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Posted by Brian Kenety on 04 February 2010 09:18:08 PM

 

The parties in the dispute over the status of Western Sahara, where fighting broke out between Morocco and the Frente Polisario after Spain’s colonial administration ended in 1976, have agreed to a U.N. proposal to hold their next set of informal talks from Feb. 10-11 in the United States. The U.N. Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) has been entrusted with monitoring the ceasefire reached in September 1991 and organizing a referendum on self-determination. Morocco has presented a plan for autonomy, while the Frente Polisario says the territory’s final status should be decided in a referendum on self-determination that includes independence as an option. (U.N. News Service)

 

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