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UN Mediator for the Western Sahara conflict, Peter van Walsum, announced Wednesday that a further round of talks will be held on the Western Sahara at the Greentree Estates in Manhasset, New York March 11-13. The negotiations will go on despite threats by the Polisario Front prior to the just concluded third round of negotiations that this was the international community's "last chance" to conclude a settlement or face the prospects of a new war in the Maghreb. Full Story
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In the broader international arena, public attention to the ongoing struggle in Western Sahara could be considered almost nonexistent - a 'forgotten conflict '. With current media attention alternating between the ongoing 'war against terrorism, the 'Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Iran North Korea, news of events pertaining to Western Sahara rarely appear in the mainstream newspapers or on television screens. However, this lack of public attention does not diminish the urgency and gravity of the situation, or the dire needs of the Sahrawi peoples.
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Western Sahara ( Arabic: الصحراء الغربية; transliterated: ’al-Sahrā° ’al-Ğarbīaĥ) is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands. It is a territory of northwestern Africa, bordered by the internationally-understood boundaries of Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west. The largest city is El Aaiún (Laâyoune), which is home to a majority of the population of the territory.
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[T]he Frente POLISARIO, along with the entire international community, does not recognise for Morocco any valid legal title of its presence in Western Sahara. The Madrid Accords of November 1975, referred to in the letter, whereby the former colonial power blatantly renounced its responsibilities as an Administering Power of the Territory, were a an illegal transaction that does not alter the colonial nature of the problem.
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