Bir Lehlou — President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has indicated, in a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mr. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, that it is "a stain" on the credibility of the United Nations that MINURSO remains the only UN peacekeeping mission without a capacity to monitor human rights,
"It is a significant stain on the credibility of the United Nations that MINURSO remains the only UN peacekeeping mission in the world established since 1978, and the only one anywhere on the African continent, which is operating without a capacity to monitor human rights," stated President Mohamed Abdelaziz, in his letter to Mr. Al Hussein, a copy of which obtained by SPS.
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