The Polisario representative to the UN asks the Security Council to “assume its responsibility” over the Sahara

20 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The representative of the Polisario Front to the UN, Sidi Omar, asked this Thursday the United Nations Security Council to “assume its responsibility” and allow the Western Sahara mission (MINURSO) to correctly exercise its mandate on the basis of the “process of peace” of 1991.

In this sense, it has demanded that the United Nations and its agencies “assume their responsibilities” to ensure the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people and to be able to establish a “permanent and independent mechanism to monitor, protect and report on Human Rights” in the Sahara.

Omar has highlighted this need “taking into account that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has not been able to visit occupied Western Sahara for the seventh consecutive year due to the rejection of the occupying State of Morocco.”

Likewise, he added that the Polisario “categorically” rejects the “colonial fact”, for which reason it will continue to use “all legitimate means to defend the sacred rights of the Saharawi people and their national aspirations”.

The United Nations Security Council held closed-door consultations on Western Sahara the day before, attended by the envoy of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, and the head of the mission for the referendum in Western Sahara, Alexander Ivanko.

MINURSO was created in 1991 with the aim of supporting the preparations for a referendum in which the Saharawi people had to choose between independence and integration into Morocco, a hypothesis that Rabat has always ruled out, which only contemplates limited autonomy within the kingdom. alawi