Meeting in New York as part of a session of the United Nations Committee of 24, Morocco and Algeria once again defended their respective positions on the Sahara issue. But unlike the usual verbal clashes, the exchanges remained restrained, against a backdrop of efforts by President Donald Trump’s administration to revive the political process.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister Delegate in charge of the National Defense Administration, and the Inspector General of the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) have held a series of meetings in recent weeks with U.S. lawmakers closely aligned with President Donald Trump. The diplomatic outreach has drawn the attention of the French publication Africa Intelligence.
The Polisario Front hopes to use Colombia's rotating presidency of the UN Security Council to persuade the 15-member body to condemn what it describes as the «killing of Sahrawi civilians by Morocco». The move recalls August 2016, when Venezuela, then a non-permanent member of the Security Council, championed the Front's position during the first El Guerguerat crisis.
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