MADRID 3 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The UN special envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, met this Thursday in the refugee camps of Tindouf (Algeria) with senior officials of the Polisario Front, days after meeting in New York with the Foreign Minister of Morocco, Naser Burita.
The meeting was attended by, among other leaders, the Foreign Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Mohamed Sidati, and the Saharawi ambassador to the United Nations, Mohamed Omar, according to the Sahara Press Service agency. The Polisario Front has made it clear that, in its opinion, “the only solution” possible at first is for the Sahrawi people to be able to “determine their own destiny” with a self-determination referendum.
An option, that of the referendum, that Morocco does not contemplate. Rabat understands “autonomy, under Moroccan sovereignty, as the only and only solution to this regional dispute,” according to a statement released by the Moroccan mission to the UN after Burita’s meeting with De Mistura.
The Government of Morocco pointed out that it was the UN envoy who requested this meeting, also with a view to continuing its contacts with all the parties involved in a conflict that remains stagnant.
For his part, the Foreign Minister of Algeria, Ahmed Attaf, once again defended on Monday before the UN General Assembly the end of the “colonization” of Western Sahara and that the “legitimate” and “inalienable” rights of its population, something that it trusts will happen “sooner or later” and that passes, he has indicated, through self-determination.
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