On October 31, the United Nations Security Council renewed the peacekeeping mandate for its mission in Western Sahara, MINURSO, for another six months, as Washington had insisted, rather than the twelve that the Secretary General had recommended in his early October report to the Council.
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The UNSC enjoined on Wednesday the polisario to fully respect its commitment made to UNSG personal envoy for the Sahara Horst Kohler given the pressing need to avoid any activity whatsoever in Bir Lahlou, Tifariti or the buffer zone in Guergarat.
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The UNSC resolution 2440, adopted on Wednesday by a large majority of the executive body's members, said, for the first time ever, that Algeria is a main party to the process seeking to find a realistic, practical and durable political solution to the Sahara issue.
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The United Nations Security Council extended, on Wednesday with the majority of its members, MINURSO's mandate for six months until April 30, 2019, reaffirming anew the pre-eminence of the Moroccan autonomy initiative to resolve the artificial conflict over the Moroccan Sahara.
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Maintaining the Moroccan Sahara issue on the agenda of the 4th Committee is in flagrant violation of the UN Charter and it is for this reason that this UN body must part with this issue, Morocco's permanent representative to the United Nations, ambassador Omar Hilale, said Tuesday in New York....
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On October the 12th, Brahim Ghali invited the Security Council to let MINURSO organize a referendum in Western Sahara. Two days later, Bachir Mustapha Sayed commented on Ghali’s statement, criticizing the MINURSO’s work.
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Morocco's autonomy plan in the Sahara will promote stability and security in the region, while meeting the democratic aspirations and sustainable development needs of the population, French Senator Francois Grosdidier said Wednesday before the 4th Committee of the United Nations General Assembly...
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International expert and jurist Nykaky Lygeros highlighted on Wednesday before the 4th Committee of the United Nations General Assembly the illegitimacy of the Polisario to represent Sahrawis, noting that the very nature of this separatist movement is today challenged at the international level...
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Morocco may have accepted the UN invitation for talks on Western Sahara, but will use them as a platform to remind participants of its firm conditions.
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The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, submitted to the Security Council last week his report on the situation in Western Sahara.
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Though “official Rabat” has been silent thus far, news reports from UN headquarters in New York and various Moroccan press sources seem to indicate that Morocco will attend the December “roundtable” meeting in Geneva to discuss how best to move forward on the Western Sahara.
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres underlined, in his latest report to the Security Council on the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, that the UN Humanitarian Agencies have continued covering the needs of the Tindouf camps' populations through "the monthly distribution of 125,000 food rations"....
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The UNSG report to the Security Council denounces the Polisario's hampering of MINURSO actions, notably the activities of the Special Representative and the free movement of the Mission's military observers.
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres highlighted, in his latest report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara, the considerable investments in infrastructure and economic development projects in the Southern Provinces of Morocco.
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres asked the Security Council to extend for one year the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara (MINURSO) in order to back the negotiation process.
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In his report on the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, issued today, UNSG Antonio Gutrerres informed members of the Security Council that the "Kingdom of Morocco responded positively, on Oct. 2, to the invitation of my Personal Envoy to an initial round table in Geneva", on Dec. 5-6, 2018.
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Morocco will take part in the round table on the Sahara issue to which Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario were also invited, Moroccan government spokesman Mustapha Khalfi said.
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Pro-Polisario and Algerian media have sounded upbeat about the invitations Horst Kohler, the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General to Western Sahara, extended to the parties of the Western Sahara conflict.
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) confirmed in a statement issued Friday that the official figures used for humanitarian aid planning for the Tindouf camps remain unchanged.
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Morocco has once again underscored the regional character of the Sahara dispute holding Algeria responsible for blocking progress towards a political solution that would put an end to the ordeal of thousands of people held against their will by the separatist Polisario militia with Algiers...
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One day after King Mohammed VI met with the United Arab Emirates’ Crown Prince, Mohamed Ben Zayed, in Abu Dhabi, Gulf states hailed the efforts made by Morocco to solve the Western Sahara dispute at a UNHRC session.