The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) became “hostage to the Moroccan authorities,” unable even “to report on the human rights situation in the territory, unlike any other UN peace-keeping mission,” said Kamal Fadel, Western Sahara’s representative to Australia and the Pacific
The Fórum Canario Saharaui, following the recent visit of Staffan de Mistura, special envoy of the United Nations (UN) for Western Sahara, to the Tindouf camps, has issued an official statement in which it openly criticises the "double standards" of Algeria with regard to the conflict over the Saharawi territory and the resolutions of the United Nations and in which it also rejects the "double discourse" of the Polisario Front, an ally of the Algerian country, in which it shows itself ready to collaborate with the UN itself, but at the same time criticises it for "lack of forcefulness".