The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, Nasser Bourita, met Thursday in Rabat with the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Moroccan Sahara, Staffan de Mistura.
This working session took place in the presence of the Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the UN, Omar Hilale, indicates a press release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation, and Moroccans Residing Abroad.
Mr. de Mistura’s regional visit is part of the implementation of Security Council resolution 2602, adopted on October 29, 2021, in which the UN Executive Body reiterates its call to the parties to continue their engagement in the round table process, in a spirit of realism and compromise, to reach a realistic, pragmatic, lasting and compromise-based political solution, adds the same source.
During these talks, the Moroccan delegation reiterated the fundamentals of the Kingdom’s position, as recalled in the speeches of His Majesty King Mohammed VI on the occasion of the 45th and 46th anniversaries of the Green March.
Indeed, the Sovereign had reaffirmed, in said speeches, Morocco’s attachment to the resumption of the political process led under the exclusive aegis of the UN to achieve a political solution on the basis of the Moroccan Initiative of Autonomy, as part of the roundtable process, in the presence of the four participants, the press release concludes.