New York (United Nations) 03 November 2020 (SPS)- The Permanent Representative of Zimbabwe to the UN, H.E. Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava, called on the UN Security Council “to end the illegal occupation of Western Sahara” by Morocco, in his country’s statement before the UN 75th General Assembly’s Fourth Committee on decolonisation.
New York (United Nations) 03 November 2020 (SPS)- Namibia Permanent Representative to the UN, H.E. Mr. Neville Gertze, stressed in the statement of his country Today before the UN Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (4th Committee), that Namibia stresses the urgency of the implementation of the OAU-UN Settlement Plan, agreed upon by the two parties in 1991 to resolve the conflict in Western Sahara.
Moscow, 2 November 2020 (SPS) - The Russian Federation has reiterated that a just, lasting settlement in Western Sahara can only be reached politically on the basis of the relevant UN Security Council resolutions.
Berlin, 2 November 2020 (SPS) - German Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth expressed the German government's regret over the status quo marking the conflict in Western Sahara.
Answering a question of Heik Hansel, a member of the Bundestag from the radical left party "Die Linke" on the Sahrawi conflict, Michael Roth said that the vacancy of the post of the UN Special Envoy for Western Sahara undermines the universally recognized successes of former special envoy, German Horst Koehler.
Algiers, 2 November 2020 (SPS) - The members of the Algerian National Committee for Solidarity with the Saharawi People (CNASPS) noted, with a "deep disappointment, the lack of will on the part of the UN Security Council" to find, in a concrete and urgent way, a just, equitable solution, in line with the international law, to Western Sahara conflict, and to quickly activate the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) in terms of the organization of a referendum on self-determination, the committee said Monday in a statement.
New York (United Nations) 31 October 2020 (SPS)- South Africa called on the UN Security Council, in its explanation of vote during the discussion last Thursday of a new resolution on Western Sahara, to conduct a visit to the occupied territories of Western Sahara, in order to break the current impasse in the conflict.
New York (United Nations) 31 October 2020 (SPS)- South Africa criticized Security Council methods of work when it comes to adopting resolutions on Western Sahara, considering the process undemocratic and accusing the so-called “group of friends of Western Sahara” of imposing draft resolutions and rejecting member states inputs.
New York (United Nations) 31 October 2020 (SPS)- The Russian Federation stressed in its explanation of vote Thursday in participation to the discussion of a new resolution by the Security Council on Western Sahara, that Russia abstained from voting Friday labeling the text as biased and partial.
Russia stressed that “in recent years, resolutions on renewal of MINURSO mandate received amendments that, in our view, affect Security Council’s unbiased and impartial approach to the issue of Western Sahara.”
New York (United Nations) 30 October 2020 (SPS)- In a statement to the media after the Security Council adopted its new resolution on the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Dr.
Bir Lehlou (Saharawi Republic) 30 October 2020 (SPS)- Frente Polisario issued a Press release commenting on the adoption by the UN Security Council of a new resolution on Western Sahara Today, stressing that the Front will intensify national liberation struggle in face of the UN inaction to ensure MINURSO implementation of its mandate consisted in the organization of a self-determination referendum.
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PRESS RELEASE
Moscow, Oct29, 2020 (SPS) - The International Coordination of the Moscow Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Russia reiterated, on Tuesday, its support for the inalienable right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination and independence.
In a message addressed to the representative of the Frente POLISARIO to the Russian Federation, the Coordination Committee affirmed its "solidarity with the Saharawi people in their struggle to obtain their right to freedom, independence and a decent life in their country."
Occupied Aaiun (Sahrawi Republic) Oct 29, 2020 (SPS) - The president of the Sahrawi Instance against the Moroccan occupation (ISACOM), Aminetu Haidar sent a message of solidarity to the Sahrawi protesters in Guergarat, asking In this sense, the United Nations to monitor the various Moroccan violations in the occupied areas, instead of putting pressure on the Sahrawi people who reject the systematic looting of their natural resources.
Chahid El Hafed, Oct 28, 2020 (SPS) - The Minister of Information, spokesperson for the government, Mr. Hamada Salma, has reaffirmed that the stage requires comprehensive preparation in light of the failure of the United Nations to implement the UN settlement plan and the intransigence of the Moroccan regime on international legitimacy.
Brussels (Belgium) Oct 27, 2020 (SPS) -The Task Force of the Coordination of the European Committees in Support with the Sahrawi People (ECOCO) expressed its solidarity with the protesting Sahrawi civilians who, since last October 19, established a protest camp in Guerguerat, after a series of peaceful demonstrations along the Moroccan Wall of Shame.
Madrid, Oct 27, 2020 (SPS) - The representative of the Frente POLISARIO in Spain, Abdulah Arabi, regretted the failure of successive Spanish governments to assume the political and legal responsibilities as the former colonial power of Western Sahara, calling for "courage" to solve the current deadlock.
Shaheed Al Hafed, 26 October 2020 (SPS) - The Permanent Office of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front has reaffirmed that the main mission of MINURSO remains to organize a referendum to determine the future of the Sahrawi people in accordance with the United Nations-African Union settlement plan of 1991.
New York (United Nations) 25 October 2020 (SPS)- The Representative if the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia affirmed in the statement of his country before the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly Fourth Committee on Friday that Ethiopia supports self-determination and independence of Western Sahara within the framework of resolution 1514.
Bir-Lahlou (Sahrawi Republic), 25 October 2020 (SPS) - The Sahrawi government condemned Saturday the Moroccan occupation authorities' opening of what they call new “consulates” for three African countries in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
London, 24 October 2020 (SPS) - Amnesty International (AI) has stressed that effective human rights monitoring must be a central component of any future UN peacekeeping presence in Western Sahara.
New York (UN), 24 October 2020 (SPS) - The Republic of Uganda has stressed the continued urgency of achieving a just peaceful and lasting solution to the question of Western Sahara that provides ultimately for the inalienable rights of the Sahrawi people to self-determination in conformity with relevant General Assembly resolutions.