Alger, 07 Dec 2020 (SPS) The issue of the decolonization of Western Sahara has returned to the agenda of the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) by virtue of a draft decision endorsed on Sunday by the African Union at the ‘after its summit on Sunday on the theme “silence the guns in Africa”.
The draft decision, presented by the Prime Minister of Lesotho gives visibility to the Sahrawi question by placing it again on the agenda of the AU PSC, after many attempts by Rabat to remove this decision-making body from the AU of the conflict settlement process in Western Sahara.
The consulted decision “requests the AU Peace and Security Council in accordance with the relevant provisions of its protocol to engage the two parties, both of whom are members of the African Union, to remedy the situation (on the ground) by view to prepare the conditions for a new ceasefire and to reach a lasting solution to the conflict which provides for self-determination in Western Sahara “.
This solution must also be “in accordance with the relevant decisions and resolutions of the African Union and the United Nations as well as the objectives and principles of the constitutive act of the AU”, which it is worth recalling insists on the strict respect for the principle of the intangibility of the borders inherited from colonization. (SPS)
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