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Morocco urges UN attention on situation in western Sahara

Xinhua, February 25, 2017 Adjust font size:

Morocco has urged the United Nations to take the necessary steps to maintain ceasefire in Western Sahara, the Moroccan Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

The Moroccan king Mohammed VI held a call phone with the UN Secretary General Antonio Gueterres during which he warned the UN chief of the "dangerous" situation in Guergarate near the borders with Mauritania because of "the repeated incursions by Polisario' armed elements and their acts of provocations ", the ministry said in a statement.

"These acts had started a month before Morocco's readmission to the African Union with the aim to undermine this process," the statement added.

The statement noted that Morocco have notified many times the UN monitoring body, known as MINURSO, of the Polisario violations.

The situation in Guerguarate represents "serious threat to ceasefire and undermine regional stability," the statement warned.

Last September, the UN warned that the situation "remains tense in the Guerguarate area of Western Sahara inside the buffer strip."

Morocco started in late August building a road in the area, saying that it will help fighting smuggling, human and drug-trafficking and terrorism. Endit