Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Aug 5, 2014 (SPS) - The United Nations special envoy to Western Sahara Christopher Ross plans to visit the region before the holding of the UN General Assembly next September.
The UN envoy “continues his mission, defined and approved by the Security Council in its resolution 2152 adopted last April with the aim to relaunch the political settlement process through negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco in order to come to a solution guaranteeing self-determination right to the Sahrawi people.”
According to sources close to Ross, the recent rumours on the resignation of the UN Special envoy are groundless, adding that the “Moroccan regime refuses to comply with international law by ignoring the resolutions and recommendations of the Security Council, the General Assembly and the African Union.”
Morocco “is isolated on the international scene” and finds itself in “an embarrassing situation because of its non-respect of the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination and the willingness of the international community, its continuous human rights abuse in Western Sahara and its policy of plundering of natural resources of a territory that remains under the responsibility of the UN and that is still not decolonized,” said the source. (SPS)
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