The United Nations, in its official languages, issued UN General Assembly resolution 80/89, which it adopted at its current session without a vote on the question of Western Sahara under the agenda item relating to the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

The General Assembly took note of the report of the UN Secretary-General dated 31 July 2025 submitted to its current session, in which the Secretary-General affirmed that the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) of the General Assembly and the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples address the question of Western Sahara as a matter of decolonization.

The General Assembly also recalled all its resolutions and those of the UN Security Council on Western Sahara, including Security Council resolution 690 (1991) of 29 April 1991, by which the Security Council established, under its authority, the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

Through its resolution, the General Assembly reaffirmed the inalienable right of all peoples to self-determination and independence, in accordance with the principles set out in the Charter of the United Nations and General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 containing the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

It also renewed the affirmation of the United Nations’ responsibility toward the people of Western Sahara, and requested the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (the Committee of 24) to continue to consider the situation in Western Sahara as a Non-Self-Governing Territory subject to decolonization, and to submit a report on that to the General Assembly at its 81th session. It also called upon the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its next session a report on the implementation of this resolution.

In a statement to the media, Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, member of the National Secretariat, Representative of the Polisario Front to the United Nations and Coordinator with MINURSO, stressed that the renewed affirmation of the UN’s responsibility toward the Sahrawi people and the request that the Committee of 24 continue to consider the situation in Western Sahara, in accordance with paragraph 6 of the operative part of the resolution, clearly and unequivocally confirms the UN’s consistent position on the international status of the question of Western Sahara as a decolonization issue pursuant to Chapter XI of the UN Charter and the relevant General Assembly resolutions. Sahara Press Service