The Polisario senses the tide is turning. A dissident offshoot of the Front, the Sahrawi Movement for Peace (MSP) was received yesterday by the United States representative to the United Nations. The MSP, which advocates a «third way» in resolving the Sahara issue, has already called for broadening «the base of Sahrawi actors» involved in negotiations conducted under UN auspices.
Representatives of Sahrawi NGOs have called on United Nations human rights rapporteurs to move beyond cautious, diplomatic statements and condemn human rights violations in the Tindouf camps. The request was backed up with specific examples presented to UN experts in Geneva.
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 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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