The UN Security Council has reiterated the parameters it had set out in its resolutions 2414, 2440, 2468, and 2494 to achieve a final solution to the regional dispute over the Moroccan Sahara at its briefing on the Moroccan Sahara issue, held Thursday in accordance with resolution 2494, adopted on October 30, 2019, said diplomatic sources in the UN.

In order to achieve this solution, the Security Council members agreed that there is no other alternative than the Round Table Process, which brought together in Geneva in December 2018 and March 2019 Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, and the "Polisario", at the end of which the participants agreed to meet again in the same format.

This political solution can only be realistic, pragmatic, lasting, and based on compromise, which are the parameters already set out in the last resolutions and which unequivocally refer to the Moroccan autonomy initiative, deemed as serious and credible by the Security Council since 2007.

Ten African countries have opened Consulates General in the Moroccan Sahara. Other countries of the world have announced their intention to open consular posts in the region soon.

Algeria was the only state among the 193 UN member states to react to the opening of the Consulate General of the Union of the Comoros in Laayoune and to the opening of the Consulate General of Côte d'Ivoire in the same city by recalling its Ambassador to Abidjan.

According to the Security Council the opening of the Consulates General in the Moroccan Sahara, is considered as acts of sovereignty in accordance with international law and strictly within the framework of bilateral relations between Morocco and its African partners.