Rabat -armed militias from the Polisario front on Monday blocked and opened the fire on a UN convoy in the Level Area, a place in the controversial area of
The Algerian political activist Oualid Kebir said that the incident was a serious escalation and, despite his great budget, would result in the ineffectiveness of the UN mission. “The incident showed the effective inability of the UN mission to fulfill its duties despite the great budget” said.
This disability takes place only one week after UN envoy Staffan de Mistura Significant shift In his position on the western Sahara dispute during a security council.
De Mistura gave his previous proposal from October 2024, which suggested that the area between Morocco and the Polisario front, emphasized that Morocco’s autonomy plan is the only sustainable and politically realistic solution.
This was a great diplomatic victory for Morocco and a serious setback for both the Polisario and Algeria, which have long been against the autonomy proposal. The revised attitude of the envoy corresponds to the growing international support for the Morocco plan, which has been considered credible and serious by the global community since 2007.
This is not the first time that the Polisario Minurso has hindered. In March 2023, the armed group blocked the UN access to team locations east of the security wall.
“The convoy went off on March 22nd. When he approached Mehaires, about 20 fronts Polisario blocked the route and stopped the convoy, which insisted that he could not continue and had to return to Smara,” says a report by UnsG Antonio Guterres 2023.
At that time, strong pressure led to a temporary solution, whereby the Polisario enabled the UN peacekeeping troops.
Kebir believes that the incident in Avit could be a turning point, which may lead to Morocco expanding its control over the buffer zone, especially after the growing international support for the autonomy plan in Morocco.
At the beginning of this month, the United States confirmed its strong support for Morocco’s sovereignty Western SaharaWith the State Secretary Marco Rubio, Washington explained the clear support of Rabat’s position another blow against Algeria’s diplomatic ambitions.
Several other countries have followed. Finally, Croatia expressed his support. France, which had been trying to maintain neutrality for a long time, has now clearly supported Morocco’s sovereignty and swore to collect international support. Spain also performed a dramatic shift in March 2022, which officially carried out the approval Autonomy plan After a diplomatic crisis with Morocco, the decades of support for the separatist narrative.
“Agounit’s message signals that the hour of the political and territorial solution is close and the end of the UN Deadlock in the Moroccan Sahara has only become a matter of time,” concluded Kebir.
