UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reaffirmed, in his latest report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara, that his former Personal Envoy Horst Köhler has been able to restore much-needed momentum and impetus to the political process, including through the round-table meetings process he launched, which brought together Morocco, polisario, Algeria and Mauritania.
The UN chief also insisted that it is essential that the continuity of this political process is not lost, calling on his next Personal Envoy to build on the progress made.
In this context, Guterres stressed, in the recommendations of his report, that he remains convinced that a solution to the Sahara issue is possible despite the pause in the political process since the resignation of Personal Envoy Horst Köhler.
The UN chief also reiterated the parameters of the search for a political solution to be realistic, pragmatic, sustainable and based on compromise, and this in accordance with resolutions 2440, 2468 and 2494 adopted by the Security Council respectively in October 2018, April 2019 and October 2019.
These Security Council resolutions confirmed Algeria’s role as the main party to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara, Algeria being cited five times in the last Council resolution, along with Morocco. They also defined the contours of the political solution, in that it must be realistic, pragmatic, sustainable and of compromise. This is the very embodiment of the autonomy initiative, the pre-eminence of which has been enshrined in all Security Council resolutions since 2007.
The Secretary General also recalled the fundamentals of the Moroccan position on the issue of Moroccan Sahara. To this end, Guterres devoted a passage from his report to the Royal speech of November 6, 2019, on the occasion of the 44th anniversary of the glorious Green March, indicating that His Majesty King Mohammed VI stressed that Morocco will continue to work honestly and in good faith to achieve a political, realistic, practical and consensual solution based exclusively on the political approach adopted by the United Nations Organization and the relevant Security Council resolutions”.
The UN top official also stressed that His Majesty the King “added that the Autonomy Initiative is the only way forward towards a settlement guaranteeing full respect for the Kingdom’s national unity and territorial integrity”.
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