Omar Hilale accuses Algeria of blocking Sahara settlement
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Libération (Maroc)
Addressing the UN General Assembly, ambassador Omar Hilale states that the Sahara will remain Moroccan and holds Algeria responsible for the blockage, following the Russian veto against renewing MINURSO. He puts forward six questions and answers on the autonomy plan and on refugees in the Tindouf camps, according to Libé Maroc.
Moroccan UN Permanent Representative Omar Hilale told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday that "the Sahara was Moroccan before 30 October, it is even more Moroccan after 30 October", according to Libération (Morocco). He blames Algeria for blocking the settlement of the dispute, and presents the Russian veto against renewing MINURSO, the UN mission in the Sahara, as a consequence of this blockage rather than its cause.
During this plenary session, Mr Hilale presented six questions and answers, one of which recalls that Morocco proposes an autonomy plan under Moroccan sovereignty, discussed with Algeria and the Polisario Front in three sessions in Washington and Madrid. He also cites a humanitarian tragedy of 30,000 refugees in the Tindouf camps for half a century. According to him, "no blockage lasts half a century by chance".
