Selon Reuters :
Notre décision est souveraine et irréversible, a déclaré le ministre des Affaires étrangères Salaheddine Mezouar au journalistes à Rabat.
Le gouvernement est déterminé à la coopération militaire avec l'ONU pour garantir le cessez le feu, a déclaré Jeudi le ministre des Affaires étrangères.
Les responsables de l'ONU ont demandé à plusieurs reprises au Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies à exprimer publiquement son soutien à Ban et la MINURSO, quelque chose que le corps des 15-nation a été incapable de faire jusqu'à jeudi soir à New York.
Rabat a accusé Ban d'abandonner la position neutre de l'ONU sur le conflit, et les fonctionnaires des Nations Unies nient, disant que les remarques du Secrétaire général étaient simplement une réponse émotionnelle après une rencontre avec les réfugiés sahraouis.
UPDATE 2-Morocco says W.Sahara decision 'irreversible', UN council 'concerned'
RABAT/UNITED NATIONS, March 24 (Reuters) - Morocco's decision to reduce United Nations staff at the Western Sahara mission is sovereign and irreversible, but the government is committed to military cooperation with the U.N. to guarantee the ceasefire there, the foreign minister said on Thursday.
Morocco this month ordered the U.N. to pull out dozens of civilian staffers and close a military liaison office for the MINURSO peacekeeping mission after criticizing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for using the word "occupation" to describe Morocco's annexation of the disputed territory.
"Our decision is sovereign and irreversible," Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar told reporters in Rabat.
Morocco took over most of the territory in 1975 from colonial Spain. That started a guerrilla war with the Sahrawi people's Polisario Front who say the desert territory on Africa's northwest belongs to them.
The U.N. brokered a ceasefire in 1991 and sent in its MINURSO mission, which consists of military and civilian staff, to monitor the ceasefire and organise a referendum over the region's future. But deadlock has delayed the vote for years.
U.N. officials had repeatedly urged the U.N. Security Council to publicly voice its support for Ban and MINURSO, something the 15-nation body was unable to do until late on Thursday in New York.
Rabat has accused Ban of dropping the U.N.'s neutral stance on the dispute, which U.N. officials deny, saying the secretary-general's remarks were merely an emotional response after meeting with Sahrawi refugees.
Notre décision est souveraine et irréversible, a déclaré le ministre des Affaires étrangères Salaheddine Mezouar au journalistes à Rabat.
Le gouvernement est déterminé à la coopération militaire avec l'ONU pour garantir le cessez le feu, a déclaré Jeudi le ministre des Affaires étrangères.
Les responsables de l'ONU ont demandé à plusieurs reprises au Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies à exprimer publiquement son soutien à Ban et la MINURSO, quelque chose que le corps des 15-nation a été incapable de faire jusqu'à jeudi soir à New York.
Rabat a accusé Ban d'abandonner la position neutre de l'ONU sur le conflit, et les fonctionnaires des Nations Unies nient, disant que les remarques du Secrétaire général étaient simplement une réponse émotionnelle après une rencontre avec les réfugiés sahraouis.
UPDATE 2-Morocco says W.Sahara decision 'irreversible', UN council 'concerned'
RABAT/UNITED NATIONS, March 24 (Reuters) - Morocco's decision to reduce United Nations staff at the Western Sahara mission is sovereign and irreversible, but the government is committed to military cooperation with the U.N. to guarantee the ceasefire there, the foreign minister said on Thursday.
Morocco this month ordered the U.N. to pull out dozens of civilian staffers and close a military liaison office for the MINURSO peacekeeping mission after criticizing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for using the word "occupation" to describe Morocco's annexation of the disputed territory.
"Our decision is sovereign and irreversible," Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar told reporters in Rabat.
Morocco took over most of the territory in 1975 from colonial Spain. That started a guerrilla war with the Sahrawi people's Polisario Front who say the desert territory on Africa's northwest belongs to them.
The U.N. brokered a ceasefire in 1991 and sent in its MINURSO mission, which consists of military and civilian staff, to monitor the ceasefire and organise a referendum over the region's future. But deadlock has delayed the vote for years.
U.N. officials had repeatedly urged the U.N. Security Council to publicly voice its support for Ban and MINURSO, something the 15-nation body was unable to do until late on Thursday in New York.
Rabat has accused Ban of dropping the U.N.'s neutral stance on the dispute, which U.N. officials deny, saying the secretary-general's remarks were merely an emotional response after meeting with Sahrawi refugees.
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