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Algeria has sent a substantial parliamentary delegation to champion the Polisario's stance during the sessions of the UN's Sixth Committee, which focuses on special political issues and decolonization.
In this effort, seven members of the Council of the Nation, the upper chamber of the Algerian Parliament, have traveled to New York. They collectively called for the «right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence». Prior to their departure for the United States, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the upper house convened a coordination meeting with Algerian diplomats the previous week, aiming to synchronize the parliamentarians' contributions with Algiers' official position on this matter.
This year, the discussion of the Western Sahara issue at the Sixth Committee was marked by a significant number of petitioners from both Morocco and Algeria eager to present their views.
However, the Algerian delegation did not have the chance to engage directly with their Moroccan counterparts. The Moroccan parliamentarians had departed New York to attend the opening of the new parliamentary session by King Mohammed VI on October 10.
It's important to remember that Morocco was the first to request the UN to address the Sahara issue on the agenda of the Fourth Committee. In May 1962, Tangier hosted the inaugural session of the Committee of 24 outside the UN headquarters in New York, long before Algeria's independence on July 5, 1962, and the formation of the Polisario in 1972 in Libya. This meeting resulted in the inclusion, at the kingdom's request, of the «Spanish Sahara» and Sidi Ifni on the UN's C24 agenda.
