United Nations’ Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Staffan De Mistura conducted an interview with the UN Radio shedding light on his experience in the Sahara as his latest of duties.
The Western Sahara conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic/Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco.
Staffan de Mistura has dedicated his career to making a difference in areas of conflict. Now the Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, he spent a large part of his 48-year career at the UN striving for an end to some of the most intractable conflicts of modern times.
“I have no regrets. I would have never chosen another type of job. I think you can make a difference even in the worst-case scenario, always.” De Mistura describes.
According to De Mistura, the diplomat’s duty in the Sahara is to facilitate any avenue, for people affected by the conflict to be in a better condition, and secondly for the actual issue to be resolved in a way that is just and according to UN resolutions, where he believes the Sahara conflict to have formulas of resolution.
De Mistura recalls meeting two women in camps of Tindouf in Algeria, who described being teenagers when the conflict started, and being grandmothers now, wishing for a solution that could provide their own children a future.
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