US backs Morocco's stance on Western Sahara

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2007

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — The UN Security Council on Wednesday urged Morocco and the Polisario independence movement to press on with good faith talks to resolve their dispute over Western Sahara but the United States tilted toward Rabat.

In a non-binding statement following closed-door consultations on the festering 32-year-old dispute, the 15-member council welcomed last month's UN-sponsored direct talks, the first in seven years, between the parties in the New York suburb of Manhasset.

The statement expressed hope the parties would use their next round of bargaining, scheduled for August 10 and 11 in Manhasset, "to engage in good faith in subtantive negotiations on the way forward in accordance with (Security Council) resolution 1754 (adopted last April).

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