New York (United Nations), February 13, 2015 (SPS) - UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Christopher Ross began Wednesday a trip to the region, the first stage of which is Moroccan capital, Rabat, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq has announced.
Ross will hold talks with Morocco and the Polisario Front as well as the neighbouring states," the AFP cited the UN spokesman as saying.
Without elaborating about the stages of the trip, the spokesman pointed out that some arrangements relating to the trip were not yet made.
Christopher Ross has not made a visit to the region for a year.
Saharawi's Council of Ministers welcomed, last week, the comeback of the UN chief's personal envoy for Western Sahara and Kim Bolduc, who has taken office as special representative for Western Sahara, and head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
The Council of Ministers also reiterated Saharawis' willingness, and in "good faith," to continue cooperation with the United Nations, within a "strict and clear framework," aiming at Western Sahara's decolonization through a free, fair and impartial referendum allowing Saharawi people to exert their inalienable right to self-determination. (SPS)
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