There are those mythical dates that hold the breath of the myth itself and make an impact that lasts. There are some of these dates that sound like a hecatomb, but also like gestures that surprise with their timing and context. In politics and diplomacy, every behavior expresses recognition and a nod to the future, both bathed in optimism. What happened on October 31, 2025, at the United Nations Security Council has not yet revealed all its secrets.

Beyond the adoption of a resolution that strengthens Morocco’s position on the regional conflict over the Moroccan Sahara, this event outlines the contours of a new geopolitics that sheds light on the link between the national interest of states and political pragmatism.

Last week, a friend, a diplomat who is very familiar with the subtleties of the Moroccan Sahara issue, particularly in its tribal dimension, thought that it is on this basis that the autonomy plan within Moroccan sovereignty, as a backdrop, will be successful. He highlighted his argument by emphasizing the nobility and wisdom the kings of Morocco showed every time they addressed issues that bear an existential dimension for the country.

My friend’s thought inspired me with another equally edifying idea: faithfulness. When this faithfulness takes on a political and diplomatic dimension, it becomes even more noble. When faithfulness takes into account the realism variable, then, it puts political scientists and international relations experts in a bind. Faithfulness then becomes a behavior describing human nature, which seeks peace and order in the management of relations between societies and nations.

What is the relationship between ethics and foreign policy, which some consider to be incompatible? This relationship varies depending on the context and the scope of the issues raised in terms of adversity, animosity, and the propensity that the actors involved perform for the sake of achieving a definitive mutual neutralization.

No hard feelings, just clocks set back on time

From then on, the junction between nobility, recognition, and ethics becomes all the more important. I am thinking of the American position, which, since 2020, has allowed the issue of the Southern provinces of Morocco to be placed on a new orbit.

This position spreads a recognition mood.