The latest HRW report on the Sahara is "selective" (expert) 1/13/2009
The latest report of the international NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) on the Sahara is selective and ignores the case of children of Tindouf camps expatriates in Cuba and the Moroccans expelled from Algeria, said the Director of Management Systems International for Morocco, a U.S. consultancy firm. The report also presents an important methodological problem," said the expert, Lahcen Haddad
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Family-visit exchange beneficiaries decide to stay in Morocco 1/12/2009
A Sahrawi woman and her two children, beneficiaries of the HCR-led family visit exchange between Morocco's Southern Provinces, the Sahara, and the Polisario-run Tindouf camps has decided to stay in the southern city of Dakhla to put an end to years of suffering in the camps of Tindouf, southwestern Algeria.
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Mr. Fassi-Fihri hopes the next round of negotiations to be "more fruitful" 1/12/2009
The autonomy plan for of the southern provinces presented by Morocco aims to "promote the emergence of a compromise", reiterated the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Mr. Taib Fassi-Fihri, regretting that despite efforts of the Kingdom, described as "credible and serious" by the international community and the Security Council, Algeria and the Polisario "have never expressed" the desire for openness and realism. "
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Ross's mandate based on the progress made so far in the Sahara issue 1/9/2009
The newly appointed personal envoy of the UN Secretary General for the Sahara, Christopher Ross, will find Morocco as available as it has always been, Communication Minister, Spokesman for the Government, Khalid Naciri affirmed on Thursday.
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US urges parties to continue to negotiate in spirit of realism 1/9/2009
The United States urged the parties involved in the Sahara issue to "continue to negotiate without preconditions and in good faith with a spirit of realism and compromise toward a just, lasting and mutually-acceptable political solution" of the Sahara issue, hailing the Secretary-General's announcement of Ambassador Christopher Ross as his Personal Envoy to the Sahara.
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