[Curiosities] UN Western Sahara Envoy Reports Consultation Results to UN Security General

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Earlier this week, the UN envoy held informal consultations with all parties involved in the Western Sahara dispute.

Rabat - The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres received on Thursday evening his personal envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, to discuss the results of the “informal and bilateral consultation” that de Mistura held earlier this week, says a readout of the meeting from the UN Department of Political & Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA).

During their meeting, held behind closed doors for about thirty minutes, De Mistura informed Guterres of the “informal and bilateral consultations” he had with representatives of all parties involved in the Sahara conflict, converging media reports have quoted the DPPA statement as noting. 

The UN envoy invited representatives of Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria, and Mauritania, as well as members as well as France, the Russian Federation, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, for informal bilateral consultations with him, prior to the presentation of his semi-annual briefing to the Security Council.

On Monday, De Mistura called upon all parties to the Sahar dispute to participate in “informal bilateral” consultations prior to the Security Council briefing set for April.

According to a statement from UN Secretary-General spokesperson Stephane Dujarric, the consultation meetings aim to deepen the examination of positions in the search for a mutually acceptable framework to boost the UN-led political process.  

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Echoing all the latest UN resolutions, the UN Secretary-General has urged all parties to engage in the informal consultations as an indication of their commitment to the UN-led political process and any potential talks aiming to relaunch dialogue.

In October of last year, the latest UN resolution for Western Sahara emphatically spoke of the t Security Council “strongly” encouraging “Morocco, the Frente POLISARIO, Algeria, and Mauritania to engage with the Personal Envoy through the duration of this process, in a spirit of realism and compromise to ensure a successful outcome.”

With Algeria appearing to yet again shirk its responsibility in the territorial dispute, the UN’s repeated calls on all parties come as both a reminder of the centrality of the UN-led process and a setback for the Algerian regime’s apparent determination to undermine UN mediation efforts in order to rehabilitate the sidelined referendum option.

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