The United Nations Security Council decided, on Thursday, to extend the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara, MINURSO, for one year.
The Security Council “decides to extend the mandate of MINURSO until October 31, 2025,” says resolution 2756, submitted by the U.S. penholder.
The new resolution was adopted with an overwhelming majority. Twelve members of the Council voted in favor, two abstained, while Algeria, a non-permanent member chose not to vote for the resolution to avoid humiliation as it failed to serve its own geopolitical agenda because it is the main party to the Sahara regional conflict.
In this new resolution, the UN executive body reaffirmed its support for the Moroccan autonomy initiative, presented by the Kingdom in 2007, as a serious and credible basis with a view to settling the artificial conflict over the Sahara, in accordance with the resolutions of the Security Council.
For the Security Council, the realistic, serious and credible autonomy plan offered by Morocco for the Sahara under its sovereignty is the benchmark and the only doable solution to the Sahara regional conflict
Algeria has been called back by the Council to the roundtable talks to advance the UN-led political process engaged to find a last solution to the Sahara issue.
The United States, the penholder on the Sahara at the Security Council, has rejected a proposal submitted by Algeria’s delegate to the UN for extending MINURSO mandate to include human rights monitoring.
The amendment was also rejected by France, another permanent member of UN Security Council with veto power.