Rabat — Morocco secured a landmark diplomatic victory with UN Security Council Resolution 2797, which experts describe as a milestone moment in the decades-long Sahara dispute.
Speaking at a symposium commemorating the Green March anniversary on Friday in Casablanca, Samir Bennis, senior political advisor in Washington and co-founder of Morocco World News (MWN), called the resolution “the first in United Nations history to reference Moroccan sovereignty” over the Western Sahara region.
Bennis made the statements during the event organized by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Ben M’sik, Hassan II University.
The expert noted that none of the previous UN General Assembly resolutions — from Resolution 2072 adopted in 1965 through last year’s Resolution — had ever mentioned Moroccan sovereignty over the Saha
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