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More faith to fix trust and settle the Sahara issue

By on March 23, 2010
The personal representative of Secretary General Kofi Annan for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, said Monday in Nouakchott with “the good faith of all, we will be able soon to fix” the problem of Western Sahara.

Mr. Ross spoke to reporters after an audience with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz, however, he acknowledged that the negotiations that “should pave the way for a mutually agreed solution» are in a ” deadlock position. He called on the concerned parties to invest more logic and effort to find the best pathway out of this impasse.
The UN official arrived late Sunday in Nouakchott where he held talks with Foreign Minister of Mauritania, and left Nouakchott on Monday to Algiers.
Rabat maintains its autonomy plan, introduced in April 2007, as the “only way” to the Sahara conflict issue, while the Polisario demands, from its bases in the south west of Algeria, a self-determination referendum.
Morocco considers the Polisario claims “unrealistic” and Algeria being and for 35 years “the main handicap facing the final resolution of the conflict”
Morocco has gone beyond the Faith, the Truth and Trust, and called on the United Nations to bring Algiers to participate in unfreezing the deadlocked situation, but in vain…

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