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Rabat-UN Personal Envoy of the Secretary General, Christopher Ross, will brief this afternoon in a closed-door meeting, the members of the Security Council on the latest developments of the “mediation process” of the ‘Western Sahara’ issue.
The briefing comes six months after the adoption of Security Council resolution 2152, which extended the mandate of MINURSO for a year.
The resolution urged the parties and neighboring countries to fully cooperate with the UN body and with each other and get resolutely involved to put an end to the current deadlock and move forward towards a political solution.
It also called on the parties to continue to show political will and work in an atmosphere propitious for dialogue to engage in more substantive negotiations and ensure the implementation of its resolutions since 2007 as well as the success of the talk.
In recent months, Morocco has been calling on the United Nations show “neutrality” and “professionalism” in dealing with the conflict and abstain from siding with any party.
We ask that the UN Secretariat show professionalism and keep equal distance from all the parties,” Omar Hilale, Morocco’s permanent representative to the United Nations, said last April during a press conference following the adoption by the Security Council of Resolution 2152.
“In accordance with this parameter, and especially the legal parameters of negotiation, Morocco is willing to go further with the Secretariat and with all the partners,” said the Moroccan diplomat, reiterating Morocco’s trust in the UN Secretary General.
“The choice of Morocco to negotiate a mutually acceptable political solution is irreversible, and we will work on that in the months to come,” said Ambassador Hilale.
In a letter to the UNSG Ban Ki-moon on April 15, King Mohammed VI called for preserving the Personal Envoy’s mandate of mediation, promotion of political settlement and supervision with precise terms as well as Morocco’s contribution within the United Nations.”
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