The Sahrawi Movement for Peace (MSP) calls on De Mistura to ensure a more inclusive consultation process to prevent another breakdown in negotiations

The Sahrawi Movement for Peace (MSP) has sent a message to the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, requesting the expansion of the consultation process to include other Sahrawi voices, in order to avoid a new collapse in the negotiations and overcome the stalemate that has lasted for three decades.

The letter was sent by Hach Ahmed Bericalla, first secretary of the MSP, who stresses that this request responds to a fundamental principle: the need for plurality and representativeness in a process sponsored by the United Nations. The movement considers it “inconceivable” that a single organization, “totalitarian in nature and with single-party practices,” continues to monopolize the voice and aspirations of an entire people, in contradiction to the principles of freedom of expression and diversity that should guide any peace initiative.

The MSP warns that this demand for greater plurality is now more urgent than ever, especially in a context marked by unilateral pressures that could lead to a single voice determining the future of an entire people and, consequently, precipitate the failure of the peace operation.

The MSP also recalls that the Personal Envoy has the power to promote a more inclusive and democratizing process, precisely at a crucial moment when these dynamics threaten to block any genuine progress. In this regard, the movement highlights that, during the Security Council debates held last October, the US administration made clear its unwillingness to support an extension of MINURSO's mandate beyond six months, thus hinting that this could be its last cycle if no concrete progress is made.

In its message, the MSP also points out that, common sense dictates that we cannot rule out the possibility that Morocco may change its mind in the future and that it will not necessarily maintain its current position towards a very broad, authentic autonomy formula accompanied by international guarantees indefinitely, especially when, on the ground and at the diplomatic level, it feels comfortable with the balance of power that has existed since 1991. This reality, the movement adds, reinforces the urgency of avoiding a new phase of deadlock and taking advantage of the “momentum” to which the Personal Envoy himself has referred.

Finally, the Sahrawi Movement for Peace reiterates its full willingness to participate constructively in this process, with the aim of preventing time from running out without tangible progress towards a just, lasting, and mutually acceptable political solution.