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New York,
20/06/2007 (SPS) POLISARIO Front and Morocco, who are undertaking
direct negotiations under the auspices of the UN in Manhasset to
search a political solution to the conflict of Western Sahara, will
meet in the second week of August, in the same place, Mr. Peter Van
Walsum, the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General declared.
The two days negotiations (Monday and Tuesday), which gathered the
two parties to the conflict, were recommended by the resolution 1754
adopted by the Security Council in April the 30th with a view to
reach a political solution that provides for the self-determination
of the Saharawi people.
The first round of the negotiations was moderated by the Personal
Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Mr. Peter Van Walsum, with the
participation of the Special Representative for the Western Sahara
and Coordinator of the MINURSO, Julian Harston.
The direct negotiations were also marked by the neighbouring
countries, Algeria and Mauritania, both represented as observing
countries as they are concerned with numerous questions related to
their geographical proximity and concerns about the conflict.
According to observers in Manhasset, the communiqué issued by the UN
after the negotiations shows that the two parties to the conflict
had reached a "relative success", and launched real process of
negotiations since the two parties agreed on a second round.
"With a fixed future round in the second week of August, that is to
say in a month time, that means that the negotiations process really
worked and started between two parties to the conflict clearly
defined and that the format proposed by Baker was respected since
the two neighbouring countries were informed about the progress of
the talk and were consulted each time I seemed necessary", a
diplomat close to the negotiations declared to the Algerian Press
Agency.
Observers think that, "even if one can reasonably think that
POISARIO Front and Morocco have been strictly attached to the
defence of their respective positions, which were the subject of
discussion on Monday and Tuesday, it is nonetheless also true that a
relative success was achieved since there will be continuity in the
negotiations and not an interruption". (SPS)
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