Western Sahara, Sahrawis denounce: United Nations support the occupying power

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The New York Support Group for the Independence of Western Sahara (more than 300 member- organisations from around the world) denounces the inaction of the United Nations in relation to the situation prevailing in the occupied Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara.
The politization of the Decolonisation process of Western Sahara and the “business as usual” policy pursued by the UN General Assembly 4th Committee and the UN Security Council is leading to nothing, but to perpetuate and strengthen the illegal military occupation and annexation of the Territory by the Kingdom of Morocco.
The New York Support Group for the Independence of Western Sahara observes that the Secretary General (UNSG), the supreme guardian of the founding values of the organisation, limits himself to a role of spectator without bothering to qualify the reported facts in relation to the Principles and Spirit of the UN Charter and the Principles of international law relating to Non- Self-Governing Territories.
In paragraph 6 of his report to the General Assembly (A/77/506), the UNSG mentions that MINURSO reported of strikes conducted by Royal Moroccan Army unmanned aerial vehicles east of the Berm, confirming that casualties had occurred and that MINURSO observed traces of human remains. The UNSG did not consider it necessary to specify that those strikes may amount to war crimes when civilians are targeted.
In paragraph 7, the UNSG reports that legislative, regional-level and commune-level elections were held in the part of Western Sahara under Moroccan control on 8 September 2021. Regrettably, he did not stress that those elections are illegal and must be considered being an instrument of the illegal annexation of the Territory by the Kingdom of Morocco.
In paragraph 8, in referring to the inauguration of some “General Consulates”, the UNSG reports the comments made by the Frente POLISARIO, but abstained himself from qualifying those initiatives with respect to international law as illegal.
In paragraph 9, the UNSG reports about a a letter addressed to King Mohammed VI of Morocco on 14 March 2022 by the Prime Minister of Spain, in which he takes a position that is incompatible with the role the Kingdom of Spain should play as the de jure administering Power of the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara. Regrettably, the UNSG omits to mention that the opinion expressed by Prime Minister Sánchez-Castejón is irrelevant from the legal point of view of the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (Agenda item 55 under which the report is submitted).
In addressing recent developments and political activities in his report to the UN Security Council (S/2022/733), the UNSG lists a number of events and statements with an approach that equates the occupying Power and the representative of the people living under occupation.

In addressing humanitarian activities and human rights issues, the UNSG continues to neglect all breaches to International Humanitarian Law related to the illegal military occupation and annexation of the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco (see Annex).
In paragraph 81 of the report, the UNSG refers to a report submitted by the Moroccan National Human Rights Institution that is acting illegally, outside of its geographic mandate (the Kingdom of Morocco), under the authority of the occupying Power.
In paragraph 82 of the report, the UNSG refers to a Moroccan report about its cooperation with UN human rights mechanisms without mentioning that none of them was able to visit the occupied Territory, like the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which was unable to conduct any visits to Western Sahara for the seventh consecutive year (see para. 77 of the report).
Above all, in all his reports the UNSG continues to be a spectator of the illegal military occupation and annexation of the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara, disregarding the fact that Western Sahara is the only Non-Self-Governing Territory that has not an acting administering Power and that therefore the primary responsibility to achieve the decolonisation process stands with the United Nations itself, which should ensure that this process is conducted with due respect of the Principals of the UN Charter, the UN relevant resolutions and international law concerning Non-Self-Governing Territories.
The passive role constantly adopted by Mr. Guterres, including during the 30 months’ period (May 2019 to October 2021) during which there was no Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, does not give any concrete support to Mr. De Mistura and allows the permanent members of the UN Security Council (United States, France and the United Kingdom) to constantly delay the fulfilment by the MINURSO of its main mandate, the organisation of a free and democratic referendum; thus supporting the persistent illegal occupation and annexation of a large part of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco.
The New York Support Group for the Independence of Western Sahara calls upon again all States to freeze all deliveries of war material to the Kingdom of Morocco until a free and democratic referendum for self-determination of the Saharawi people has taken place in Western Sahara under the auspices of the United Nations.
The New York Support Group for the Independence of Western Sahara calls upon the UN Secretary-General to guide the United Nations in assuming its primary responsibility for the protection of the Saharawi people living under occupation and for the decolonisation process of the Non-Self-Governing Territory of Western Sahara, which will contribute to strengthen peace, security and sustainable development in the Maghreb region.