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Join on Telegram Rabat – Morocco’s permanent representative at the UN Omar Hilale expressed satisfaction with Resolution 2703 on Western Sahara adopted on Monday by the UN Security Council.
On Monday, Hilale reiterated Morocco’s satisfaction, expressing gratitude to the US who were the penholders of the resolution.
“I would like to express our sincere gratitude to the United States for their role in drafting and negotiating this resolution. Our thanks also go to other members of the council for their constructive contributions and their vote in favor of this resolution,” Hilale said.
The Moroccan representative emphasized that the resolution also reinforces King Mohammed VI’s vision, endorsing peaceful settlement of disputes.
“The new Security Council resolution solidifies what I would call the seven fundamentals for resolving this issue,” he said, emphasizing that the text reaffirms the significance of the Moroccan autonomy initiative as the only serious and credible solution to address the Western Sahara dispute.
He stressed that with the vote for the new resolution, the council joins not only Morocco but “also hundreds of countries around the world that support this initiative, in full respect of national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
He said that the council has also reaffirmed that a solution to the dispute should be based on a realistic, political, pragmatic, and sustainable basis.
Recalling Algeria’s position challenging Morocco’s territorial integrity, Hilale said that the resolution also points out to the primary responsibility of the Algerian regime as a main party to the dispute.
He emphasized that despite Algeria’s reluctance and objections to Morocco’s efforts, the new resolution marks “the 28th death certificate for the referendum, which has been dead and buried for two decades.”
A referendum has been sought after by the Polisario Front and the Algerian regime which has supported it for decades.
Since 2001, none of the 34 Security Council resolutions have mentioned the referendum.
Instead, the resolutions have been opting for a political, realistic, pragmatic, and compromise-based solution to the dispute over the Sahara
