Morocco is particularly concerned over the situation in the Tindouf camps concerning the transfer by the host country of its powers to a non-state and separatist actor, on its territory, thus maintaining an unprecedented situation in international law, said on Wednesday Permanent Representative...
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Morocco respects the prerogatives of the UN Secretary-General regarding the appointment of a new Personal Envoy for the Sahara, said, on Friday in Laayoune, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad Nasser Bourita.
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The Spanish Congress of Deputies (lower house of Parliament) on Tuesday unanimously adopted a motion calling for a "just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution" to the Sahara issue.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccan Expatriates, Nasser Bourita, reiterated, Sunday in Addis Ababa, the exclusivity of the United Nations as a framework for finding a solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue.
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Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, confirmed, Sunday in Addis Ababa, the exclusivity of the United Nations in the resolution of the Moroccan Sahara issue.
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The UN expressed satisfaction at the peaceful crossing of the Guerguarat border crossing from Morocco to Mauritania despite verbal provocations by the Algerian-backed separatist militia to disrupt the competition.
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United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, underlined Saturday the importance "to allow for regular civilian and commercial traffic" to proceed in Guerguerat and to refrain from any action that may constitute a change to the status quo of the Buffer Strip.
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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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Enforced disappearances, endless persecution of human rights activists, reprisals against opponents, embezzlement, recruitment of children, lack of freedom of movement… the list of abuses committed by the polisario armed militias in the Tindouf camps is very long.
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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 Western Sahara question was one of the topics discussed, Thursday, by US State Secretary Mike Pompeo and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita in Rabat.
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Morocco has protested to the UN and the Security Council against the Polisario’s intention to hold its 15th Congress, from 19 to 23 December, in Tifariti, a demilitarized zone under the MINURSO exclusive control.
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In October 30, the United Nations Security Council voted to renew its peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, MINURSO. The renewal broke with the recent practice of shortening the mandate and extended MINURSO for another 12 months.
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The case of Ahmed El Khalil, a former leader of the “polisario” who has been missing since 2009, will be referred as a case of enforced disappearance to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva.
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By adopting resolution 2494 on the Moroccan Sahara on Wednesday, the UN Security Council reaffirmed the relevance of the Moroccan position and reinforces the positive momentum and growing support for the fundamentals of this position, said, Thursday in Rabat, minister of Foreign Affairs, African...
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The growing support for Morocco's position on the Sahara issue is "the result of a national consensus, an active diplomacy, the appropriation of the Autonomy Initiative by the concerned population and a development dynamics on the ground," said Wednesday, in New York, Morocco's Permanent...
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Thanks to internet and social media, human rights abuses that once went unreported in the Tindouf camps are now known by "everyone", said Wednesday in New York Morocco's permanent representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale.
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The UN Security Council praised, Wednesday, the role of the Regional Commissions of the National Human Rights Council (CNDH) in Dakhla and Laayoune, as well as Morocco's interaction with Special Procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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The UN Security Council reiterated on Wednesday its "concern" over violations by Polisario of military agreements in the Sahara, while enjoining the separatist movement to respect its "commitments" in this regard to the former Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General, Horst Köhler.
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The UN Security Council resolution No 2494, which was adopted Wednesday by a large majority, confirms again Algeria as a main party to the process meant to achieve "a realistic, practical and sustainable political solution" to the Sahara issue "which is based on compromise".