De Mistura’s blunder constitutes a serious deviation from legitimacy

Moroccan Centre for Strategic Studies and Research

Press release

There can be no doubt that the shocking and controversial action of the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Representative for the Moroccan Sahara, Mr. De Mistura, concerning the question of the territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Morocco, which aroused in him fanciful proposals going so far as to envisage the distribution of the Kingdom’s territory, is not surprising for an envoy lacking legitimacy, given that he had already taken the issue of territorial integrity off his agenda, by responding positively to an invitation from the leaders of South Africa to discuss this issue without any prior announcement or justification, outside all international agreements and in unprecedented violation of all the restrictions and decisions of the United Nations relating to the nature of his mission.

De Mistura’s blunder constitutes a serious deviation from the diplomatic norms governing such regional issues and conflicts, which are governed by the rigorous principles and mechanisms of the United Nations, which cannot in any way be called into question. These are submitted exclusively to the United Nations Security Council, as part of a UN process that goes beyond all outdated ideas. Thus, to confirm this undignified drift in the management of the “UN mediation” mission, it can be said that De Mistura’s deviation from legitimacy, particularly in the current context, is akin to an armed coup d’état no different from the methods of bandits.

Thus, whatever the justifications presented by the personal representative of the UN Secretary General, Mr De Mistura, regarding the visualisation of a partition scenario, negotiated outside of any legitimacy during his previous visit to discuss the Moroccan Sahara dossier in South Africa, in addition to his prior knowledge of the public hostile positions of this regime towards territorial integrity on the part of the corrupt enemies of the Kingdom, in dangerous coordination and planning with the renegade Algerian military regime, allow us to say the following:

We do not believe that Mr De Mistura is an incompetent international official, and he cannot be described as stupid or anything of the sort, it is certain that he understands the reality of this type of drift that is established by dubious calls and malicious initiatives, which certainly tend to try to dilute the main and exclusive missions of the United Nations in the management of conflicts and disputes.

And work to shuffle the deck and reorganise it according to Machiavellian plans akin to political and diplomatic swindling, with the aim of undermining the efforts of the United Nations and diluting its global role in conflict resolution.

In other words, Mr De Mistura, according to what has happened so far, has become an international mediator on probation, and a personal envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for the Moroccan Sahara issue, with a mission suspended until the situation is completely clarified and the secrets of his dubious actions are revealed.