The Polisario Front makes Guterres ugly with an "accomplice silence" with Morocco

"No one should think that there can be an authentic and credible process without ending impunity," says Ghali.

MADRID, 15 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The secretary general of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, has accused the main person in charge of the United Nations, António Guterres, of maintaining an "accomplice and unjustifiable silence" on the alleged abuses by Morocco, including the breach of the ceasefire, and has warned of that there is no room to negotiate if "impunity" does not end.

Ghali has responded by letter to the latest annual report of the UN Secretary General, where he reviews the context of the last year in the region. For the Polisario leader, Guterres omits criticism of Morocco in an "unforgivable" way, despite the fact that Rabat would be responsible for "breaking the ceasefire that lasted almost 30 years."

In this sense, it goes back to the incidents of November 2020, to the eviction of a protest at the Guerguerat pass, to warn that since then "the pure truth and reality of the situation" point to the Moroccan forces as being responsible for successive abuses.

"The secretary general has once again chosen to remain silent on this fact, despite the fact that the report recognizes once again the 'resumption of hostilities', Ghali affirms in his letter, where he also defends the will of the Polisario so that the peacekeeping mission (MINURSO) to monitor incidents that, in his opinion, would amount to war crimes.

Instead, he accuses Morocco of torpedoing the work of the UN and, in particular, of its special envoy to the area, Staffan de Mistura, who would have been "blocked" from visiting the disputed territory. The Polisario maintains that De Mistura's trip was frustrated because he did not accept the conditions imposed by Rabat and that he did not meet with Saharawi activists.

This "obstructionism", he adds, "demonstrates beyond all doubt that the occupying country has no political will to facilitate the mission of the personal envoy and to engage constructively in the peace process in Western Sahara".

Ghali affirms that the Polisario Front maintains its "commitment" to achieve "a peaceful, fair and lasting solution", as long as it is taken into account that it is a territory pending decolonization and the Moroccan authorities and forces are pointed out their practices.

"Nobody should think that there can be an authentic and credible process (...) without ending the impunity of the occupying State", responsible for "obstructing the pending self-determination referendum", for violating the ceasefire and for taking the region "to another spiral of violence and instability," according to Ghali.

It also calls for MINURSO to include within its mandate the possibility of monitoring the human rights situation and regrets that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has not been able to visit Western Sahara "for the seventh consecutive year."