UN Deputy Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, reiterated on Sunday in Algiers the willingness of the new UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, to relaunch negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco With a view to resolving the conflict in occupied Western Sahara.
“Another important subject was raised, which is the opportunity to express the Secretary-General’s (Secretary-General Guterres’s) strong desire to re-engage efforts towards political negotiations following the adoption By the Security Council of recent resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Mission for the Organization of the Referendum in Western Sahara (MlNURSO), “said Minister Lacroix at the end of the hearing granted to him by the Minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ramtane Lamamra, attended by the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Mali and Head of the UN Integrated Multifaceted Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA ), Mahamat Saleh Annadif.
Underlining the efforts made since the arrival of the new UN Secretary General to “clear the way” in front of political work in accordance with the resolutions of the UN Security Council, Mr. Lacroix explained that the “work is meticulous, Gradually, covering several situations, including the return to full functionality of Minurso, which is now being acquired. And then a job to create the conditions at Guereguerat so that what could constitute difficulties, Obstacles in this work done by the SG (of the UN) to re-engage the process, is put today on the side “.
“So there is this progression. Again I repeat the will of the SG is there so that now we can advance according to what the Security Council asks us for a political work,” concluded the UN official.
