Polisario Front Representative Condemns Morocco’s Attempt to Mislead UN Member States

The representative of the Polisario Front at the United Nations and coordinator with the MINURSO mission, Sidi Mohamed Omar, condemned the desperate attempt by the Moroccan occupation’s representative to mislead member states of the UN by distorting the content of Security Council Resolution 2797, which was adopted on October 31st.

In a letter to Slovenia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, in his capacity as current President of the Security Council, the Sahrawi diplomat said that “a representative of the Moroccan occupation, in a desperate attempt to mislead member states, distorted the content of Security Council Resolution 2797 concerning the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), during the high-level plenary meeting recently convened by the General Assembly to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.” He further emphasized his commitment to revealing the truth and setting the record straight, proving that Morocco’s sovereignty claims and expansionist proposal are completely false and misleading. He stressed that the latest Security Council resolution grants no recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, a point that several member states explicitly made clear in their voting statements.

The Polisario Front’s representative reaffirmed that this resolution cannot override the core principles of the United Nations Charter or contradict the established positions of the relevant United Nations bodies, particularly the General Assembly and the International Court of Justice.

He underlined that since Western Sahara was placed on the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories in 1963, the General Assembly and its subsidiary bodies have persistently treated it as a matter of decolonization pursuant to Chapter XI of the Charter, upholding the inalienable right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence as stipulated in General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) and other pertinent resolutions.

In this regard, he referred to the Advisory Opinion on Western Sahara, delivered on 16 October 1975, in which the International Court of Justice found that no “ties of territorial sovereignty between Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco” existed.

The Court also confirmed that General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) applies to Western Sahara’s decolonization process, which requires the free and authentic expression of the will of the people of the territory.

The Sahrawi diplomat argued that Morocco’s expansionist “proposal” can never serve as a “basis,” much less “the sole basis,” for a just and lasting solution to Western Sahara’s decolonization in line with the UN Charter and the Sahrawi people’s inalienable right to self-determination.