Ban says Sahara issue among UN top priorities 8/29/2007
United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon underlined, here Tuesday, that the settlement of the Sahara issue, which opposes Morocco to the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists, is among the priorities in his mandate.
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Chinese general to lead UN Mission in Sahara 8/28/2007
The United Nations Secretary General has appointed Major General Zhao Jingmin commander of the UN Mission in the Sahara, known as the MINURSO, to succeed Danish general Kurt Mosgaard, UN chief spokeswoman announced
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Total failure of the Polisario front to impose new sanctions 8/24/2007
Since the beginning of august the leadership of Polisario decided to deprive the inhabitants of Tindouf camps of Algerian passports, and necessary visas to travel abroad. ( It worth mentioning that these documents are delivered through the Polisario leadership) The polisario leadership gave firm instructions to its representatives abroad, and to the security services in charge of controlling the camps, to make sure that this abusive decision will be put into practice as from 15th of august until January 2008.
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Polisario sells water and the Algerian army distributes it to contain the unrest of... 8/17/2007
Since the beginning of this summer, it has been noticed that the supply of water for the retained Sahraouis forbidden to join their homeland in the camps of: laayoune, Smara, Ausserd, Dakhla, and twenty seven, situated in the outskirt of Tindouf is done, for the first time by the Algerian army tanks instead of tanks given by humanitarian organizations to the Polisario front.
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Ban Ki Moon: the 2nd round of negotiations concerning Sahara allowed “good substance discussion” 8/15/2007
The United Nations general secretary Mr Ban Ki Moon indicated Tuesday that the second round of negotiations concerning Sahara was an opportunity for parties concerned to lead “good substance discussions”.“ Although there were no apparent progress during these negotiations, the two parties had good substance negotiations during the two days” of their meeting, last Friday and Saturday, at Manhasset, declared Mr Ban Ki-Moon during a press conference at the headquarter of the Un at New York.
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