{"id":13866,"date":"2025-09-17T13:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=13866"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:50:47","slug":"attaf-receives-un-secretary-generals-envoy-for-western-sahara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=13866","title":{"rendered":"Attaf Receives UN Secretary-General\u2019s Envoy for Western Sahara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Algiers \u2013 The Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Community Abroad, and African Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, received on Tuesday evening the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, who is on an official visit to Algeria, according to a statement from the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement clarified that this visit is part of preparations for the upcoming UN Security Council meeting on the Western Sahara issue scheduled for October, during which the envoy will present his report on the efforts undertaken in line with the mandate entrusted to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this occasion, Minister Attaf reaffirmed Algeria\u2019s unwavering support for the efforts of the UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and his Personal Envoy Staffan de Mistura in seeking a just, lasting, and definitive solution to the Western Sahara conflict that guarantees the Sahrawi people\u2019s inalienable and timeless right to self-determination, in accordance with relevant UN resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attaf also underscored the central and vital role of the United Nations, stressing that all initiatives must fall under its framework to ensure direct and unconditional negotiations between the two parties to the conflict: the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion, the Minister emphasized Algeria\u2019s firm commitment to upholding the UN\u2019s decolonization principles, underlining the importance of the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) as a key expression of the international community\u2019s determination to complete the decolonization of Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Would you like me to expand this into a longer analytical piece highlighting Algeria\u2019s diplomatic stance against Morocco\u2019s occupation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algiers \u2013 The Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs, National Community Abroad, and African Affairs, Ahmed Attaf, received on Tuesday evening the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, who is on an official visit to Algeria, according to a statement from the ministry. The statement clarified that this &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13868,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13866\/revisions\/13868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}