Algeria’s resounding silence following UNSC Resolution 2703 – The North Africa Post

It also urged Algeria to conduct a head count of the population held in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps and deplored the degradation of human rights and living conditions there. The same resolution mentioned Algeria six times- on par with Morocco- and urged a realistic, feasible and mutually acceptable solution based on compromise. It further called for adapting the strategic focus of the peacekeeping mission the MINURSO to help the parties achieve a political solution, describing Morocco’s autonomy plan as serious and credible. This same language prompted a hysterical reaction on the part of Algeria, following UNSC resolution 2603, when it declared its withdrawal and rejection of the round tables process. Since 2007, the UN Security Council dropped the unfeasible referendum option from its resolutions on the Sahara urging instead a mutually-acceptable solution.