Washington, April 11, 2014 (SPS) - The Western Saharan issue could enter a “decisive phase” at the United Nations Security Council in 2015, the representative of the Polisario Front in the UN, Mr. Boukhari Ahmed, told APS on Friday, in reaction to the new report of UN secretary general on the Saharawi issue.
In this report that he will present next Thursday to the Security Council, UN chief said that the Council is expected to hold a meeting in October 2014 for a first assessment of the step undertaken by the United Nations Secretary General Special envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, as part of the negotiation process based on bilateral consultations and shuttle diplomacy, as he invited the two sides to the conflict to “seriously” take on two fundamental issues which are “the content of the political solution and the form of self-determination” for the Sahrawi issue.
But if there is no progress before April 2015, Ban Ki-moon suggested that the Security Council’s members should then undertake a total review of the negotiation process between the Polisario Front and Morocco.
According to the Saharawi diplomat, it means that “the Security Council will assume a heavy responsibility, whether to move forward and definitely solve the Sahrawi issue, Africa’s last colony, or throw in the towel and consequently open the doors to the unknown in a region which needs peace, stability and certainty for its future.”
“Ban ki-moon said explicitly that he can then engage the Security Council to review the negotiation framework that this UN decision-making body defined in 2007 through its resolution 1754,” said the Sahrawi official. (SPS)
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