New York (United States), September 19, 2023 (SPS) – The Seventy-eighth Ordinary Session of the General Assembly opened today at the United Nations Headquarters in New York under the theme “Restoring trust and reviving solidarity: accelerating action on the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals for peace, prosperity, progress and sustainability for all”.
In his latest report on the “Question of Western Sahara”, dated 27 July 2023 and presented to the Seventy-eighth Ordinary Session of the General Assembly, the UN Secretary-General indicated that “the Special Political and Decolonisation Committee (Fourth Committee) of the General Assembly and the Special Committee on the Situation of the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples address the question of Western Sahara as a decolonisation issue”.
The present regular session of the General Assembly will be attended by a Saharawi delegation headed by the member of the National Secretariat and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Mohamed Sidati, as well as the also member of the National Secretariat, Coordinator with MINURSO and Representative of the POLISARIO Front at the United Nations, Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, and Mr. Brahim Mojtar Boyema’a, Ambassador Chargé d’Asia, and Mr. Malainin Salama, Adviser of the Polisario Front Representation to the United Nations.
The Saharawi delegation is expected to hold meetings with delegations of brotherly and friendly countries participating in the UN General Assembly session, in order to brief them on the latest developments related to the national cause and to exchange views on ways to strengthen bilateral relations and other issues of common interest.
