The UN has refused for the moment to comment on the royal speech delivered Monday November the 6th on the 42nd anniversary of the Green March. Yesterday, during his daily press briefing, the Secretary-General spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, refused to answer a question saying «I'm not going to react to the King's speech». A cautious answer that aims at avoiding tension between the two parties after the sovereign's speech. On the Green March commemoration day, King Mohammed VI stressed in his address the conditions and the framework in which the upcoming negotiations should take place. «'No' to any solution to the Sahara question other than within the framework of Morocco's full sovereignty over its Sahara and the Autonomy Initiative, which has been declared serious and credible by the international community». The diplomatic tone adopted by Stéphane Dujarric did not prevent her from pointing out that «there is a mandate from the Security Council for the Personal Envoy as well as the… as well as MINURSO, and we will follow that mandate and continue our work». The spokesperson also seized the opportunity to deny the information reported by the Polisario Front's media outlets, which declared that that the Moroccan authorities had allegedly banned Horst Köhler, the UN Secretary-General Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, during his stay in Morocco, from visiting the MINUSRO's headquarters in Laayoune.
