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Algeria, Mauritania & Other States

Algeria, Mauritania & Other States

Algeria

Letter dated 31 October  1975, from the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Exchange of messages between the President of Uganda and the President of Algeria concerning the Western Sahara

 

Letter dated 6 February 1976 from the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Memorandum from the Algerian Government on the question of Western Sahara

 

Letter dated 8 March 1976 from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Recognition by Madagascar, Burundi and Algeria of the SADR

 

Letter dated 28 November 1978 from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Concerning the Ad hoc Committee of the Organisation of African Unity

 

Letter dated 17 May 1988 from the Permanent Representatives of Algeria and Morocco to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

on the occasion of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries

 

Letter dated 21 February 2001 from the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

A/55/801

 

Letter dated 21 June 2001 from the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

S/2001/623

 

Letter dated 22 July 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

S/2002/807

 

Letter dated 24 April 2006 from the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

S/2006/258

 

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the national community abroad, dated 16 July 2021

denouncing that Morocco makes an amalgam between the question of the decolonization of Western Sahara and the domestic situation of the Kabylian region in Algeria
Published as United Nations official document S/2021/664
 

 

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the national community abroad, dated 18 July 2021

announcing the inmediate recall for consultations of Algeria’s ambassador to Rabat

 

 
Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the national community abroad, dated 24 August 2021

announcing the inmediate break of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Morocco following the continued and repeted breach of the four fundamental engagements accepted by Morocco in 1998 to restablish relations with Algeria, among them the support to a "just and definitive solution to the conflict of Western Sahara through a free and regular referendum of self-determination implemented without constraints [in French]

 

Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the national community abroad, dated 7 October 2021

Algeria takes note with interest of the decision of the United Nations Secretary-General to appoint Mr. Staffan de Mistura as his Personal Envoy for Western Sahara [in French]

 

Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the national community abroad, dated 31 October 2021

Algerian position following the adoption of Security Council Resolution 2602 concerning Western Sahara [in French]

 

Communiqué of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National community abroad, dated 19 January 2022

on the working visit, in the frame of his first regional tour, of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura [in French]

 

Statement of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the national community abroad, dated 11 June 2022

Algeria deplores and rejects the hasty and unfounded statements made yesterday on behalf of the European Union following the sovereign decision taken by Algeria to suspend the Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborlhood and Cooperation binding it to Spain [in French]

 

Letter dated 9 June 2022 from the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

In response to the accusations of the representative of Morocco dated 6 June 2022 (S/2022/455)

 

Letter dated 13 July 2022 from the Permanent Representative of Algeria to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

In response to the accusations of the representative of Morocco dated 23 June 2022 (S/2022/509)

 

Mauritania

Letter dated 30 May 1975, from the Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

[A/10101 - S/11707]

 

Letter dated 23 May 1979, from the Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

[A/34/276]

 

Letter dated 18 August 1979, from the Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Annexe I: Mauritano-sahraoui agreement, signed at Algiers on 10 August 1979
Annexe II: Declaration of 14 August 1979 by the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania

 

Letter dated 31 December 1979, from the Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

Annexe: Letter dated 5 December 1979, from the Permanent Representative of Mauritania to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

Other actors

South Africa

SADR Recognition

Letter of the President of South Africa His Excellency Thabo Mbeki to the king of Morocco Mohamed VI, August, 1, 2004

 

Judicial Procedures

Order of the High Court of South Africa (Eastern Cape division), in the case SADR-Polisario Front v. owner, charterers, master purchasers of the "Cherry Blossom", OCP, Phosphates de Boucraa, February 23, 2018

Judgement of the High Court of South Africa (Eastern Cape division), in the case SADR-Polisario Front v. owner, charterers, master purchasers of the "Cherry Blossom", OCP, Phosphates de Boucraa, June 15 2017

 

Official statements

Official Statement issued by the Department of International Relations and Cooperation
13 April 2020
 
Statement by the Permanent Mission of South Africa to the United Nations
containing the explication of the vote of the Security Council Resolution 2548 [S/2020/1075, Annex 23]
 
South Africa expresses its position regarding the Sahrawi Arab Democrati Republic (SADR) and the question of Western Sahara
Letter dated 12 November 2020 from the Permanent Representative of South Africa to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

 

USA

USA Treaties and official statements

Letter dated July 20, 2004, of Robert Zoellick, the United States Trade Representative, to the Honourable Joseph R. Pitts

concerning the Free Trade Agreement between the USA and Morocco and the status of Western Sahara

 

Statement by the Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, Kelly Craft

with the explication of the vote to Security Council Resolution 2548 [S/2020/1075, Annex 24]

