UN Special Envoy for the Sahara, Staffan de Mistura held “informal and bilateral consultations” with representatives from Algeria and the Polisario, as his talks with involved parties continue at the UN headquarters in New York continue.
de Mistura will appearance before the United Nations’ Security Council in coming weeks to discuss the Sahara conflict.
The envoy met with Nacim Gaouaoui, an Algerian diplomat, and the ambassadors and permanent representatives of Russia and the United Kingdom. He also held discussions with the Polisario representative in New York.
According to Stéphane Dujarric, the UN Secretary General’s spokesperson, de Mistura has extended invitations to representatives of Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria, and Mauritania, as well as members of the Group of Friends of Western Sahara, which includes France, the Russian Federation, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Mistura’s had already met this week with the ambassadors of France and Mauritania. The aim of the talks is to engage all stakeholders ahead of de Mistura’s upcoming six-monthly briefing to the Security Council.
The objective is to foster a constructive dialogue between the parties in hopes of achieving a peaceful resolution to the long-standing conflict.
A number of Security Council member states, including the United States, continue to call for the resumption of the quartet round table negotiations between the UN Personal Envoy, Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria and Mauritania.The UN’s latest round of consultations aims to build on this momentum and pave the way for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.
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