The leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, has shown his willingness to work with the United Nations for the decolonization of Western Sahara and reiterated that he «will not accept» an approach «contrary» to international law to resolve the dispute with Morocco.
Ghali called on the UN Security Council to allow the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to «fulfill its mandate» and to oblige Morocco to «put an end to all restrictions that hinder» the implementation of the 1991 agreement.
In this regard, he asked the European Union (EU) to «respect the provisions of international law» and «the resolutions of the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) on the legal status of Western Sahara», according to the Saharawi news agency SPS.
The leader of the Polisario Front asked the African Union (AU) to increase its efforts to decolonize Western Sahara and stressed «the readiness of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to work for the resolution of the conflict with the Moroccan neighbor, in strict compliance with the principles of the Constitutive Act of the AU, according to the borders inherited from independence and mutual respect and good neighborliness».
The former Spanish colony of Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco in 1975 despite the resistance of the Polisario Front, with whom it was at war until 1991, when both parties signed a cease-fire with a view to holding a referendum on self-determination, but differences over the elaboration of the census and the inclusion or not of Moroccan settlers has so far prevented its convocation.
On November 14, 2020, the Polisario Front declared the cease-fire with Morocco broken in response to a Moroccan military action against Saharawi activists in Guerguerat, in the agreed zone of détente, which was for the Saharawis a violation of the terms of the cease-fire.
