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".
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The UN Security Council on Wednesday welcomed the new political momentum given by the round-table process initiated by the former Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara, Horst Kohler, whose efforts in this regard have been commended by the Council.
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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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Maintaining the Sahara issue on the decolonization agenda of the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly is an anomaly that runs against the UN charter and the mandate of the Security Council.
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The UN Fourth Committee adopted, Wednesday without a vote, a resolution that reiterates support for the political process initiated by the United Nations for the settlement of the Sahara issue, and calls upon all the parties to cooperate fully with the Secretary-General to achieve a political...
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Venezuela expressed, Wednesday before the Fourth Committee of the United Nations, its support for a "negotiated political solution" to put an end to the artificial dispute over the Moroccan Sahara.
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Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, ambassador Omar Hilale, said, on Wednesday before the 4th Committee of the UN, that autonomy is the only solution to the Moroccan Sahara issue.
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Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, ambassador Omar Hilale, highlighted, Wednesday before the 4th Committee of the United Nations, the political, economic and social development of the southern provinces of the Kingdom through the huge investments made by Morocco in the...
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Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, ambassador Omar Hilale, said, on Wednesday before the UN 4th Committee, that the process of decolonization of the Southern Provinces was indeed completed in 1975 and that the decolonization of the Moroccan Sahara was carried out in...
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Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, ambassador Omar Hilale, exposed, Wednesday before the 4th Committee of the United Nations, the human rights violations perpetrated by Polisario in the Tindouf camps.