MADRID 22 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The UN has avoided delving into the plan outlined last week by the special envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, on the potential partition of Western Sahara and has stated that, in any case “it will be up to the United Nations Security Council to evaluate how to continue moving forward” to try to resolve the current conflict.
A spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, to whom De Mistura’s office depends directly, has limited himself to recalling that the envoy already put the idea of partition on the table in his most recent meetings with the parties, mainly Morocco and the Polisario Front, and that both had “rejected” it.
In fact, both Polisario and the Moroccan Government have publicly reiterated this rejection in recent days. On Monday, the Moroccan Foreign Minister, Naser Burita, attacked an “overheated” proposal – it was already raised in 2002 by the then envoy, James Baker, and that “has been stillborn”, to the extent that Rabat only contemplates limited autonomy for the former Spanish colony.
The spokesperson also took the opportunity to remember that De Mistura also asked all parties to be open to new proposals to overcome the current stalemate. In the case of Morocco, the envoy called to “explain” the autonomy plan proposed in 2007 by King Mohamed VI.
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