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In W. Sahara, UN Won't Confirm Crackdown, Morocco Letter, Correl Links
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, April 15 -- The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, MINURSO, which has yet to hold any referendum, gets reviewed this month in the UN Security Council, with the UN's ambiguous position on (not) including human rights monitoring in the mission's mandate and on exploitation of natural resources once again coming to the fore.
On (the lack of) human rights monitoring, on April 15 Inner City Press asked UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric:
Inner City Press: there are reports and I wanted to know whether you or MINURSO [United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara] know if they are true of a, quote, Moroccan crackdown on demonstrations in [inaudible] directed at the idea of there being a human rights monitoring mechanism so it…
Spokesman Dujarric: We will ask our colleagues in MINURSO.
But nine hours later, no answer, no information. No monitoring.
Meanwhile, Inner City Press has become aware that Morocco wrote to the Security Council; Inner City Press has uploaded the letter here.
On April 10 Inner City Press obtained from multiple sources the advance copy of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's report on the MINURSO mission. We published it in full here and embedded below (unlike others who try to remove things from the Internet, like here).
On April 13, Ban's spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the report "speaks for itself;" Inner City Press asked how that applies to Paragraph 62 merely reciting Morocco's and the Frente Polisario's positions for and against oil drilling at this time. Video here.
Dujraric said he had "nothing to add;" he also said that enovy Christopher Ross will help provide more details. On the record?
Meanwhile, with regard to claims about then-Office of Legal Affairs chief Hans Corell's 2002 letter, UN Doc. S/2002/161, here is a link to one of his publications since, here: "The Responsibility of the UN Security Council in the Case of Western Sahara.” In: International Judicial Monitor, Winter 2015 Issue."
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Morocco's April 13, 2015 Letter to the UN Security Council on MINURSO / Western Sahara
In W. Sahara, UN Won't Confirm Crackdown, Morocco Letter, Correl Links
By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, April 15 -- The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, MINURSO, …