Naciones Unidas embarranca en el Sáhara
El Consejo de Seguridad deplora la violencia de Rabat sobre los saharauis pero no logra impulsar el diálogo entre Marruecos y el Polisario
SANDRO POZZI | Nueva York 17/11/2010
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Naciones/Unidas/embarranca/Sahara/elpepuesp/20101117elpepuint_1/Tes
United Nations aground in the SaharaThe Security Council deplores the violence of Rabat on the Saharawi but fails to promote dialogue between Morocco and the Polisario
POZZI MICHAEL | New York 17/11/2010
The Security Council of the UN is the one carrying the baton. That is the answer given by the European delegations when asked about the diplomatic castling Sahara conflict, the longest-running territorial dispute in Africa. The stalled negotiations between Morocco and the Frente Polisario comes to the point of exhausting the patience of even the oldest veteran diplomat. And what worries: rising tensions in the region.
The third round of informal consultations held last week at Greentree (New York) ended as it began: without concretions. Despite international pressure, all agreed was a new appointment in early 2011 to discuss how "wide" and "frank" the proposals on the table. But given how the process flows and increased tension in the area, in the corridors diplomats feared that the dispute go to (further) long. Christopher Ross, the UN special envoy, presented his vision last night of the two days of discussions at a meeting of Security Council consultations. The agency deplored in a brief note after "violence in Laayoune and Izik Gdeim camp, expressed his condolences for the wounded and dead and reiterated his support for his mission in the area (MINURSO) and the peace process sponsored by Ross.
Morocco and the Polisario not find common ground or to decide who is entitled to vote in an eventual referendum on self-government. Rabat speaking of autonomy as the only option, and to justify claims the rights of sovereignty over the territory. The Sahrawi Polisario wants to choose between integration, autonomy and even independence.
Since the cease-fire in 1991, the UN has been unable to forge a just and lasting solution accepted by the parties. The first serious call to Morocco and the Polisario to enter into a dialogue with that objective "good faith" and "without conditions" came in 2007, he repeated in 2008 and 2009. Since then there have been four formal and three informal meetings.
According to Ross, "enter a new dynamic" that would "create a climate" that can advance the discussion that should lead to negotiation. United Kingdom, chaired this month the Security Council's work, is positive that the Ambassador Ross, who has already traveled to the region four times, keep the dialogue going, despite the escalating violence in the area.
"The solution of the conflict is a priority," according to the UN, which insists that it is doing everything possible to help the parties "to overcome this impasse." Spain is not part of the Security Council, but other specific forum, the Friends of Western Sahara. Curiously not met, or Spanish diplomacy has made no move to convene.Rabat avoids the Security Council's message
Morocco has reacted quickly to the message of the Security Council on violence in the Sahara. Rabat Ambassador to the UN, Mohamed Loulichki, has praised "the high sense of responsibility" shown by the international body to deplore the violence in the region, considering that the words refer to "acts of barbarity committed against the forces Moroccan security that went unarmed into the fields to rescue women and children in the camp protest in Laayoune.
In addition, the Moroccan representative had referred to the appeal which the Council called on the parties involved to demonstrate their political will to reach an understanding, considering that this message is addressed to "other parties", and that Rabat has made "efforts" required to achieve a "realistic solution."
EP
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Naciones/Unidas/embarranca/Sahara/elpepuesp/20101117elpepuint_1/Tes
United Nations aground in the SaharaThe Security Council deplores the violence of Rabat on the Saharawi but fails to promote dialogue between Morocco and the Polisario
POZZI MICHAEL | New York 17/11/2010
The Security Council of the UN is the one carrying the baton. That is the answer given by the European delegations when asked about the diplomatic castling Sahara conflict, the longest-running territorial dispute in Africa. The stalled negotiations between Morocco and the Frente Polisario comes to the point of exhausting the patience of even the oldest veteran diplomat. And what worries: rising tensions in the region.
The third round of informal consultations held last week at Greentree (New York) ended as it began: without concretions. Despite international pressure, all agreed was a new appointment in early 2011 to discuss how "wide" and "frank" the proposals on the table. But given how the process flows and increased tension in the area, in the corridors diplomats feared that the dispute go to (further) long. Christopher Ross, the UN special envoy, presented his vision last night of the two days of discussions at a meeting of Security Council consultations. The agency deplored in a brief note after "violence in Laayoune and Izik Gdeim camp, expressed his condolences for the wounded and dead and reiterated his support for his mission in the area (MINURSO) and the peace process sponsored by Ross.
Morocco and the Polisario not find common ground or to decide who is entitled to vote in an eventual referendum on self-government. Rabat speaking of autonomy as the only option, and to justify claims the rights of sovereignty over the territory. The Sahrawi Polisario wants to choose between integration, autonomy and even independence.
Since the cease-fire in 1991, the UN has been unable to forge a just and lasting solution accepted by the parties. The first serious call to Morocco and the Polisario to enter into a dialogue with that objective "good faith" and "without conditions" came in 2007, he repeated in 2008 and 2009. Since then there have been four formal and three informal meetings.
According to Ross, "enter a new dynamic" that would "create a climate" that can advance the discussion that should lead to negotiation. United Kingdom, chaired this month the Security Council's work, is positive that the Ambassador Ross, who has already traveled to the region four times, keep the dialogue going, despite the escalating violence in the area.
"The solution of the conflict is a priority," according to the UN, which insists that it is doing everything possible to help the parties "to overcome this impasse." Spain is not part of the Security Council, but other specific forum, the Friends of Western Sahara. Curiously not met, or Spanish diplomacy has made no move to convene.Rabat avoids the Security Council's message
Morocco has reacted quickly to the message of the Security Council on violence in the Sahara. Rabat Ambassador to the UN, Mohamed Loulichki, has praised "the high sense of responsibility" shown by the international body to deplore the violence in the region, considering that the words refer to "acts of barbarity committed against the forces Moroccan security that went unarmed into the fields to rescue women and children in the camp protest in Laayoune.
In addition, the Moroccan representative had referred to the appeal which the Council called on the parties involved to demonstrate their political will to reach an understanding, considering that this message is addressed to "other parties", and that Rabat has made "efforts" required to achieve a "realistic solution."
EP
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