 

Proclamation on Recognizing The Sovereignty Of The Kingdom Of Morocco Over The Western Sahara

4-10 December 2020 [published in the Federal Register]

 

Statement by the Secretary of State on "normalization" of Israel-Morocco relations and Trump proclamation

11 December 2020

 

Awarding of the Legion of Merit, Degree Chief Commander, by the USA President, Donald Trump, to the the kinf of Morocco Mohamed VI

15 January 2021

 

The Ministerial Conference in Support of the Autonomy Initiative Under Moroccan Sovereignty, chaired by USA and Morocco

15 January 2021

 

USA legislación

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012

Report to Congress on Steps being Taken by the Government of Morocco Related to Human Rights and the Western Sahara, following the Consolidated Appropiations Act, 2012

 

USA Reports

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012

Report to Congress on Steps being Taken by the Government of Morocco Related to Human Rights and the Western Sahara, following the Consolidated Appropiations Act, 2012

 

France

Position of France: support to inalenable right of the peoples of Western Sahara to to self-determination

Letter dated 22 December 1977, from the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

 

Position of France concerning the "normalization" of Israel-Morocco relations and the USA Presidente proclamation on Western Sahara

11 December 2020
 
 

Position of France concerning the "normalization" of Spain-Morocco relations and the statement of the President of the Spanish government on Western Sahara

21 March 2022

Russia

Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations

Statement on the vote of the Security Council Resolution 2548 [S/2020/1075, Annex 22]

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Comment on the developements in Western Sahara, November 13, 2020

 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Statement on the "recognition" by the President of the United States of America of Morocco's "sovereignty" on Western Sahara, December 12, 2020 [in Russian]

 

Germany

Auswirkungen des völkerrechtlichen Status der Westsahara auf das marokkanische Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht und das Asylverfahren in Deutschland

Working paper prepared by the Scientific Service of the German Parliament (Bundestag)
25.05.2016
[in German]

 

Völkerrechtliche Aspekte des Westsaharakonflikts

Working paper prepared by the Scientific Service of the German Parliament (Bundestag)
18.03.2019
[in German]

 

Foreign Minister Maas on Horst Köhler’s resignation as Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Western Sahara

23.05.2019 -
Press release

 

Position of Germany on the Guerguerat crisis

Statement by the Federal Foreign Office on the events in Western Sahara, 16 November 2020 [in German]

 

Position of Germany regarding the unilateral "recognition" by the USA of Morocco's "sovereignty" over the Western Sahara

Statement by Ambassador Christoph Heusgen in the Security Council VTC consultations on Western Sahara, 21 December 2020

 

Position of Germany regarding several issues concerning occupation and economic activities in Western Sahara

Response of the German Federal Government to a parliamentary question, 2 March 2021 [in German]

 

Joint declaration Germany-Morocco

Point 15: Germany's position concerning Western Sahara
25.08.2022 [in German]
 

Position of Germany regarding the question of Western Sahara

Response of the German Federal Government to a parliamentary question, 16 November 2022 [in German]

 

Position of Germany regarding economic activities carried in occupied Western Sahara

Response of the German Federal Government to a parliamentary question, 15 November 2023 [in German]

 

United Kingdom

Written answer of the Minister of State for the Middle East and North Africa to a parliamentary question

MC2021/26931
20 October 2021
 

Switzerland

Federal Court

Judgement dated 4 August 2021
1st Public Law Court
Acknowledgement of apatridia status for the people of Western Sahara because Switzerland does not recognize SADR nor Morocco's "sovereignty" on Western Sahara [in French]
 

Namibia

Letter dated 29 April 2019 from the Permanent Representative of Namibia to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council, on behalf of the members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) 

to convey its united support for the United Nations-led process on Western Sahara and the need for a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution, which provides for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara.

 

Letter dated 1 July 2020 from the Permanent Representative of Namibia to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

to convey a response to the letter from the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Morocco issued by the Security Council on 30 June 2020 (S/2020/621)

 

Mozambique

Official Communiqué of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of the Republic of Mozambique concerning the events occured at the TICAD meeting in Maputo

28 août 2017

[in Portuguese] [in English]

 

Tanzania

Ministry of foreign affairs and East African Cooperation

Press Release
26 October 2021
 

Timor-Leste

Letter dated 17 November 2020 from the Permanent Representative of Timor-Leste to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

 

Colombia

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Press Release concerning the Colombian position regarding the Western Sahara conflict [in Spanish]
30 october 2021

 

The contents of this page were updated on 06.06.2024.