فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Omar Hilal, has sent an official letter to the President and members of the UN Security Council, expressing the Kingdom of Morocco’s strong condemnation of a biased paragraph concerning the Western Sahara issue included in the Security Council’s latest report to the UN General Assembly for the year 2024.
The letter came following the adoption of the Security Council’s briefing report on Friday, May 30, 2025. Morocco voiced clear reservations about the phrasing of the paragraph addressing Western Sahara, firmly rejecting the use of the term “the two parties” in the context of the conflict, which it considers a partial stance undermining the required neutrality in such reports.
Ambassador Hilal explained that the report’s introduction deviated sharply from the usual practice aimed at providing an objective and concise summary of key developments. Instead of presenting the Council’s position and earnest efforts toward a just and lasting political solution to the regional dispute, the report offered a biased and unbalanced reading reflecting a specific viewpoint without considering the positions of all Council members.
He pointed out that the contested paragraph selectively and contextually reflected only the perspective of the report’s author and a non-permanent Council member, ignoring contributions and positions of other members, thus straying from the spirit of consensus that characterizes the Security Council.
The Ambassador emphasized that the Security Council recognizes the principle of the four parties involved in the conflict — Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, and the Polisario Front — a principle mentioned on five occasions in Council reports since 2018. No report by the Secretary-General or General Assembly resolution has ever limited the political process to just two parties as implied in the current report.
Hilal also highlighted the broad international support for Morocco’s autonomy initiative, which is regarded as the sole acceptable solution to the dispute. This initiative enjoys backing from 116 countries, including permanent and non-permanent Security Council members, reflecting the current international momentum supporting Morocco’s position.
He warned that deviating from neutrality and accuracy in Security Council reports undermines the Council’s credibility before the General Assembly and raises questions about the integrity of the information presented. He stressed the necessity for reports to be objective and impartial, clearly reflecting the established fundamentals of the political process endorsed by the UN, including the involved parties and criteria for a political solution.
In conclusion, Ambassador Hilal strongly condemned the breach of principles of accuracy and integrity in the report and rejected the political distortion contained in the biased paragraph, describing it as a desperate attempt to disrupt the international momentum supporting the political process under UN auspices.
The letter addressed to the Security Council was also sent to the President of the General Assembly and the UN Secretary-General and will be published as an official document of both the Security Council and the General Assembly, becoming part of the United Nations’ official records.
