"First of all, we welcome the high sense of responsibility shown by the Security Council which did not let itself be fooled by all sorts of maneuvers, lies, blackmail and ultimatum, in turn, used by Algeria and the polisario to divert the attention of the Council from the strategic goal of the negotiations,” Morocco's permanent representative to the United Nation, Ambassador Mohamed Loulichki, told the press.
    Morocco, he added, "appreciates at its true value the significance" of news items issued by the President of the Security Council, Ambassador of Great Britain Mark Lyall Grant, following the Council’s consultations on the Sahara issue.
    While deploring the violence in Laayoune and Gdeim Izik, the Council specifically focused on acts of barbarism committed against the Moroccan security forces, who were disarmed and entered the camps to set free women and children taken as hostages by separatist elements sponsored by Algeria and the polisario, said Loulichki.
    In reiterating its support to the MINURSO and its mission, the Council confirmed the mandate of this mission. An action that was “welcomed by the kingdom,” he noted.
    The Council called on the parties to “further show political will to reach a political solution", a will that has always been demonstrated by Morocco since the Council has concluded the inapplicability of the late settlement plan, Loulichki underlined.
    In fact, the Ambassador went on, this “new call targets other parties, Morocco has made, since 2006, efforts that are recognized by the Council and which were crowned with the presentation, in 2007, of the autonomy initiative, as a negotiating framework for a realistic and lasting political solution to the dispute.”
    “Such a solution necessarily requires greater commitment from other parties in the ongoing negotiations and the adoption, for their part, of the spirit of compromise and realism required by Security Council’s resolutions and without which no process of negotiations can succeed,” he said.
    The sense of responsibility shown by the Security Council gives the lie to the campaign of disinformation and manipulation led by some Spanish media, Loulichi concluded said.