The United Nations has categorically denied, on Tuesday, the "rumors" about the appointment by the UN Secretary-General of a new Personal Envoy for the Sahara, saying that these allegations are false and baseless.
Rabat – The United Nations has categorically denied, on Tuesday, the “rumors” about the appointment by the UN Secretary-General of a new Personal Envoy for the Sahara, saying that these allegations are false and baseless.
” I wanted to say that there were some rumors that the Secretary General has made a decision on the appointment of his next Personal Envoy for Western Sahara. This is not true and baseless,” said Farhan Haq, Deputy spokesperson of the UN Secretary-General.
“The process to select the Personal Envoy for Western Sahara is ongoing. The Secretary General looks forward to appointing an Envoy as soon as the process is completed.,” said the Deputy spokesperson during his daily briefing in New York.
The statement came after a number of news outlets close to the Polisario Front claimed that the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterrez, had appointed former Australian Foreign Minister, Julie Isabel Bishop, as his new Personal Envoy for Western Sahara.
The position of UN personal envoy to the Western Sahara has been vacant since the latter part of last May when now former UN envoy Horst Kohler announced his resignation for “health reasons.”
