Polisario Front urges UN to take on its responsibilities over Western Sahara

In the wake of the Moroccan King's latest statement on the vexed Western Sahara issue, the Polisario Front called Friday on the Security Council and the Secretary General of the United Nations to assume their responsibilities in the face of “the Moroccan authorities' headlong evasion”.

• The Polisario Front also urged the Security Council and the UN Secretary General “to pursue the series of negotiations aimed at ensuring the implementation of UN decisions on the long-standing Western Sahara issue.
• The Front further underlined that it would not remain idle in the face of the Moroccan authorities’ obstinacy in seeking to impose a fait-accompli in the colonization of Western Sahara under the cover of what they called “autonomy”, as it put it.
• The Polisario Front reaffirmed its commitment to engaging in serious negotiations with the Moroccan side while preserving the rights of the Sahraoui people in compliance with UN resolutions and international legality.
• In his statement, the Moroccan Monarch held Algeria accountable for the stalled dialogue underway for a solution to the Western Sahara problem and for refusing to reopen the border with his country.
• Algeria has always declared that it stood by International legality and that the Western Sahara issue, which is a decolonization problem, should be settled through direct negotiations between the 2 parties at issue namely Morocco and the Polisario Front in conformity with the relevant UN resolutions guaranteeing the Sahraoui people’s right to self – determination.
• With regard to the border issue, Algeria says it is not loathe to a reopening of the border with Morocco but stresses that such a file, to be sealed, should be addressed in a global contest with the settlement of all pending questions linked to the promotion of relations of good neighbourliness between Algeria and Morocco.