UN / WESTERN SAHARA

STORY: UN / WESTERN SAHARA
TRT: 3:07
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 27 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior UN Headquarters

26 OCTOBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Various shots, Security Council votes
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. Wide shot, Omar Hilale walks to the stakeout
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Omar Hilale, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Morocco:
“This new resolution is an answer to Algeria and a new call to Algeria to develop and to clarify its position to help going towards the solution. Let's hope that wisdom will prevail in Nigeria and we can come back to the table, because there will be no solution without discussing all together and having compromised on the initiative of autonomy by Morocco.”
7. Wide shot, Xolisa Mabhongo walks to the stakeout
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Xolisa Mabhongo, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, South Africa:
“The mandate of MINURSO, created 30 years ago, remains the holding of a referendum in Western Sahara to unable its people to realize their right to self-determination.”
9. Close up, camera
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sidi Omar, Representative to the United Nations, Frente Polisario:
“The Security Council has once again failed to empower the mission with practical and concrete measures to enable to implement its mandate as established in Security Council resolution 690/ 1991. The continued inaction of the Security Council in the face of aggressive and persistent attempts by the state of Morocco to obstruct and undermine the mandate of MINURSO and to forcibly impose a fait accompli in the occupied territories of the Sahara, leaves the Saharawi people with no other option, but to continue and intensify the legitimate armed struggle to defend and enable our nonnegotiable right to self-determination and independence.”
11. Wide shot, Sidi Omar walks away from the stakeout

STORYLINE:

The Security Council approved a resolution renewing the mandate of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) until 31 October 2023.

The resolution had no votes against and two abstentions, from Kenya and Russia.

Following the vote today (27 October), the Permanent Representative to the United Nations of Morocco told journalists that “this new resolution is an answer to Algeria and a new call to Algeria to develop and to clarify its position to help going towards the solution.”

Omar Hilale said he hopes all parties “can come back to the table, because there will be no solution without discussing all together and having compromised on the initiative of autonomy by Morocco.”

Also at the stakeout, the Deputy Permanent Representative of South Africa, Xolisa Mabhongo, remembered that “the mandate of MINURSO, created 30 years ago, remains the holding of a referendum in Western Sahara to unable its people to realize their right to self-determination.”

The Representative to the United Nations of Frente Polisario, the nationalist liberation movement claiming Western Sahara, said “the Security Council has once again failed to empower the mission with practical and concrete measures to enable to implement its mandate as established in Security Council resolution 690/1991.”

According to Sidi Omar, “the continued inaction of the Security Council in the face of aggressive and persistent attempts by the state of Morocco to obstruct and undermine the mandate of MINURSO and to forcibly impose a fait accompli in the occupied territories of the Sahara, leaves the Saharawi people with no other option, but to continue and intensify the legitimate armed struggle to defend and enable our nonnegotiable right to self-determination and independence.”