The U.N. envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, proposed a partition of the Sahara territory between Morocco and the Polisario Front, according to remarks he told UNSC Wednesday and seen by Reuters.
The partition “could allow for the creation on the one hand of an independent state in the southern part, and on the other hand the integration of the rest of the Territory as part of Morocco, with its sovereignty over it internationally recognized,” he told the fifteen members of the Security Council behind closed doors on Wednesday.
Neither Morocco nor the Polisario Front accepted the proposal, de Mistura noted.
The diplomat urged the U.N. Secretary-General to reconsider the effectiveness of his role as an envoy if no progress is achieved within six months.
In the last couple of months,De Mistura ramped up his engagement with the involved parties, meeting with representatives from Morocco, Mauritania, the Polisario, and Algeria during the recent UN General Assembly in New York but has yet to facilitate negotiations between the parties.
A report he submitted to the UN council noted Morocco’s commitment to supporting UN efforts for a political solution based on the Moroccan Autonomy plan as a key development during the Secretary-General mandate, additionally highlighting the royal vision of the Atlantic coastline as a gateway connecting Africa and the Americas.
The U.N. Security Council has consistently called for a collaborative effort from both parties to reach a mutually acceptable political solution, describing Morocco’s autonomy plan as “serious and credible.”
The Security Council is expected to extend the MINURSO mandate for another year on October 30.
The UN envoy to the Moroccan Sahara, De Mistura, became a senile old man when he said that the Moroccan Sahara should be divided with the Polisario, which is a militia created by Algeria to suppress and imprison 40,000 Moroccan Sahrawis kidnapped by Algeria in 1976. There is no compromise on the Moroccan Sahara file. The Moroccan Sahara remains Moroccan according to international law or by the Moroccan popular resistance. We spent half a century fighting Algeria’s aggression and the intransigence of the Polisario militias, and today we are ready to sacrifice everything precious for another hundred years while we defend our territorial integrity from Tangier to Lagouira.