Listening closely to Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf during his latest interview elaborating on the recent Resolution 2797 on the Moroccan Sahara, one wonders whether we were looking at the same text issued by the Security Council.
Contrary to his country’s press, which was unanimous in denouncing what it called American pressure, Attaf seemed satisfied, and even happy, when he announced that his country was on the verge of voting for the resolution, were it not for this small provision on Moroccan sovereignty. The minister thus attempted to cover up the mistakes of his department and to downplay the significance of the Security Council’s decisions.
Attaf was satisfied, or appeared to be so, that this reference to Moroccan sovereignty was included only in the preamble and not in the operative part of the resolution. He considered this to be a significant distinction, adding that, for Algiers, the fundamentals had thus been preserved. In his account, he specifically accused Moroccans of wanting to dismantle MINURSO and transform its mandate in order to impose the Autonomy Plan as the sole and exclusive solution – thus killing off the idea of a referendum once and fo
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