The United Nations Security Council will hold a crucial meeting today, with member states gathering to receive a much-anticipated briefing by Staffan de Mistura, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara and head of the MINURSO mission.
The briefing will focus on the Sahara conflict and will seek to compel concerned parties, including Algeria, to sit at the negotiating table.
As the Polisario Front continues to publish reports claiming over 800 attacks on Moroccan bases, de Mistura’s briefing will take on even greater significance.
This will be the first briefing by the Special Envoy this year, as he has been unable to make progress towards finding a solution acceptable to both parties or force Algeria to participate in negotiations with the Polisario and Mauritania.
Meanwhile, Morocco has maintained its position of strength, bolstered by the recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara by influential countries.
Security Council resolutions have also supported Morocco’s autonomy proposal presented in 2007 as the most appropriate solution for the conflict.
Abdelnabi Sabri, a professor of international relations at the Faculty of Law Agdal in Rabat, emphasized to Hespress the geo-strategic considerations behind Security Council resolutions.
He said that they “give legitimacy to the autonomy proposal that Morocco presented in 2007.”
This viewpoint has been shared by the United States of America, which is reportedly preparing a draft of the UN resolution on the Moroccan Sahara, expected to support the Moroccan thesis and the autonomy proposal.
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