New York (United Nations), 15 April 2024 - The representative of the Polisario Front to the UN and Coordinator with MINURSO, Mohamed Sidi Omar, held talks on Monday at the United Nations headquarters with the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura.
The meeting, which took place on the eve of the Security Council consultation on the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), focused on the reality and future of the peace process sponsored by the United Nations in Western Sahara.
Mr. Sidi Mohamed Omar explained in detail the position of the Polisario Front in this regard and emphasized that the exercise of the Sahrawi people's inalienable right to self-determination is the only path to a peaceful, just, and lasting solution to the decolonization of Western Sahara.
The representative of the Polisario Front further reaffirmed that the settlement plan of the African Union (AU) and the United Nations, accepted by the two conflicting parties, the Polisario Front and Morocco, in August 1988, and unanimously approved by the Security Council in resolutions 658 (1990) and 690 (1991), remains the realistic, reasonable, and consensus-based solution to the question of decolonizing Western Sahara.
In this context, he called on the UN Security Council to take concrete measures to enable MINURSO to fully implement its mandate as specified in the UN and AU settlement plan.
Mr. Sidi Mohamed Omar also reiterated the Sahrawi party's willingness to continue working with the United Nations and the African Union in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and lasting solution to the conflict between the Sahrawi Republic and the Kingdom of Morocco in accordance with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and the Constitutive Act of the AU.
Finally, the Sahrawi party reaffirmed the strong and unwavering determination of the Sahrawi people to continue their struggle through all legitimate means, including armed struggle, until they can achieve their non-negotiable objectives of freedom, independence, and sovereignty over the entire Sahrawi territory.
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