Algiers, 14 December 2020 (SPS) - Representative of the Polisario Front at the United Nations Sidi Mohamed Omar affirmed Saturday that the adoption by the UN General Assembly of a new resolution on Western Sahara is a hard blow for the Moroccan occupation and its attempts to distort the Sahrawi cause.
In a statement to APS, the Sahrawi diplomat said that the assertion by the UN General Assembly of the legal nature of the Sahrawi cause as a decolonization issue as well as UN’s responsibility vis-à-vis the Sahrawi people is a hard blow for the Moroccan occupier and its attempts to legally distort the cause.”
“The new resolution will strengthen the position announced by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on the legal status of Western Sahara as a decolonization issue that could be resolved only through the Sahrawi people themselves by exercising their unchanging right to self-determination,” he said.
UN General Assembly adopted without voting on Thursday a new decision on the Sahrawi issue during its 75th session in which it reiterated the legal status of Western Sahara as a decolonization issue.
Sidi Mohamed Omar underlined that the General Assembly’s resolution comes to reiterate the Sahrawi people’s unchanging right to self-determination and the independence in accordance with the principles contained in the UN Charter 1514 (D-15) but also to strengthen the position of the international organization vis-à-vis the Sahrawi cause which is a decolonization issue on the agenda of the 4th commission and the special committee in charge of studying the situation concerning the implementation of the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial peoples and countries. (SPS)
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