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Tripoli(Libya) Sept 1,2009 (SPS) - The African Union (AU) expressed Monday in Tripoli support to United Nations' ongoing efforts to overcome the deadlock of the settlement of Western Sahara conflict that has reached.
heads of African States and Governments , met in a special session to address conflicts in Africa, reiterated their support to UN Security Council's relevant resolutions calling for direct negotiations between the two parties (the Polisario Front and Morocco) without preconditions, with a good faith to reaching a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution allowing Saharawi people's self-determination in accordance with UN Charter.
In his report to this special session, the chairman of the AU Commission, Jean Ping said that the Western Sahara conflict is ''still at an impasse,” because, he said, polarization’ of the positions of the parties and, more recently, because of Morocco's insistence that its autonomy proposal is the only basis for negotiations with the Polisario, although the Security Council of the UN has noted the proposals of the two parties, as submitted in April 2007.''
The Security Council adopted last April 30 a resolution calling on both parties to continue negotiations without preconditions and in good faith to reach a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution, to appeal to self- determination of the people of Western Sahara.
Mr. Ping, who described as ‘‘encouraging’’ the last meeting in Austria between the Polisario Front and Morocco, has advocated, accelerating the process of finding a final settlement of this conflict that lasts for decades and detriment not only the Saharawi people, but also regional cooperation as necessary in the Maghreb''. (SPS)
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