Mauritania boycotts a Polisario conference in Geneva

Mauritania declined an invitation from the Polisario to a conference titled «From occupation to self-determination: a comparison between Western Sahara and Palestine», reveals a media outlet in Nouakchott. The meeting, organized on September 10 in Geneva on the sidelines of the 57th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, notably saw the presence of the ambassadors of South Africa and Namibia.

Mauritanian parties had already ignored, on June 6, an invitation from the Polisario to a conference organized in the Lebanese capital, then titled «From Western Sahara to Palestine, the genocide continues», according to the same source.

Under the presidency of Mohamed Cheikh Ould El Ghazouani, Mauritania, a country recognizing the «SADR» since 1984, aims to maintain its relations with Morocco. As a reminder, Mauritania had skipped a meeting of the Defense Committee of the North African region (NARC, according to its English acronym), under the African Union, held in Algiers in November 2023, which saw the participation of the Polisario.