New York (United Nations) 21 October 2025 (SPS) - At a time when the Security Council is preparing to consider the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), as a gesture of goodwill and in response to Security Council resolutions, including resolution 2756 (2024) that stressed again the importance of the two parties “expanding on their positions” in order to advance a solution, the President of the Sahrawi Republic (SADR) and Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr Brahim Ghali, addressed on Monday a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr António Guterres, containing the expanded Proposal of the Frente POLISARIO entitled “Proposal of the Frente POLISARIO for a mutually acceptable political solution that provides for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara and restores regional peace and stability”.
In his letter, the SADR President and Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO recalls that the Frente POLISARIO presented its Proposal to the UN Secretary-General on 10 April 2007, which was taken note of by the Security Council in its resolution 1754 (2007) and subsequent resolutions. The Proposal aims at enabling the Sahrawi people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination by means of a UN/AU-supervised referendum and conveying the readiness of the Sahrawi State to negotiate with the Kingdom of Morocco the establishment of strategic and mutually beneficial relations between the two countries.
The SADR President and Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO stresses that, by presenting its expanded Proposal, the Frente POLISARIO remains ready to share the “costs of peace” with the other party, if it has the political will to do the same, with a view to achieving a just, peaceful, and lasting solution, which will provide for the self-determination of the Sahrawi people and restore regional peace and stability in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and the objectives and principles of the Constitutive Act of the African Union.
He further underscores that the Frente POLISARIO firmly believes that a peaceful, just, and lasting solution to the conflict in Western Sahara in conformity with the relevant principles of international law is not only urgent, but it is also possible if there is a genuine political will to move away from status quo-based and unilaterally imposed solutions and to have the necessary political courage and farsightedness to work together to achieve comprehensive and sustainable peace and build a common future based on mutual respect, good neighbourly relations, and cooperation.
In this spirit, the SADR President and Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO reiterates the Frente POLISARIO’s readiness to enter into direct and serious negotiations with the Kingdom of Morocco, in good faith and without preconditions, under the auspices of the United Nations, based on the spirit and content of the expanded Proposal, with a view to achieving a just, peaceful, and lasting solution, which will provide for the self-determination of the Sahrawi people in conformity with the relevant UN resolutions and restore regional peace and stability.
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