Implications of UN Bourita’s call on De Mistura to break out of the “vicious circle”

Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, called on the United Nations and the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General to the Moroccan Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, to “depart from a path that revolves in a vicious circle to a path that is heading towards the only possible solution to this issue, which… It is self-government.”

This came after Bourita recalled, during a press conference that brought him together with his Slovenian counterpart, on Tuesday in Rabat, the dynamism witnessed in the Kingdom’s territorial integrity file after about 100 countries supported the autonomy proposal, which he considered “a message from the international community that it is time to end this crisis, and also a message.” For other parties to exploit the opportunity and not cling to dreams and mirages, because there is no possible solution except self-rule.”

Commenting on these messages, Bousselham Aissat, a researcher in political and international studies, said that they carry several connotations, including “reminding the United Nations, especially the Secretary-General’s envoy to the Moroccan Sahara, of the outcome of what Morocco has achieved today in terms of support and international support for the autonomy initiative as a realistic and serious solution to overcome the artificial conflict.” In the southern regions, then a reference to the Special Envoy and the Secretary-General of the United Nations to seek to adapt their efforts to resolve the artificial conflict in a manner consistent with Security Council resolutions, which considers the self-government initiative a serious and realistic initiative, and as an opportunity to move forward on this path.”

These statements, Aissat added in a statement to Hespress, “are a clear message of the necessity for the rest of the international partners or potential partners in the future to leave the gray zone, and they are a confirmation of what His Majesty the King expressed in the King and the People’s Revolution speech, that the Sahara is the glasses through which Morocco looks at the world, and it is a standard.” Measuring the sincerity of charity and the effectiveness of partnerships.

The same researcher concluded that what was stated by the Moroccan Foreign Minister “is a message addressed to the opponents of territorial integrity, especially Algeria, which has begun exploiting its membership in the Security Council to serve its agenda and its anti-Moroccan diplomatic doctrine by adopting the thesis of secession, instead of focusing on the stakes of security and development in Africa as part of the responsibility that it bears.” I was elected on its basis to represent it.”

For his part, Al-Abbas Al-Wardi, professor of political science at Mohammed V University in Rabat, said that this invitation from the Moroccan Foreign Minister “sends a strong signal to the international community, through which the United Nations, that this conflict has been prolonged, and that there is an international consensus on the basic solution presented by Morocco, and that this consensus It must be devoted to reality in order to curb a group of dark entities that mobilize some countries and through them mislead the international structure and the international community.”

Al-Wardi added in a statement to Hespress: “We are facing a clear message from the Moroccan Foreign Minister confirming the adherence of the international structure, led by more than 100 countries, to the pretext of the legitimacy and acceptability of self-rule, the most recent of which was, of course, the meeting of the 24th Committee, which affirmed Morocco’s right to this. “The approach is that the structure of autonomy is acceptable and a realistic and serious solution.”
The expert in international relations believes that “the United Nations must be aware that this international consensus must be consolidated on the ground, and through it it must also restrain a group of countries that are still applying double standards and trying to subjugate the international order and international legitimacy to their liking.”