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|Morocco’s Territorial Integrity Support Group Hails Kingdom’s Constructive Interaction with UN Human Rights System
The Support Group for the Territorial Integrity of Morocco welcomed, on Tuesday in Geneva, the Kingdom’s commitment, for many years, in a constructive, voluntary and deep interaction with the United Nations human rights system.
The Group, which has 36 States, emphasized in a declaration presented at the 52nd session of the Human Rights Council, the constructive interaction of Morocco with the United Nations system of human rights and particularly with the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), for the promotion and respect of human rights throughout its territory.
In this sense, the Group recalled that in its resolutions on the Sahara dispute, the Security Council welcomes the role played by the national and regional Human Rights Commissions in Dakhla and Laâyoune and the interaction between the Morocco and the mechanisms under the special procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
In addition, the group, which supports Morocco’s full sovereignty over its Saharan provinces, stressed that “the interaction of member states with the Council and the High Commissioner must retain its bilateral character and be preserved from any instrumentalization, which generates counterproductive political debates within the Human Rights Council”.
The welcomed the opening, by many countries, of Consulates General in the cities of Dakhla and Laayoune, which constitute a lever for strengthening economic cooperation and investments, for the benefit of local populations, regional and also continental development.
The Sahara issue is a political dispute dealt with by the Security Council which recognizes the pre-eminence of the autonomy initiative presented by Morocco as credible and serious for a definitive political solution to the regional dispute over the Sahara, recalled the same source.
Thus, the group expressed its support for the efforts of the personal envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Staffan De Mistura, for the relaunch of the exclusively UN political process on the basis of the format established during the two round tables in Geneva, in accordance with Security Council resolutions, in particular the latest resolution 2602 of October 29, 2021, aimed at achieving a political, realistic, pragmatic, lasting and compromise-based solution to this regional dispute.
And to conclude that the resolution of this regional dispute will contribute to concretizing the legitimate aspirations of the African and Arab peoples in terms of integration and development, an objective that Morocco continues to aim for and for which it is making sincere and continuous efforts.
News and events on Western Sahara issue/ CORCAS
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| 3/8/2023
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