, Grenada, on the historical truths, the legal bases and the political dimensions of the Moroccanness of the...
The autonomy plan presented by Morocco is a “serious and credible basis” for negotiations aimed at reaching a final political solution to the Sahara issue, said France on Tuesday.
The polisario and its mentors must understand that the world has changed and that the era of separatism is bygone, said, on Tuesday in New York, Morocco’s ambassador to the UN Omar Hilale, affirming that autonomy remains the only solution to the Sahara regional conflict.
UNSC resolution 2468, adopted Tuesday by a large majority, confirmed again Algeria as a main party to the process meant to find a realistic, practical and durable political solution to the Sahara issue which is based on compromise.
The UN Security Council voiced on Tuesday its concern over violations by the polisario of military agreements in the Sahara, while enjoining the separatist movement to fully respect its commitments to UNSG personal envoy Horst Köhler.
The resolution 2468 on the Sahara, adopted on Tuesday by the UN Security Council, has a special significance, said Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, underlining that this resolution includes a qualitative evolution, contains structuring components for the political process and sets the parameters...
The UN Security Council decided, on Tuesday, to extend by six months MINURSO's mandate, reaffirming anew the pre-eminence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative to settle the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara.
Russia supports a quick consensual resolution of the Sahara issue, said on Tuesday Russia’s Deputy Foreign minister Mikhail Bogdanov.
He made the remarks in Moscow after meeting vice chairman of the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO), Talaâ Saoud Atlassi.
If it’s April, it must be another round of charades at the UN Security Council regarding the Western Sahara. And if this year is anything like the past, the latest UN resolution can be written by most Sahara watchers before it is even published.