UN to replace Western Sahara mediator
29/08/2008
UN mediator Peter van Walsum quit his job as personal envoy of the UN secretary-general for Western Sahara, press reports quoted the Dutch diplomat as telling Spanish daily El Pais on Thursday (August 28th). As parties prepare for the fifth round of negotiations this fall, the new envoy "will be appointed soon", MAP quoted UN spokeswoman Marie Okabe as saying. The previous four rounds in New York failed to reach progress and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has complained that the two sides are not negotiating, but merely restating their starting positions, Reuters noted.
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zorglupos Posted 2008-09-08
Everybody knows that no such thing as international law exists. Show me a regulation to which reference should be made! Not even the slightest volume has been written. In the end, it is survival of the fittest—it hangs over us in one form or another, but that is the sad truth. In my opinion, Morocco needs to begin to tell its visitors: “This cannot be on the agenda. If you have something else to discuss, then you are welcome.” If Algeria wants to make war on the Moroccan people, for which the support acts as a distraction to their own interests, then they can get on with it.
RAMDANE Posted 2008-09-10
So long as the military junta in power is dictating what the Polisario should do and say, we will never get out of this abyss.
Anonymous Posted 2008-09-15
It is a shame to say that there is no international law.
RACHID Posted 2008-09-18
Algeria will never go to war with Morocco because of the rotten Polisario. We are not ungrateful to Morocco: they indeed helped us to become independent just like they did in Tunisia and elsewhere.
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