The UN Security Council held on Wednesday closed-door consultations on the issue of the Moroccan Sahara.
According to diplomatic sources in New York, Security Council members were briefed by the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for the Sahara, Alexander Ivanko, as well as the Under-Secretary-General for Africa in the UN Secretariat’s Department of Political Affairs, Martha Pobee.
These consultations come in anticipation of the adoption, at the end of October, of a resolution extending the mandate of Minurso, the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the Sahara.
Guterres has recently appointed the Italian-Swedish Staffan de Mistura as his new personal envoy for the Moroccan Sahara.
The appointment of de Mistura, who is expected to begin his mandate in early November, came after the endorsement of the Security Council, which was officially seized by the UN Secretary-General.
Morocco had expressed its support for the appointment after being consulted by the UN Secretary-General several weeks ago, as did the other parties.
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