ALGIERS – France position regarding Western Sahara is "that defended by UN," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius affirmed Monday in Algiers.
"Our position regarding Western Sahara issue is that advocated by the United Nations," Fabius told a news conference Press held in France ambassador residence.
"We are in line of the international legality as defended by the UN," said the French minister.
Unanimously adopted, on April 24, Resolution 2204 states that the UN Security Council "calls on the parties (Polisario Front and Morocco) to continue negotiations under the auspices of UN Secretary General, without preconditions and in good faith to achieve a just, lasting and mutually acceptable, which allows determination of the people of Western Sahara in the context of arrangements consistent with the purposes and principles of the UN Charter ".
The resolution, which was extended by one year the mandate of the UN Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), calls, furthermore, the Moroccan authorities to "improve the situation of human rights" in the occupied Saharawi territories.
Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa. It is considered non-autonomous territory by the UN since 1966.
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