Rabat, March 22, 2013 (SPS) - The UN Secretary-General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Mr. Christopher Ross, who is in Morocco since Wednesday as part of a regional tour, said Thursday in Rabat that the Security situation in Sahel makes settlement of Western Sahara issue “more urgent than ever.”
“The situation in the Sahel region and its neighborhood makes a solution to Western Sahara issue more urgent than ever,” Ross told the press at the end of a meeting with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
He said that his new tour, which will finish on April 3rd, is “devoted to the search of a solution to the Western Sahara issue in accordance with the UN Security Council’s successive resolutions,” adding that he had “deep” discussions with Moroccan senior political officials on “the best ways to move forward the course of negotiations.”
He announced, on this occasion, that he will present the outcomes of this tour to the UN Security Council next April 22th.
After Rabat, Ross will head today, for the second time since his appointment in 2009, to the occupied territories of Western Sahara, particularly to the cities of El Aaiun and Dakhla, according to the media. (SPS)
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