Dakhla (Refugee Camps), December 21, 2015 (SPS) - The visit of the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon to Western Sahara will be another pressure element on Morocco to get it to cooperate with the United Nations (UN) concerning the Sahrawi cause,” said Monday, the representative of the Polisario Front at the UN, Ahmed Boukhari.
“The visit of the UN Secretary General to the region, scheduled in early January, will be the first of its kind as part of the efforts made by Ban Ki-moon to find a solution to the Sahrawi cause, intended as a decolonization issue,” said Boukhari in a statement to APS, on the sidelines of the 14th Polisario Front congress.
He said that Ban Ki-moon’s visit to the region is “another element added to the pressures exerted on Morocco to get it to cooperate with the United Nations, particularly after Morocco’s rejection of its proposal concerning the resumption of direct negotiations between the Polisario and the Kingdom of Morocco.”
For Boukhari, the UN Secretary General’s visit, which will offer a new opportunity for peace, will find the cooperation needed from the Polisario,” underlining that “if firm and effective pressures are not exerted on Morocco, we would have missed the goal of the UN secretary General’s visit,” he said.
Ban Ki-moon’s visit must include the Sahrawi people’s fight as a priority issue on the UN’s agenda particularly that of the Secretary General and the Security Council, he continued.
The Secretary General of the United Nations should present his report at the Security Council in April 2016. (SPS)
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