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"An independent Western Sahara is not an attainable goal," 4/22/2008
Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Sahara, Peter Van Walsum, said on Monday, calling on the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to recommend to the parties involved in the dispute to resume negotiations and take into account the political and international reality.
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Late Bourguiba considered the Sahara issue "an artificial problem" 4/21/2008
The former President of Tunisia, late Habib Bourguiba, considered the dispute created around the Sahara issue as "an artificial problem," said former Tunisian Minister of the Interior, Mr. Taher Belkhouja. In a testimony published daily by the Tunisian newspaper "Al-chourouq" covering relationships between three Maghreb countries (Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria), Mr. Belkhouja said that Algeria has sought "to impose and reinforce such an entity" after the creation of the Polisario Front and its location on Algerian soil. Since then, Algeria "has consistently campaigning for the organization and recognition of a fake political entity," he added, noting that Morocco "has always worked to cope with these developments"
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Mr. Benmoussa: autonomy initiative allows getting the Sahara issue out of stagnation 4/21/2008
"Everyone is more than ever convinced that it is impossible to reach a final settlement of the Sahara issue without Algeria's support to the ongoing negotiations process," the Minister of Interior said on Saturday.
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Fillon reiterates France's support to Sahara autonomy initiative 4/18/2008
Visiting French Prime minister François Fillon reiterated, here Thursday, France's support to the Moroccan proposal to grant substantial autonomy to its southern provinces -the Sahara.
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The Guardian: The decision of Seychelles to withdraw its recognition of the SADR is courageous 4/17/2008
The decision of the Government of Seychelles to withdraw its recognition of the so-called RASD is a "courageous action" which should be welcomed, "said Nigerian newspaper The Guardian, in its last Sunday issue. According to the newspaper, African history analysts "have always clearly maintained that Western Sahara is part of the Kingdom of Morocco", pointing out that external forces have forced African countries to recognize the RASD, which led Morocco to withdraw from the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union). The newspaper said that the Republic of Seychelles has stressed in a letter on March 18 to the commission of the African Union,
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