Algeria recently said through its official news agency that the final declaration of the forty-seventh meeting of the Executive Committee of the Union of Councils of the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which Algeria hosted on March 13-14, includes support for the "self-determination referendum" in the Moroccan Sahara.
The Algerian News Agency added that the member states talked in the meeting about what it called the existence of a "war" in the Sahara region.
The text of the statement stated that "The countries of the Union expressed their concern about the return of the war between Morocco and the Polisario Front, and stressed the need for the two parties to the conflict to return to direct negotiations without preconditions under the leadership of the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Staffan de Mistura and the support of the African Union, in order to implement Security Council resolutions and organize The referendum for the self-determination of the Saharawi people as a contribution to peace and stability in North Africa."
In its news report, the Algerian agency talked about the existence of a "state of war between Morocco and the Polisario", which is what Algeria is trying to convince the world of the existence of a war in the Sahara. It also talked about the "two parties to the conflict" considering that the matter is limited to Rabat and the separatist front, and that Algeria is not a party to it.
However, by returning to the text of the declaration published on the official website of the organization, it is confirmed that it does not include these words at all.
The maximum expression used in the declaration of the organization related to border disputes between states is “emphasizing the need to respect the sovereignty, stability, and integrity of each member state of the union in accordance with international legitimacy,” and calling for “the unification of the Islamic nation and avoidance of sectarian, factional and ethnicity.”
By reading the text in full, it becomes clear that he did not address the issue of the Sahara at all. It also urged in another place to "continue and intensify efforts to find a permanent and peaceful solution to the conflicts between brothers in our Islamic world."
