Algeria Criticizes UN Resolution on Western Sahara Referendum Mission

"Algeria has taken note of Resolution 2548 which extends the MINURSO mandate by 12 months," the Algerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. However, the department of Sabri Boukadoum "regrets that Resolution 2548 (2020), like Resolution 2494 (2019), does not recommend any concrete measures to relaunch the political process and facilitate the full and unhindered implementation of MINURSO’s mandate." According to him, it is a "resolution that essentially reproduces the text of Resolution 2494 (2019)".

The words used in the press release express Algeria’s barely veiled discontent, cited five times in the Security Council resolution as a "stakeholder". Nasser Bourita, Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Residing Abroad, has also made it known that the Security Council has called on Algeria to assume a role commensurate with its political, diplomatic, military and humanitarian involvement in this regional dispute, as no political process is conceivable without its effective and constructive involvement.