For the better part of my adult life, I’ve watched the Western Sahara issue unfold not as a distant diplomatic squabble, but as an enduring human story, refugees in desert camps, families separated by borders, political deadlock that lasted decades. When the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2797 in late 2025, it marked one of the clearest shifts in tone and substance in years. But turning a resolution into human wellbeing is not automatic.

The adoption of Resolution 2797 by the United Nations Security Council on October 31, 2025, marks a pivotal moment in the longstanding Western Sahara dispute. By establishing Morocco's autonomy plan as the "basis" for any political solution, the UN text confirms a profound shift in international perspectives on this issue. For the first time, the option of autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty has emerged as the central path forward, effectively sidelining the independence referendum.

Nearly 40 countries reaffirmed today their support for Morocco’s full sovereignty over its Sahara during the 57th session of the Human Rights Council at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

“There is a community in Algeria, the Kabyle one, which has been waiting for self-determination for over 150 years and which you are terrorizing, imprisoning and depriving of its freedom and its most legitimate right,” Morocco’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the UN, Omar Hilale, fired at Algeria at the C24 seminar currently being held in Caracas, Venezuela.

M’hamed Abba, elected member of the Regional Council of Laâyoune Sakia El Hamra highlighted, before the United Nations Committee of 24 (C-24), the large-scale social and economic development underway in the Southern provinces of Morocco under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.

The Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted, on Wednesday, a resolution reiterating its support for the political process carried out under the exclusive auspices of the United Nations for the settlement of the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara and reaffirming the final burial of the referendum.

Bali - Exercising several rights of reply to the provocative and tendentious statements made by Algeria's permanent representative to the UN, Amar Benjama, at the annual seminar of the UN Committee of 24 (C24), Morocco's ambassador to the international organization, Omar Hilale, stressed that the decolonization of the Moroccan Sahara has been definitively sealed since 1975, under the Madrid Agreement.

Last Wednesday in New York, the UN Security Council held closed-door consultations on the issue of the Moroccan Sahara, as part of the regular briefings provided for in resolution 2654, adopted by the Council on October 27 last year.