Sahara-Talks
Morocco Post \ Washington, DC
Quoting Reuters the Canadian Newspaper “Montreal Gazette” published an article titled “Morocco, Polisario seek to revive Sahara talks, Mediator hopes informal format will work better” the article came on the eve of the informal talks between all concerned parties in Winchester, NY.
Patrick Worsnip wrote:
(( The United Nations will try to nudge Morocco and Western Sahara’s independence movement back to serious negotiations on the future of the resource-rich territory at informal talks starting Wednesday.
More than three decades after their conflict started, Rabat and the Polisario Front introduced new proposals three years ago but formal negotiations broke down after less than a year. A bid to revive them last year was held up by fresh tensions.
In an attempt to get them back on track, negotiators from the two adversaries will meet over two days at a secluded private conference center north of New York City with UN mediator Christopher Ross.
“There have been tensions, without a doubt. However, both sides have told me they are prepared to come to this round in a productive, serious frame of mind, and I expect they will,” Ross told reporters in New York.
No major breakthroughs are expected on the substance of the dispute, but the world body is hoping to pave the way for full-scale negotiations to resume.
Morocco annexed the northwest African territory in 1975 and is now offering it autonomy, but Polisario, which fought a guerrilla war until 1991, demands a referendum on the future of the former Spanish colony with independence as one option.”
DISCUSSIONS NOT SPEECHES
This week’s talks will follow a format devised by Ross, a former U.S. diplomat, who organized informal discussions of just three officials per side in Austria last August to improve the atmosphere and work on confidence-building measures.
Small teams of negotiators met in the town of Duernstein, west of Vienna, and praised the session as “frank” and “deep.” UN officials believe those talks promoted “discussions instead of speeches” and re-established a respectful relationship between the sides.
At Duernstein, Morocco and Polisario agreed to discuss with the UN refugee agency overland visits between Sahrawis in Western Sahara and those exiled in camps in Algeria, and to hold confidence-building meetings between Sahrawis and Morocccans. Nothing has yet come of either agreement.
Diplomats said the emphasis this week was likely to shift to the parties’ core plans for Sahara.
“The main purpose here is to get the parties to engage seriously on the two proposals,” said one senior diplomat who follows the issue. But he added, “Progress is likely to be very slow.”
Morocco’s team is expected to be led by Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri and Polisario’s by Mahfoud Ali Beiba, speaker of Polisario’s parliament-in-exile, UN officials said.))
Polizario are coming to New York to wear Jean and eat American Hamburger, they are not coming for a serieus talk to resolve Western Sahara Moroccan'issues. Christopher Ross should shift location of negotiation from New York to somewhere in Africa,and good place is Somalia or Darfur, than Polizario will be more serieus to talk.
As long Algeria is part of this conflict, the outcome will be a failure negotiation, because Algeria didn't know the backgound,the history,the culture, the value, the behavior, the environment of Sahrawi as Morocco did.
Yes If
alllllll side a lot of l
stop doing politic including the USA, France, Spain and the Kingdom itself
the Mvt called the polizario will need some water…
Politic that kill by time
we beleived and we will die for owr country the Kingdom but let me tell you this if no sahara will be no Kingdom MORE they will be no Algeria itself
this is not a no respect the Algeria or the Kingdom or to USA or France or spain
this is real a risky game where every one will lost except the no state player entities
you know
i am trying how state actor kill them self and their people and other state and other people for no thing
increase debt from the west side people and puaverty from the other side who hapened to be muslim
so how can they or we can do it…