Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara is expected to give the Security Council a briefing in April on progress he’s made on question of the Western Sahara, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesman for the Secretary-General said on Thursday.
“Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara is continuing his engagement with all concerned to progress towards a just, realistically sustainable and mutually agreeable solution to the question of the Western Sahara in line with relevant Security Council resolutions, and with a view to his upcoming briefing to the Council in April,” Dujarric said in a press briefing.
The Spokesman added that de Mistura will be attending the Munich Security Conference, “where he is planning to conduct further consultations in this regard on the margins of the event in Munich.”
The Munich Security Conference will bring together representatives from 96 countries and aims to analyse and propose solutions to the main defence and security challenges of this year.
Mistura has since made several trips to the region, but in his recently published annual report Guterres said he was “deeply concerned about the evolution of the situation”.
The kingdom sees the Western Sahara as its own southern provinces, a region it controlled before colonial Spain seized it.
The Polisario Front is calling for a referendum on self-determination, which had been planned when a ceasefire was signed in 1991 but never implemented. That ceasefire was shattered in November 2020 by Polisario.
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