The UN, the Non-Self-Governing Territories and the permanent SC members | Porunsaharalibre | @x1saharalibre
PUSL.- Six months away from the End of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2011 – 2020) there seems to be no end to the plight of 17 non-autonomous territories (NTA), occupied by foreign powers[1].
Today, 17 NTA, remain on the agenda of the C-24 (UN Special Committee on Decolonization). States which have or assume responsibilities for the administration of such Territories are called administering Powers.
Western Sahara and Tokelau are the only NAT where the occupier are not a permanent member of the Security Council. Tokelau’s administrative power is New Zealand.
Western Sahara is not only the biggest and most populated NAT It also the only one with two administrators. Moroccan occupation who is the de facto administrator and Spain who continues to be administrator de jure, since it never finished the decolonization process. Spain abandoned the territory in 1975 declaring that henceforth it thought itself exempt from any responsibility of any international nature in connection with the administration of the Territory but allowing Morocco and Mauritania to take over in a shameful illegal treaty. Western Sahara is also the only country in Africa pending decolonization.
The United Kingdom is administrative power of 10 NAT (Anguilla; Bermuda; British Virgin Islands, Falkland Islands/Malvinas; Montserrat, Saint Helena; Turks and Caicos Islands; Gibraltar; Pitcairn) all of them are listed since 1946.
United States is administrative power of United States Virgin Islands; American Samoa and Guam, also listed since 1946.
France is administrative power of French Polynesia and New Caledonia also listed since 1946. New Caledonia, however, will have its second independence referendum on 6 September 2020.
So how can it be expected that 6 months from the deadline for decolonization any progress will be made? In fact how can the UN justify the stalemate of the process for 75 years now?
Three of the five Security Council permanent members who have veto power (the organism and countries with more power inside the UN) are administrative powers themselves and have no interest in concluding the decolonization.
The process is unfair from the starting point. And since it does not work, independence of most countries has been achieved with immense bloodshed and suffering which could be avoided if the UN would fulfill its role.
The strategy is clearly to let time pass in order to gain the acceptance of the occupation as an accomplished fact with no solution.
The Referendum for Western Sahara
How can the Saharaui people trust in an Organization which did nothing but lie to them since 1991? The referendum for independence was promised and was signed by Morocco and Polisario Front under the auspices of the UN and the African Union. The years pass, Morocco refuses to accept any solution towards independence, violates the cease fire, violates human rights in the territory, pursues an apartheid politic, tortures, rapes, sodomizes, detains, robes the Saharawi people and introduces settlers without so much as a Soundbite by the UN.
The current configuration of the UN and its mechanisms have been completely inadequate to solve the Western Sahara conflict because there is no political will and due the alliances that Morocco established with some of the Security Council permanent members.
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[1] In 2010, the General Assembly adopted resolution 65/119 declaring the period 2011-2020 the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism and calling upon Member States to intensify their efforts to continue to implement the plan of action for the Second International Decade and to cooperate with the C-24 in updated it as necessary, with a view to using it as the basis for a plan of action for the Third International Decade.
Reports of the Secretary-General on the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism: A/70/73 and A/70/73/Add.1 (in 2015
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