This evening in New York, the first sessions designated for the interventions of the parties to the Moroccan Sahara conflict were launched within the works of the Special Committee concerned with discussing the issues of the regions that are not self -government, known as the “24 Committee”, with the participation of elected civilian and humanitarian actors representing the southern regions of the Kingdom of Morocco.
The committee, which extends its work until June 20, allocates an important part of its agenda to discuss the Moroccan Sahara file; This is based on the decision of the General Assembly issued in December 2024, which reaffirmed the support of the international political path under the auspices of the United Nations Secretary -General.
It is expected that the sessions allocated to the interventions of the various parties will continue on June 10 and 11 this year, on the horizon of raising recommendations to the eighties of the General Assembly, and within a special report prepared by the Secretary -General on the implementation of the requirements of the recent UN resolution.
Moroccan participation
The session started with a speech delivered by Mohamed Aba, a member of the Eye Eye Sakia Eye Council, in which he emphasized the actual and permanent engagement of the Moroccan Sahara in the management of its local affairs, through elected institutions in a democratic way, and with effective participation in the various national benefits, stressing that “this engagement reflects the collective adherence to national unity and the firm affiliation with the Moroccan identity.”
In this regard, Muhammad Aba said that the region has witnessed deep transformations since Morocco retrieved its territorial integrity in 1975; This is thanks to the vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, may God assist him, which made the southern regions an open development workshop, based on human dignity and sustainable development, pointing out that “structured projects, led by the Tiznit-Dakhla highway whose opening in January 2025 is a model of this integrated development transformation.”
A member of the Council of the entity added that the new development model for the southern regions, which was launched in 2015, enabled the mobilization of important resources to accelerate the pace of development, diversify the economy and improve living indicators, highlighting that “the real investment remains in the human element, through the programs of the National Initiative for Human Development that funded, during the year 2025 only, more than 167 projects in the Sakia El -Sakia Laayoune region, with a financial cover of approximately 36.5 million dirhams.”
The representative of the Moroccan delegation did not miss the reminder that the last elections for the year 2021 recorded the highest participation rate at the national level amounted to 66.94 percent; This is what, as he put it, is strengthened, “the extent of clinging to the Moroccan democratic path and the conscious engagement in the institutional construction of the state.”
The spokesman also stopped at the increasing positive positions of the international community from the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, noting that “the initiative of autonomy presented by Morocco in 2007 is today with wide support, as it is the serious and credible proposal.”
At the end of his intervention, Aba Al -Mutawiya International called for his responsibility to support the development dynamic known to the southern regions, and to differentiate between renewed reality in the field and the transcendent theses that promote narratives that are not related to reality, in line with King Mohammed VI’s call to overcome the logic of artistic conflict and build regional partnerships based on development and stability.
In a statement singled out by the electronic newspaper Hespress, Mohamed Aba, a member of the Council of El -Ayoun Al -Sakia El Hamra, confirmed that his participation in the works of the fourth committee to liquidate the colonialism at the United Nations comes in response to an official invitation, and in continuation of his continuous presence in this international forum since 2017; Including sessions previously held in East Timor, explaining that “his presence as an elected representative of the Moroccan Sahara population is a natural extension of the task of field pleading on the reality of development and democracy witnessed by the southern regions of the Kingdom.”
Aba added, in the aftermath of the meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York, that the democratic experience in the Moroccan Sahara is not just fake slogans; Rather, a daily practice embodied by elected people who manage the local affairs in vital areas such as housing, transportation and logistics, recalling that “the elections in 2021 recorded the highest national participation rate of 66.94 percent, in confirmation of the actual link of the inhabitants of the entity to institutions and national choices.”
He added: “The new development model for the southern regions enabled the causing a qualitative shift in the level of services and infrastructure, which made the region an attractive and integrated space in its national and continental surroundings.”
The member of the Moroccan delegation pointed out that the presence of the local elected in such international meetings sends a clear message to the international community, according to which the inhabitants of the Moroccan Sahara are not a subject of discussion but a subject in it, and that the southern regions are living in deep transformations embodied by the opening of more than thirty consulates in the cities of El -Ayoun and Dakhla, and supported by the positions of the states of balances such as France and the United States, and Britain that expressed their support for the initiative Self -eyeliner as a serious and realistic solution to the fabricated regional conflict.
Muhammad Aba continued his statement to Hespress by inviting the international community to overcome the excessive theses and interact with the field facts made by the royal diplomacy steadfastly, saying: “It is time to subject the population of the Tindouf camps to the transparent statistics process, and enable them to return to their land and participate in the future of the southern regions, according to the vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI that puts the United Nations in front of its political responsibilities And humanity.
