New York (UN), 14 April 2025 (SPS) – The United Nations Security Council held a closed-door meeting on Monday to discuss developments in the situation in Western Sahara, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1975.
The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Western Sahara and Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), Alexander Ivanko, along with the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy, Staffan de Mistura, provided briefings during the session.
The meeting was held in accordance with Resolution 2756, adopted by the Security Council on October 31, 2024, which extended MINURSO's mandate for an additional year.
It is worth recalling that the UN envoy, Staffan de Mistura, conducted a regional tour last week, engaging with both parties to the conflict—the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front—to discuss the current situation and future prospects of the UN-sponsored peace process in Africa's last colony.
As part of his trip, de Mistura also visited Mauritania and Algeria, two observer countries in the UN-led process.
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