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U.N. hosting Western Sahara talks in Switzerland this week

Reuters • March 19, 2019, 01:06:37 IST
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U.N. hosting Western Sahara talks in Switzerland this week

U.N. hosting Western Sahara talks in Switzerland this week

GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy for the contested Western Sahara will convene talks in Switzerland later this week, seeking compromise after a first round in December that marked a return to the negotiating table for the first time in six years, a statement said.

United Nations efforts have repeatedly failed to broker a settlement over the desert territory, contested between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario since Spain left in 1974.

U.N. envoy Horst Koehler said after talks in December that all sides had agreed to meet again in early 2019.

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He has invited delegations from Morocco, the Frente Polisario, Algeria and Mauritania to the meeting in Switzerland set for March 21-22, a U.N. statement said.

“The meeting will take place in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 2440 as a further step in the political process towards reaching a just, lasting, and mutually acceptable political solution, which will provide for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara,” it said.

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“The purpose of the meeting is for delegations to start approaching elements needed for building an enduring solution based on compromise,” it added.

Morocco has offered autonomy to Western Sahara, a thinly populated region that has rich fishing waters and phosphate deposits, and may also have oil and gas reserves.

The Polisario, which waged a low-intensity guerrilla war until a ceasefire in 1991, reject this and want a referendum, with independence for Western Sahara as one option.

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

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