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During the 64th working session of the UN General Assembly held in New York, many Heads of State and delegations have renewed, before the UN floor, their permanent support to the Kingdom of Morocco concerning the country’s territorial integrity and its efforts to reach a fair political solution to the conflict of the Sahara called the Western Sahara.
Hence, the Gambian President, Mr. Al Hadji Yahya Jammeh, has been seen in the official stand, strongly reasserting, Thursday evening, in New York, his “total support” to Morocco’s territorial integrity.
« My delegation, he emphasized, during his speech at the general debate of the 64th UN General Assembly session, renews its total support to the Kingdom of Morocco’s territorial integrity and sovereignty”. Concerning the Sahara issue, “ we will remain, he added, convinced that the Moroccan government’s proposal to grant a wide autonomy to the Sahara region based on the negotiations initiated by the UN Security Council, conducted and agreed upon by the parties, will lead to a final and peaceful solution of the conflict”.
As for the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic, Mr. Carlos Morales Troncos, expressing his opinion about the Sahara issue, he has reiterated the unchanged position of his country, which supports Morocco’s position and the Security Council’s efforts aiming at the conclusion of a political agreement between the parties in conflict 
Questioned by the MAP journalists, at the end of his meting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mr. Taib Fassi Fihri, the Dominican Minister of Foreign Affairs has stated what follows: “We are with Moroccans. And Morocco knows that it can count on us in all forums”.

The return of Sheïkh  Ahmadou Ould Souilem, Head of Oulad Dlim Tribe and founding member of the Polisario Front, is itself an important event as it concerns the return of the child prodigy to his homeland. The event is still more important, taking into consideration the place he occupies and his being a public figure on the Polisario leading and tribal scene and also taking into consideration the international context and the invitation of the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Mr. Christopher Ross for an informal meeting in Vienna between the parties in conflict, in the presence of the different parties affected by the regional importance of the Saharan conflict.
The rallying of this figurehead of the Polisario, independent and respected by all for his strictness and integrity, is the logical result of a long series of the rallying of leaders, senior executives and high ranked militaries of the Polisario to the Sherifian Kingdom, the forgiving and merciful. It confirms one and a unique truth: the Morracanity of the Sahara and the permanent existence of historical, religious, cultural and socio-economic links between the historical Morocco and the Moroccan Sahrawi tribes.

Minister-Counsellor to Mohammed Abdelaziz and Founding member of the Polisario, Ahmeddou Ould Souilem has sent an unequivocal  message to the world: the Polisario Front, one of the only guerrilla movements still existing in the world, ersatz of the cold war, is going to its end. In fact, while the whole Moroccan people was celebrating the ten years of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI accession to the throne, on Thursday 30th July, the celebration was crowned with the audience granted by His Majesty to Ahmeddou Ould Souilem, confirming the latter’s attachment to his King and his mother country, and showing clearly that the Sahara artificial conflict, fuelled by Algeria in order to establish its strategy of regional domination, is undergoing its last moments, final jumps of a history which roots go back to the pinnacle of the Marxist and Leninist movements, during and at the end of the sixties. In fact, the Polisario Front has just known the bitter side which has left speechless the very voluble press agency of the movement. At the time when the informal negotiations would start, under the UNO auspices, this defection of one of the Polisario Front leaders brings up the problem of legitimacy of the present guerrilla leaders. In fact, Ahmeddou Ould Souilem is also the uncontested chief of a tribe and enjoys an important aura, taking into consideration the position of his late father Souilem Ould Abdallah who died in 1999 and who was member of the Sahrawi Jamaa (community), and chief of the powerful tribe of Ouled Dlim.

In response to Mr. Christopher Ross’s call, the UN Mediator, Morocco has expressed, via its Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, its availability to « positively join » the informal negotiations, set forth with the Polisario Front, based on the Sahara autonomy plan, proposed by the Kingdom, since April 2007.
It should be reminded that Morocco had expressed, last May, its « keen satisfaction »about the 1871 Resolution of the UN Security Council about the Sahara, unanimously adopted by all the members of the Council. Consequently, it is estimated in Rabat, that the UN emissary’s mission is part of a « well defined mission » aiming at the implementation of the last Security Council Resolution. An assertion reiterated by the head of the Moroccan diplomacy, Mr. Taib Fassi-Fihri, during a joint press meeting in Rabat with the UN Mediator.
« The Security Council, as underlined by the Moroccan diplomacy source, has confirmed the centralization of the negotiations process and has refused to yield to the political blackmail methods, to the unscrupulous practices of harassment and instrumentalization accompanying them and to the attempts to distort negotiations’ fundamental way”.

Based upon the last report of the UN Secretary General, the Security Council has prolonged, Thursday April 30, 2009, with a year, the mandate of the United Nations Mission organizing a referendum in the Western Sahara (Minurso), in charge mainly of organizing a self-determination referendum and monitoring the cease fire between Morocco and the Polisario Front.
In this unanimously adopted resolution, the Council calls once more the involved parties “to continue to show a political will and to work within a favorable dialogue atmosphere in order to start more intense and more substantial negotiations.” It considers that “realism and compromise spirit” should motivate negotiations to reach a final settlement for the Western Sahara issue. For its part and while reaffirming that its sovereignty over the Western Sahara should be recognized, Morocco is ready to dialogue with the other party, based upon the internal autonomy plan it has presented and which has been welcomed by the international community, while the Polisario Front persists in opting for a final status of the territory that has to be decided during a hypothetical referendum including independence as an option.
This irredentist and unrealistic position, head on supported by Algeria, is not based on any historical or legal basis, as the self-determination principle is not exclusive to the unique right of peoples to decide by their own, beyond the obligation of the nations’ territory integrity, recognized by the international community.