The actions of the Polisario in recent days are a concern. During an interview with the Hespress.com website, the United States Ambassador to Rabat, David T. Fischer, called on the armed group to "not obstruct regular civil and commercial traffic, through the Guerguerat border crossing".
The UN Secretary-General has once again demanded the departure of the Polisario and the liberation of the buffer zone of Guerguerat .
The ambassador, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN, Omar Hilale, rejected the allegations of the Algerian representative on the Moroccan Sahara. His intervention came during the virtual ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), held on Friday and whose theme is: "65 years after Bandung".
Morocco and the United Nations proceeded on Tuesday to the signing via videoconference of an agreement for the installation in the kingdom, of the UNOCT Programme Office for Counter-Terrorism and Training in Africa.
The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, is seeking a sustainable solution for a resolution of the Sahara issue. Based on his latest report to the Security Council on the Moroccan Sahara, made public last Friday, the UN chief recalled the important elements of the recommended solution to resolve this regional dispute, which is over forty years old.
The Polisario Front has just denounced "the escalation strategy of the Moroccan occupation" and calls on the Security Council to react.
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, ordered the Polisario separatists on Saturday to end their maneuvers aimed at preventing civilian and commercial traffic in the Guerguerat buffer zone. Several reliable sources have reported on the movement of the Polisario and its relays in the region.
Between Friday evening and Saturday, September 26, several Mauritanian media reported that the Polisario plans to settle in the buffer zone between Morocco and Mauritania. Bad news for commercial traffic in the region, which could experience many inconveniences in the event of a blockage of the border crossing.
During the 75th UN General Assembly, the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchez, reaffirmed his country’s call for a political solution based on compromise to the Moroccan Sahara issue.
The Covid-19 pandemic has not only challenged the health system in all countries of the world, but it has also aggravated some disparities such as gender inequalities. On Monday, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, expressed concern about the scale the phenomenon has taken in the past six months.
The wealth of billionaires in the Middle East and North Africa has increased in these times of Covid-19. This is indicated in a report by Oxfam entitled "A Decade of Hope, Not Austerity, in the Middle East and North Africa" by the NGO Oxfam.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), Antonio Guterres, congratulated Morocco and other countries that presented their voluntary national review on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) this year despite the Covid-19 pandemic. A presentation made during the UN High-Level Political Forum held virtually in New York.