Algeria Is Ready To Cooperate With Horst Kohler To Settle The Western Sahara Issue

Algeria welcomed the offer that was made by the UN General Secretary’s Special Representative for Western Sahara, Horst Kohler, during his recent visit to the region, in which he called for the stalled negotiations between the Polisario and Morocco since 2012.

Algeria welcomed the offer that was made by Horst Kohler, and the spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Abdelaziz Ben Ali Sharif – as reported by APS on Friday – said that this offer was received with satisfaction by all members of the Security Council, recalling in the context Algeria’s support for the efforts of the United Nations and Mr. Kohler as the Personal Envoy of the General Secretary of the United Nations for Western Sahara.

Ben Ali Sharif also expressed his country’s readiness to cooperate as it has always done with the United Nations to settle the issue of Western Sahara in accordance with the international law and the Security Council’s strict rules that guarantee the Saharawi people exercise of their right to self-determination.

The statement comes at the time when the UN envoy for Western Sahara held a meeting last Wednesday at the Security Council on his recent regional tour that aimed at resuming negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco, which has been suspended since 2012.

The former German President is expected to inform the UN Security Council of his latest activities in the framework of the UN framework, as indicated by the Security Council’s agenda for the month of August.

This is the second meeting of Horst Kohler since his appointment as Personal Envoy of the UN General Secretary for Western Sahara, and it also comes less than two months after his visit to the region, where he held talks with the parties to the conflict, which are the Polisario Front and Morocco, and the observer countries, Mauritania and Algeria.