Algeria, committed to defending just causes around the world, has taken full advantage of its term as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council to speak out loud and clear on behalf of the Sahrawi people, fiercely and tirelessly defending the inalienable right of the oppressed people to self-determination and independence.
Despite the Makhzen regime’s desperate attempts to tout supposed diplomatic victories regarding Western Sahara’s legal status, meant primarily to mask its countless domestic failures, and despite some foreign powers reversing their positions for base economic interests and political deals, Algeria has remained true to its principles and steadfast in its unwavering support for the Sahrawi people.
Through its diplomacy, Algeria has exerted all its influence over the past two years, on the instructions of the President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and under the leadership of its Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, and its Permanent Representative to the Security Council, Ambassador Amar Bendjama, to put the Sahrawi cause in the spotlight in order to prevent it from being stripped of all its substance.
Working alongside several other countries, Algeria successfully secured crucial amendments to Resolution 2797 of October 31, 2025, which renewed MINURSO’s mandate (the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara).
The amendments reaffirmed the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination and achieved a more balanced text, despite Moroccan pressure to eliminate the issue altogether.
Algeria transformed an initial draft resolution that favored Morocco’s so-called autonomy plan into a text more aligned with international law, emphasizing the legitimacy of a self-determination referendum in accordance with the UN Charter and international law, while ensuring the text did not undermine previous Security Council resolutions that form the legal basis for a just and lasting solution.
In this regard, the Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Community Abroad and African Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, said in a press conference on November 18 in Algiers, that the Security Council had not adopted Morocco’s position on the issue of Western Sahara, stressing that the file “is not closed” and remains before the United Nations at the level of the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24) .
“The resolution adopted by the Security Council preserved, in its content, all the fundamentals of the solution to the Western Sahara issue, without affecting any of its interdependent and complementary elements,” the Minister of State said.
Through its firm stances, fully consistent with the foundational principles of its foreign policy, Algeria has once again demonstrated during its two-year term as a non-permanent UN Security Council member its steadfast commitment to championing just causes worldwide, particularly the Palestinian and Sahrawi struggles in international forums.
