UN Envoy for Sahara to Visit Algeria and Mauritania Following Morocco Trip

This tour was started last July, recalls Al Ahdath Al Maghribia, specifying that the diplomat was in Morocco, where he had working meetings with Nasser Bourita, Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the presence of the Kingdom’s permanent representative to the UN, Omar Hilal.

The Moroccan delegation had insisted to the personal envoy on the constants of Morocco’s position on the Sahara issue, it is pointed out.

During the second stage, planned in the other countries of the region, the UN Secretary-General’s personal envoy will exchange with the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, a visit to the Tindouf camps and a meeting with the Mauritanian Foreign Minister, the newspaper reports.

It should be noted that this upcoming tour of Staffan de Mistura had been undertaken and canceled at the last minute, after his passage to the Kingdom. This postponement had provoked attacks from the eastern neighbor who was quick to accuse Morocco of preventing the official from traveling to the Tindouf camps. An attitude deplored by the UN, which then had to deny it, recalling that the special envoy had control over his travels and that the changes in his program were his own initiative.