Finally, Moroccan diplomacy has managed to prevail over the Sahrawi people’s ambitions for self-determination. Yet, this fact becomes insignificant when faced with the realpolitik imposed by a system that gets its legitimacy from the principle of the strongest.
The UN Security Council that adopted on April 25 a new resolution (2099) reaffirming the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination left some Sharawis unsatisfied and unhappy. Algerians who still believe in this right were also disappointed, first and foremost because it does not expand the prerogatives of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (Minurso) to monitor human rights in the region — something that the Polisario front constantly campaigns for.
