The issue of the Moroccan Sahara is a question of territorial integrity and not of "decolonization", said Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, ambassador Omar Hilale, who was speaking at the C24 session in New York.
-
-
The Moroccan Autonomy Initiative for the Sahara region was strongly supported by a majority of member states of the Committee of 24, Subsidiary Body of the UN General Assembly. This Initiative, described as serious and credible by the Security Council since 2007, seeks to reach a negotiated and...
-
Two elected officials of the southern provinces took part Monday for the first time in the annals of the Committee of 24 under the UN General Assembly, in their capacity as elected representatives of the Moroccan Sahara region.
-
On Sunday 20th of May, the Polisario Front made sure to commemorate the outbreak of its armed struggle in Tifariti, located east of the Moroccan Berm. The decision discredits the movement’s stance and will to conduct direct negotiations with the Kingdom.
-
United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, said on Saturday that no action should be taken which "may constitute a change to the status quo" regarding the Sahara issue.
-
Algerian-backed Polisario separatists announced the organization on May 20 of military parades and drills in the locality of Tifarity, east of the Sahara buffer zone in a blatant violation of UN agreements.
-
Morocco’s United Nations Permanent Ambassador Omar Hilale underscored Morocco’s plans to promote development in Western Sahara, emphasizing that socio-economic progress “should not be held hostage by the political process.”
-
The regional seminar of the Special Committee on decolonization (C-24) of the UN General Assembly, held in Grenada on May 9-11, 2018, saw the participation, for the first time in the annals of this Committee, of two Moroccan Sahara elected officials, namely Mhamed Abba, vice-president of the...
-
Russia blocked the U.N. Security Council’s adoption of the draft resolution on the Western Sahara on Wednesday.
-
Moroccan officials were unanimous in their satisfaction with United Nations Security Council resolution 2414 on Western Sahara adopted on Friday.
-
The Kuwaiti ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirmed on Sunday Kuwait’s principled and firm stance on Morocco's territorial integrity and the importance of solving the Sahara issue within the framework of the Kingdom's sovereignty.
-
Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations, ambassador Omar Hilale said, Friday at UN headquarters, that Security Council resolution 2414 on the renewal of the Minurso mandate "reinforces Morocco's position and firmness towards the recent provocations of +polisario+ to the east of...
-
The UN Security Council said, on Friday, it is "concerned" about the presence of the polisario in Guergarat, calling on the separatist group to "immediately" evacuate the area in the buffer zone.
-
The UN Security Council on Friday called for the resumption of negotiations on the Moroccan Sahara, stressing that "realism" and the spirit of "compromise" are "indispensable" in order to make progress in the negotiations.
-
The United Nations Security Council extended, on Friday, MINURSO's mandate for six months (until October 31st, 2018) and reaffirmed the pre-eminence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative to resolve the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara
-
Formerly a Spanish colony known as Spanish Sahara, Western Sahara is the area of an ongoing territorial conflict between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi rebel movement POLISARIO (the Frente Popular de Liberación de Saguía el Hamra y Río de Oro), backed by Algeria....
-
Since April 1 Morocco has launched an unprecedented diplomatic offensive to mobilize support for its position on the Western Sahara.
-
The UN Security Council is reportedly planning to confine the Polisario militias to Tindouf to force them abide by the UN ceasefire agreements of 1991 and respect the demilitarized zone in the Moroccan Sahara.
-
The Association of Families and Friends of Gdim Izik's Victims expressed, in a message to UNSG Antonio Guterres, their astonishment at the motives of including their case in the UN-brokered Sahara issue.
-
Leaders of political parties, MPs, elected officials, Chioukhs, dignitaries and Sahrawi leader activists, who gathered on Monday in Laayoune as part of a national mobilisation meeting, condemned the manoeuvers led by the enemies of Morocco’s territorial integrity, particularly the recent acts of...
-
Morocco has handed to the UN Secretary General Antonio Gterres and to the President of the Security Council, Peru’s Permanent Representative Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, several evidences of the Algeria-backed Polisario’s breaches of the 1991 ceasefire in the Sahara.