The King of Morocco declares the day the Security Council votes to support his plan for Western Sahara a national holiday
The King of Morocco, Mohammed VI, announced “on Tuesday” October 31 is a national holiday, on the occasion of the Security Council’s adoption on that day of a resolution supporting the Moroccan plan for autonomy in Western Sahara.
The Moroccan Royal Court said in a statement that “in consideration of the historical transformation witnessed in the course of our national cause, and in remembrance of the decisive developments.” In the recent Security Council resolution, it was decided to make October 31 of each year a “national holiday.”
He added that King Mohammed VI named it “Unity Day.” On this occasion “with the implications and references it carries for the solid national and territorial unity of the Kingdom.”
The UN Security Council voted on Friday, at the initiative of the United States, in favor of supporting the Moroccan autonomy plan in Western Sahara, considering it the “most realistic” solution. For the disputed territory, despite the opposition of Algeria, a non-permanent member of the Council.
The Security Council has so far called on Morocco, the Polisario, Algeria and Mauritania to resume negotiations that have been suspended since 2019 to reach a “realistic, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution.”
But the new resolution stipulates, at an American initiative, that the autonomy plan, presented by Morocco in 2007, which provides for granting the region autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, “may represent the most realistic solution.” It can form the "foundation" For future negotiations to end a conflict that has been going on for five decades.
The United Nations considers Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony until 1975, among the "non-self-governing territories" In the absence of a final settlement, it is the only region on the African continent whose status is still pending after the end of colonialism, and is witnessing a conflict between Rabat and the separatist Polisario Front supported by Algeria.
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