The representation of the Polisario Front at the United Nations affirmed, on Tuesday evening, that a convoy of the United Nations Mission for the Organization of a Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) had succeeded in gaining access to the liberated Saharawi territories, for the first times since the resumption, two years ago, of the war in Western Sahara, within the framework of “a gesture of goodwill” for the resupply of the sites of the UN mission, announced by the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) last March.
The President of the Saharawi Republic, Brahim Ghali, also SG of the Polisario Front, had recalled, in a message addressed to the SG of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, dated March 29, 2023, the efforts that the Polisario Front has had ceases to deploy to ensure the safety and integrity of MINURSO military observers who are in the liberated territories, and to facilitate the mission’s task despite the violation by the Moroccan occupier of the 1991 ceasefire since November 13, 2020.
With this in mind, the President of the SADR announced, as a “goodwill gesture” to help MINURSO to meet the logistical challenges it is facing, that the Polisario Front “will ensure safe passage, on an exceptional and temporary basis , for a logistics convoy to supply the sites of the UN mission in the liberated Saharawi territories”.
In this context, a land convoy of Minurso ensured from April 5 to 7 a resupply of the mission sites in Tifariti and Mehiriz.
The convoy was escorted by units of the Sahrawi Popular Liberation Army.
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