Moroccan Sahara: Morocco welcomes UN Security Council’s adoption of decision 2756 (MOFA) –
On October 31, 2024, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2756, extending the mandate of MINURSO till October 31, 2025, and urging all involved events to achieve a remaining resolution over the Sahara challenge.
The Resolution 2756 was adopted by the Security Council with 12 votes in favor, 2 abstentions, and Algeria’s non-participation.
One of the highlights throughout the vote was the UN Security Council’s rejection of amendments proposed by Algeria to the draft decision.
In a press release revealed by the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Kingdom has welcomed the adoption of thisResolution (2756), which is available in a context marked by the irreversible trajectory set by His Majesty Mohammed VI,King of Morocco, on the difficulty of the Kingdom’s territorial integrity, by the rising help of everlasting Security Council members and influential international locations for Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara and the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative, and the continued withdrawal of recognition of the pseudo “sadr.”
This decision adopted on thirty first October 2024, preserves all Morocco’s achievements, whereas introducing new importantelements for the difficulty’s future growth inside the United Nations.
In truth, the brand new textual content enshrines the framework, the events and the purpose of the political course of. As such, the Council re-established that roundtable talks are the one framework for a political resolution to the regional battle over the Moroccan Sahara.
Moreover, the decision clearly identifies the events to the dispute, notably Algeria, which is talked about within the decision as many occasions as Morocco. Similarly, the Security Council reaffirms that the political resolution can solely be reasonable, pragmatic, lasting and based mostly on compromise, cardinal components of the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative, whose pre-eminence has been reaffirmed.
The decision 2756 additionally enshrines two necessary developments that bolster the Kingdom’s place: In the primary addition, the Council “welcomed the recent momentum and urged for building on it.”
As a consequence, the Council endorses the worldwide momentum on the Moroccan Sahara challenge beneath the impetus of HM the King, Mohammed VI, in favor of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Sahara and the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative, noting that any further, UN motion can solely be a part of this momentum.
In the second addition, the Security Council referred to as the opposite events “to avoid acts which could compromise the political process,” noting that the Council thus echoes the Kingdom’s clear official place, stressing that there may be no political course of with out respect for the ceasefire.
Algeria’s non-participation within the vote on the resolutiondemonstrates the isolation of this nation’s place inside the Security Council and the worldwide group usually. It additionally blatantly reveals its contradictions: it claims to defend worldwide legality, Security Council resolutions and UN efforts, whereas refusing to help these similar efforts on this challenge and clinging to an obstructionist logic.
Algeria has been remoted inside the Security Council, even by its closest allies who abstained. It is remoted in Africa, Europe, and the world over, confirming the decline and decay of its outdated theses.
During the adoption of the decision, a number of Council members reiterated their help for the Moroccan Autonomy Initiative, praising the momentum the Moroccan Sahara challenge has gained lately on the UN and on the bottom, thusemphasizing the necessity to strengthen it.
A robust and clear message was despatched to Algeria, which was vehement in its criticisms throughout the debate and suffered a painful historic failure with the rejection of its biased amendments on human rights.
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