Two diplomats from the French Embassy in Rabat visited Laayoune this week. On Monday, July 8, the delegation visited the headquarters of the council of Laayoune-Sakia El Hamra region and the city council.
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MINURSO is not the oldest UN peacekeeping mission. That distinction belongs to UNTSO, the peacekeeping operation headquartered in Jerusalem and UNMOGIP based in disputed Kashmir along the India/Pakistan border region.
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Recent news items reporting that the US delegation at the United Nations is once again promoting language that would establish some kind of human rights monitoring mechanism as part of the MINURSO mandate have left me scratching my head in utter disbelief.
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The New draft resolution on the Sahara that the Security Council is expected to adopt at the end of April is like the previous one.
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It seems that Morocco is dissatisfied over the latest developments at the Security Council regarding the Sahara issue. This is apparent from the statement made lately by spokesman for the Government Mustapha El Khalfi who said that Foreign Affairs minister Nasser Bourrita has briefed the Govt....
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced on Wednesday the appointment of Major General Zia Ur Rehman of Pakistan as Force Commander of the MINURSO.
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Subversive elements of the Polisario Front have openly threatened the peacekeepers of the UN mission in Western Sahara, “MINURSO”, deployed in the region of Guerguarat.
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A Tindouf camp family has been sitting in in front the MINURSO Team-site in Mijek, a small town located east of the Moroccan Wall, to protest against the «unfair» distribution of aid in the camps.
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So, MINURSO has been renewed for another six months and Horst Kohler will hold a meeting in Geneva in December. Does anyone expect Algeria or the Polisario to have an epiphany before gathering around the table with Morocco and Mauritania in Switzerland? Not very likely.
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The sit-in held by three Sahrawi merchants in front of the MINURSO's headquarters in Mijek has been suspended. The decision was taken after the intervention of the UN mission and the Secretary-General Envoy to Western Sahara Horst Köhler.
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Three Sahrawis have been sitting-in in front of the MINURSO’s headquarters in Mijek since Wednesday to protest against the Polisario and Algeria. Their action is embarrassing to the Front, according to Mustapha Salma Ould Sidi Mouloud.
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On October the 12th, Brahim Ghali invited the Security Council to let MINURSO organize a referendum in Western Sahara. Two days later, Bachir Mustapha Sayed commented on Ghali’s statement, criticizing the MINURSO’s work.
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The UNSG report to the Security Council denounces the Polisario's hampering of MINURSO actions, notably the activities of the Special Representative and the free movement of the Mission's military observers.
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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres asked the Security Council to extend for one year the mandate of the UN mission in the Sahara (MINURSO) in order to back the negotiation process.
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A few weeks before the adoption of a new resolution, extending the mandate of the MINURSO, the United States warns Morocco and the Front against the situation in the Sahara.
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I have heard a lot of oddly crazy options over the last 18 months about the future of MINURSO, the United Nations peacekeeping mission for Western Sahara. I say oddly crazy because some of them I heard directly from acknowledged experts on North African affairs.
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The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) has published a communiqué on the UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy Horst Köhler’s latest visit to the Sahara.
