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UNSC shocked at Special envoy''s call on Sahrawi people to give up
Politics    4/21/2008 9:45:00 PM
 
independence UNITED NATIONS, April 21 (KUNA) -- Security Council President Dumisani Kumalo of South Africa on Monday expressed shock that the Secretary-General's special envoy for Western Sahara Peter Van Walsum advised the Polisario Front to be "realistic" and give up their pursuit of independence for their people from Morocco.
"This morning we were suggendly sent a second document, other than the report of the Secretary-General's, which was the reflection of the opinions of Mr. Van Walsum. These opinions seem to contradict the report of the Secretary-General. So we decided to focus on the report of the Secretary-General," Kumalo told reporters follwing a council closed-door meeting on the issue of Western Sahara.
"It is not helpful when you suddenly have this ad-hoc report that comes up and say somthing different (from the Secretary-General's report.) It was confusing. We were confronted with two (contradictory) reports," he complained.
Van Walsum raised during the consultations with council members in his personal capacity the "realistic option" that independence of Western Sahara "may not be possible for the people of Western Sahara, and asked the Polisario Front to become realistic and realize they might not achieve their goal of independence." Kumalo said he reacted in his national capacity in the council saying "hey, if we are in that business, we should also tell the Palestinians to forget it and be realistic that they would never get it. That is the danger of the so called realism." In his report to the council on the issue of Western Sahara last week, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the parties - Morocco and the Polisario Front - to continue to negotiate and make every concerted effort in their next meetings to try and come to a mutual agreement. The two parties held four rounds of UN sponsored meetings during the last few months but in vain.
The "unfortunate thing", Kumalo said, "is that realism is only applied to the people of Western Sahara, not on Morocco, and I think, indirectly, it sends the wrong message to Morocco. The last thing you want to do in this case is to give the impression to the parties that the suggestions of one party have more value than the suggestions of another." "We urge Mr. Van Walsum to continue (his work) by relying on the resolutions of the Security Council which call on both parties to do this," he said.
A UN official said the council did the right thing concentrating on Ban's report, because that is the only one that should be on the council's table. (end) sj.bz.
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