For its part, Al -Ghalia Bahia, a member of the Dakhla Wadi Al -Dahab Council Council, said that the development dynamic that the southern provinces of the Kingdom, headed by the Dakhla Valley, constitutes a practical embodiment of a strategic vision led by King Mohammed VI, aims to consolidate the comprehensive integration of these regions within the national development model, through structured projects that translate a strong political will to build prosperous and connected regions With its regional and continental oceans.
Bahia stressed, in an intervention in the same session, that the Dakhla side is classified today among the most prominent centers of emerging growth in the Kingdom, thanks to huge investments that concerned the infrastructure sectors, from roads, ports and airports, as well as renewable energy projects that invest the huge natural capabilities of the region in the fields of solar and comfortable energy; This makes it a strategic lever for investment and green development.
The representative of the entity also highlighted that Dakhla plays a pivotal role in promoting Morocco’s openness to its African depth, by turning into an economic and logistical platform linking North Africa and its west, where projects of concern to preparing industrial areas continue, expanding the tourism offer, and encouraging investments in the sectors of marine fishing and sustainable agriculture, in a manner that ensures the benefit of the local population and enshrines an inclusive field.
The regional official concluded its intervention by emphasizing that the inhabitants of the Moroccan Sahara, whose representatives chose freely and democratically, are engaged today in a comprehensive development dynamic, registering that “the initiative of autonomy, which the Kingdom submitted in 2007, remains the perfect framework to manage this fabricated regional conflict, thanks to the prospects it provides to manage the local affairs within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty, and by reinforcing Stability and development in the region. ”
In turn, Doueihah, a collective actor from the city of El -Ayoun, affirmed that “the civil society in the desert has become a pivotal actor in local development and the defense of human rights and humanitarian issues,” highlighting “the deterioration of humanitarian conditions in the Tindouf camps, and the deprivation of detainees of their basic rights.”
In a similar intervention, Duwaihi reported that the economic dynamism that the southern regions know, through major projects such as the Atlantic Port of Dakhla and the Tiznit -Dakhla Highway, represents a real crane to improve development indicators and create job opportunities for young people, adding that “the virtue of this transformation is due to a clear political will looking to make the Moroccan Sahara a center of intersection between Africa and Europe.”
The spokeswoman stressed that the Moroccan Sahara today is living in a new stage based on openness and stability; This made it a kiss for an increasing number of visitors and investors, stressing that “the new development model for the southern regions has fulfilled many of the aspirations of the population, especially women and youth, through structured projects implemented under the direct supervision of the local teams, in harmony with the requirements of the advanced regionalism.”
Commenting on the political track, its naps, Duhi, considered that the settlement of the fabricated conflict over the Moroccan Sahara is only a matter of time, in light of the increasing international support for the autonomy initiative, which has wide support at the United Nations level, calling on Algeria to be responsible and serious engagement in the international path.
Diplomatic controversy
The intervention of one of the supporters of the separatist thesis during the meeting of the fourth committee of the United Nations, a wave of controversy inside the hall, after exceeding the content of the session devoted to discussing the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, and directly attacked the symbols of the Moroccan state, in an explicit violation of diplomatic norms and controls of international meetings.
In Hazem’s response, Magda Macho, Deputy Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations, took the word in the framework of a system of order, to denounce what she described as “unacceptable transcendence of red lines”, stressing that “the Kingdom of Morocco will not accept any length of its constitutional institutions or its sovereign symbols”, pointing out that “the relevant intervention does not bear any legal or diplomatic capacity that authorizes it to attack a state system with sovereign within an institution UN. ”
In this regard, Algeria rapidly interacted with the Moroccan intervention, by requesting the application of Article 71 of the committee’s internal system, considering that the discussion began to deviate towards a series of regime points that may disrupt the course of the session; While South Africa, which later addressed the word, called for “goodwill”, stressing the need to give way to all opinions, from various parties without a boycott.
In line with the reservation of the Kingdom, the committee’s chairman stressed the necessity of respecting the internal system, and committing to the subject of the session without prejudice to the sovereignty of countries or deviating from the discussion devoted to the desert conflict, stressing that “the balance of the international debate requires responsibility and mutual respect.”
It is noteworthy that the discussions of the session, which followed Hespress with its full phases, are moving in the direction of consolidating different positions within the committee, where the Moroccan delegation is betting on providing documented field data on developmental and democratic progress in the southern provinces, in exchange for attempts by the opponents of the territorial integrity to transfer the discussion towards traditional theses that no longer receive the same resonance within the international circles.
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