The United Nations Security Council is due to hold a session Wednesday evening to discuss a draft resolution submitted by the United States on the situation in Western Sahara. The meeting is held amid a special situation characterized by rising tensions in the Guerguerat region, which has been the scene…

Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sabri Boukadoum, on Monday met with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and discussed international issues, including the situation in Western Sahara. The Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs stressed on the occasion the urgent need for the United Nations to take action that responds to the legitimate…

The Permanent Office of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front has expressed its astonishment at the leakage of the Moroccan occupier’s fallacies into the discourse and letter of the United Nations, leading it to a dangerous direction that transforms MINURSO from a peace-keeping force that performs a noble mission…

The Republic of Uganda has stressed the continued urgency of achieving a just peaceful and lasting solution to the question of Western Sahara that provides ultimately for the inalienable rights of the Sahrawi people to self-determination in conformity with relevant General Assembly resolutions. In a statement By H.E. Philip Odida,…

The Kingdom of Lesotho has reiterated its support to inalienable right to self-determination and independence of the people of Western Sahara in line with the relevant United Nations resolutions. In a statement before the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee), on Friday in New York, the delegation of…

Cuba has reaffirmed support for the right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination based on respect for the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter, International Law and relevant UN resolutions. In its intervention before the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee), on Thursday in…

Addressing the 6th Plenary Meeting of the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee), on Thursday in New York, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Permanent Representative of Belize to the United Nations, H.E. Ms. Lois M. Young, urged this Committee, the C-24, the Security Council and the Secretary-General to put…

The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste has reiterated its commitment to assist and contribute to the realization of the rights of the Saharawi people to fully independent state and sovereignty over their natural resources. Speaking before the 4th Committee of the United Nations General Assembly on the question of decolonization and…

Amnesty International (AI) has stressed that effective human rights monitoring must be a central component of any future UN peacekeeping presence in Western Sahara. In a statement issued Thursday, AI underlined that on 28 October, the UN Security Council is due to vote on the renewal of the mandate of…

The Polisario Front confirmed on Wednesday that all companies and countries involved in the illegal exploitation of the natural resources of Western Sahara will be legally pursued before international courts. In a letter to German company Köster Marine Protein, the Polisario Front reiterated the legal status of Western Sahara, as…