Kiosk360. Ambassador Omar Hilale reframed Algerian representative Nadir Larbaoui when the latter insulted the intelligence of UN members by trying to gloss over his country’s involvement in the Sahara conflict. This article is a press review of the daily Al Ahdath.
The ambassador, permanent representative of Morocco to the UN, Omar Hilale misses no opportunity to pillory the Algerian ambassador Nadir Larbaoui whom he corners, each time, in his last entrenchments. This is what happened when the Algerian diplomat replied to a letter that Hilale had addressed to the Security Council on the activist-separatist, Sultana Khaya, known for her calls for violence in the southern provinces.
The daily Al Ahdath Al Maghribia reports, in its edition of Monday, June 27, that the Moroccan ambassador underlined that Nader Arbaoui’s letter “outrageously sins by its culpable silences, its questionable denials, its indecent denigration of the United Nations, and its fallacious allegations”.
A follower of violence, continues Omar Hilale, who underwent military training, was trained in combat techniques and the handling of weapons during his many trips to Algeria. The leaders of this country, he adds, push the hypocrisy so far as to transfer, each month, to the so-called Sultana Khaya the sum of 4300 euros to finance her separatist activities in the southern provinces. And the Moroccan diplomat underlined that Ambassador Larbaoui, like his country’s diplomacy, insults the intelligence of the international community. “The Algerian ambassador commits, in his missive, the unpardonable error by underestimating the intelligence of the members of the Security Council about the primary responsibility of his country in this regional dispute”, notes Hilale.
Al Ahdath Al Maghribia reports that the representative of Morocco at the UN has listed the events and facts which show that Algeria has been a party to this conflict since it was at the origin of its outbreak nearly half a year ago -century. He thus recalled the letter sent by the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the Secretary General of the United Nations the day after the signing of the Madrid Agreement, on November 19, 1975, in which he underlined “that in In addition to Spain in its capacity as an administrative power, the other parties concerned and interested in the Sahara affair are Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania”.
In addition to the creation of the Polisario armed group, its reception and its militarization on Algerian soil, Omar Hilale recalled the proposal that Bouteflika had made to the former personal envoy of the UN Secretary General, James Baker. It was during his visit to Houston (Texas), on November 2, 2001, when he suggested the partition of the Moroccan Sahara as a solution to this conflict. As proof, continues the Moroccan diplomat, in a report presented to the Security Council in 2002, the UN Secretary General had stressed that “Algeria and the Polisario are ready to study and negotiate the partition of the Sahara as a political solution to this conflict.
Since. Algerian diplomacy has not ceased to confirm by its deeds, its words and its gestures that it is a party to the conflict. “Is it not Algeria that has recalled its ambassador and suspended its friendship treaty with a third country (Spain, editor’s note) in retaliation for its support for the autonomy initiative in the Moroccan Sahara”, concludes Morocco’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilale.