Morocco, Polisario to continue talks on W. Sahara

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2007

UNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Morocco and the Polisario independence movement will meet Saturday outside New York for a second day of UN-brokered talks on their 32-year-long dispute over Western Sahara.

The two sides began negotiations Friday in Manhasseet, just east of New York City, two months after resuming landmark talks.

The two sides held their first face-to-face talks in at least seven years in June, but the meeting failed to provide a breakthrough in their long-standing disagreements and ended with both sides calling for the other to compromise.

The talks focus on the status of the north African territory. The Polisario wants a referendum offering full autonomy or independence, while Rabat has so far only been willing to offer limited autonomy under...