The blockage in the Guergarate buffer zone, caused by members of the “Polisario”, constitutes a “serious” act of distrust of the United Nations and its Secretary General, director general of Rwanda News Agency (ARI) Andre Gakwaya said on Thursday.
This is a serious act of distrust of the United Nations and the UN Secretary General, who launched three calls for the preservation of free civil and commercial movement in Guergarate, the latest of which is dated October 21, 2020, underlined Gakwaya, who is also a researcher specializing in African matters.
In a statement to MAP, this expert said that the Security Council, and through it the international community, are witnesses of these acts which could “compromise Morocco’s tireless efforts to reach a realistic, pragmatic and durable political solution to the Sahara issue”.
“As a reporter and researcher specializing in Africa, I have observed very closely and for almost three decades the evolution of disputes and conflicts in the region and in the African continent in general. When it comes to the Sahara issue, it must be noted that Morocco has shown the greatest restraint and great attachment to international legitimacy,” he added.
The Kingdom has never ceased to warn, on multiple occasions, the Security Council, the UN Secretariat, and MINURSO about the gravity of the situation and its consequences, in particular about the viability of the ceasefire, the political process and the stability in the region, he said.
“It is obvious that the blockade in the buffer zone of Guergarate runs against the resolutions of the Security Council, which expressed its concern over the presence of the Polisario in the buffer zone”, he noted.
Obviously, this is part of a strategy to change the legal and historical status of the buffer zone, through a policy of fait accompli, according to Gakwaya.
“The Security Council has firmly rejected this strategy in the five resolutions it had adopted since 2017, urging the immediate withdrawal of the Polisario from the buffer zone,” he concluded.
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