HIBAPRESS – Shafiq Anouri
The remarks of Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Atouf, regarding the UN Security Council Resolution 2797 on the Western Sahara dispute, have exposed the state of disarray and confusion that the military regime is experiencing due to successive diplomatic setbacks.
In a contradictory statement, Atouf said in an interview with Algeria International Channel that his country did not participate in the vote on the UN resolution on the Western Sahara dispute, because of its rejection of its request to delete the phrase that "genuine autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty could constitute the most viable solution". Despite his explicit acknowledgment that the latest UN resolution supported the autonomy initiative under Moroccan sovereignty to resolve the Sahara dispute, Atouf tried to give an interpretation far from reality, as he said that the UN resolution left the door open for other alternatives to resolving the dispute, which is untrue, as the Security Council explicitly affirmed that the settlement of the file would be within the framework of autonomy. Atouf began trying to exaggerate the amendments that were made to the project, which he said Morocco had tried to impose by force, knowing that the Kingdom was not even present in the discussions of the Security Council, before it reached the voting stage, which ended with its adoption without any opposing votes, with 11 votes in favor, 3 abstentions, and a non-participating country. Atouf did not stop at this, as he also tried to evade the fact that Algeria is a major party in the fabricated dispute, as stated in the new UN resolution, by saying that "the historical ambiguity that was intended to involve Algeria has ended", before continuing his fallacies by saying that Trump's advisor, Mesad Boulos, told him that autonomy is not the only framework for resolving the dispute. The most strange thing in Atouf's statements is his reference to a previous statement by Boulos, which was misunderstood, and Trump's advisor himself hurried to clarify it hours after it was issued, stressing that autonomy is the only applicable solution, which proves that Algeria lives outside the real world, whose countries increasingly and continuously recognize Morocco's sovereignty over its Sahara.
