The imminent UN resolution on Western Sahara
Tomorrow, Thursday 30 October, the United Nations Security Council is expected to issue a new resolution on the issue of Western Sahara, Morocco's southernmost territory, which for 50 years has been the subject of conspiracies by Algeria and its two inventions: the Polisario and the self-proclaimed ‘Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic - SADR’, with the aim of preventing the Alawite kingdom from consolidating its historic and legitimate effective sovereignty over that region.
It should not be difficult, then, to intuit that its text will be geared towards the dominant direction in which processes have been unfolding in the international system regarding this territory, which is none other than finding a realistic, serious and lasting solution which, in the opinion of the overwhelming majority of UN member states, should result in the recognition of the sovereignty of the Kingdom of Morocco over the Sahara and the acceptance of the Moroccan proposal for autonomy for the southern provinces of the country.
Looking at the course of these trends in the world, where practically all the permanent members of the Security Council, namely the United States of America, France, the United Kingdom and Russia – only China is missing – have leaned in favour of Morocco's just cause, and how the vast majority of the Sahrawi population is living their lives to the fullest, exercising their full rights as citizens and enjoying an unquestionable quality of life, it is the opinion of the author of these lines that a suitable and ideal resolution should go in this single direction of political and social realism in Western Sahara.
The persistence of a process that has only generated instability for the Maghreb and had a negative impact on the development of an African society in light of the enormous auspicious developments that continue to take place in North Africa will not result in the construction of a sensible solution.
The world continues to turn the page on a well-known chapter of history in which it will be obsolete, anachronistic and even incompatible to continue insisting on a phenomenon of decolonisation that ended with the historic 50-year-old Green March of 1975.
The world demands that the nation directly involved, namely Algeria, look in the mirror of the international life it deserves alongside Morocco and the other nations of the Maghreb and agree to abandon the recalcitrant attitude it has stubbornly maintained, turning to an ecumenical acceptance that, over the years, could even create the basis for real integration in that part of Africa that has been absent due to deliberate plots that today are seen as unbearable.
The UN must interpret, through the expected resolution, the echo of what the vast majority of the international community really wants on the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, which has even harmonised its international law in favour of the Alawite kingdom, with the opening of missions.