Polisario Front

And one last thing I also need to mention, because people have been pointing to the May 2021 crisis when migrants crossed the border in massive numbers at that time.

But the interesting thing is that the foreign minister at that time actually admitted in an interview with the French radio that they decided to stop watching the border because at that moment what happened was that Spain, under Pedro Sanchez, had accepted to welcome the leader of the Polisario Front, who is defending the Western Sahara independence, to be treated for COVID-19.

And he was accepted into Spain using fake documents.

Morocco considered that was a knife in the back that should not have had happened and that they should have been informed about this as part of the partnership they have with Spain.

Now, clearly not everyone agrees with that.

The Polisario that represent the Sahrawis do not agree with it.

But also the Russians have opposed that now in the UN Security Council.

So they vetoed a US-sponsored resolution that would have imposed that endgame.

and prepare a referendum on the territory's future.

Morocco has considered Western Sahara as part of its territory, while the Polisario Front, an Algeria-backed movement acting on behalf of the indigenous Sahrawi people, has been trying to establish an independent state called the Sahrawi Republic.

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let's talk about the united nation closing the western sahara peacekeeping operation

uh on sunday the u.n announced that this was uh it was uh shutting down the operation it's it's gonna take some time to fully unwind it uh but the western sahara peacekeeping operation has been in place since 1991 it was put in place uh to adjudicate the claims uh variously of the moroccan government which claims sovereignty over Western Sahara, and there were other, been other claimants that sort of dropped by the wayside, but the Sahrawi people is represented by a group called the Polisario Front that want independence from Morocco.

Western Sahara, of course, was a Spanish colonial territory, and then Morocco kind of seized effective control over it when Spain pulled out.

But there's an independence movement represented by the Polisario Front.

The UN mission's one overriding goal or purpose was to organize a referendum on independence versus joining Morocco.

And 35 years later, that referendum has never happened.

So the mission is shutting down.

This is really kind of great news for the Moroccan government because effectively the closure of that mission further ratifies Morocco's commitment claim on the territory, which has gotten increasing levels of international support from the U.S. as part of the Abraham Accords, but also from several European countries.

The 35-year-old United Nations peacekeeping mission came to an end after the Security Council did not renew its mandate last week.

The UN said, removing the international presence that has monitored the ceasefire in a decade-old dispute, the Western Sahara conflict paid Morocco, which considers the territory it owned against Algeria-backed Polisario Front, a political and military organization that has been seeking a separate state since the departure of former colonial power Spain in 1976.

Morocco's voluntary commitment to cease fire would not change with the end of a UN mission, the place said in a statement following a meeting chaired by King Mohammed the Sidh with the Prime Minister, royal adviser and the army chief.

Morocco welcomed the decision not to extend the mission While the Polisario voiced worry and Algeria profoundly disappointed, Morocco controls all of Western Sahara urban centres and its coastline.

Es decir, que es capaz de imponer esa narrativa.

Y además a un, bueno, pues un Frente Polisario muy debilitado, una situación con Argelia complicada, pero que desde luego no tienen tanta fuerza como para hacerle, para hacerle contrapeso.

Y una Naciones Unidas que, que, bueno, pues confirma otro des-- otro fracaso, ¿no? De no, no soy capaz de renovar esta misión, no soy capaz de, de cumplir uno de mis mandatos, que es ser ese ente observador que asegura la autodeterminación de los pueblos, que asegura que a futuro se dé un referéndum para los saharauis.

Es decir, que por mucho que luego que António Guterres diga: "Oye, mmm, ojo, porque el plan de Marruecos para el Sáhara o la reclamación de Marruecos sobre el Sáhara Occidental no es acorde a derecho internacional y se tiene que asegurar, eh, la descolonización de este territorio, etcétera, etcétera", eh, de facto es lo que estamos viendo.

Es decir, no creo que Rusia se esté negando por una especie de cosmovisión universalista y de derecho internacional.

No, probablemente lo, lo está agarrando para poder cambiarlo el día de mañana.

Lo, lo vende como una, una, una cosa histórica de apoyo al Sa-- al Frente Polisario y a Argelia y tal, pero en el fondo-

No lo, no lo leamos, no lo leamos como un apoyo explícito, claro y de-- y, y declarado y biológico.