2023-09-24 07:47:38
On January 1, 2024, Algeria will officially accede to the Security Council. A few months before this deadline, Algiers is trying to mobilize the other new non-permanent members of the UN executive body to defend the Polisario’s theses. To this end, Ahmed Attaf held a meeting last night in New York on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, with his counterparts from South Korea, Slovenia, Sierra Leone and Guyana, indicates the ministry Algerian Foreign Affairs in a press release.
With the objective of “coordinating” the positions of these States in the Security Council and not falling under the influence of the “logic of polarization” on certain issues, “the head of Algeria’s diplomacy pleaded for direct negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario, before representatives of countries having, on the whole, positions far removed from those adopted by the Front and Algeria,” underlines a source close to the matter in statements to Yabiladi.
Indeed, South Korea, Slovenia and Guyana are defending a mutually acceptable political solution to the Sahara question, while Sierra Leone recognizes the Moroccan nature of Western Sahara and even opened a consulate general in Dakhla in August 2021. Its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Timothy Musa Kabba, reiterated, on September 6 in Rabat, his country’s “relentless support” for the territorial integrity of the kingdom.
“Algeria is working with certain capitals so that the next Security Council resolutions on the Sahara issue insist only on the resumption of direct negotiations between Rabat and the Front,” adds our source.
In its resolution 2654, adopted on October 27, 2022, the Security Council “welcomed the momentum generated by the first round table held on 5 and 6 December 2018 and the second round table held on 21 and 22 March 2019, and the fact that Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria and Mauritania are engaged, in a serious and respectful manner, in the political process initiated by the United Nations on Western Sahara in order to find common ground. As a reminder, this resolution was rejected by Algeria.
In December 2021, Algerian diplomacy attempted to influence several African non-permanent member states of the Security Council during the Oran meeting.
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