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Editors' Note

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Posted by admin 116 days ago (http://query.nytimes.com)
An Op-Ed article on March 3, about Morocco's proposal for an autonomous Western Sahara, should have more fully disclosed the background of the author, Frederick Vreeland. Mr. Vreeland, a former American ambassador to Morocco, is also the chairman of a solar-energy company that has had contracts with the Moroccan government.

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World Briefing | Africa: Morocco: Talks Set In Western Sahara Dispute

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Morocco and the Polisario Front, which are struggling for control of resource-rich Western Sahara, agreed to hold direct talks for the first time under the terms of a unanimously passed United Nations Security Council resolution. Morocco, which annexed the Front in 1979, hopes to incorporate it as an autonomous province with its own regional government. The Polisario Front wants a referendum that

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Morocco: Western Sahara Talks Resuming

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Posted by admin 116 days ago (http://query.nytimes.com)
The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, appealed for ''substantive'' results from deadlocked talks brokered by the United Nations between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front over the future of the resource-rich Western Sahara annexed by Morocco in 1975 after the colonial power Spain withdrew. A closed-door round of negotiations, the third in seven months, begin on Tuesday

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Western Sahara Peace Talks Stall

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Posted by admin 116 days ago (/data/daily/2008/01/10/735612.sgml?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
The latest round of peace talks between Morocco and the pro-independence Polisario Front ended in stalemate on Wednesday, with the two sides agreeing to try again in March to resolve a 32-year dispute for control of Western Sahara. The United Nations mediator, Peter van Walsum, said that the two sides could not reach a ''mutually acceptable solution to the impasse.''

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Morocco: Separatist Allowed To Return

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Posted by admin 116 days ago (/data/daily/2009/12/19/930407.sgml?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
A Western Sahara independence campaigner, Aminatou Haidar, returned home on Friday after a 32-day hunger strike at a Spanish airport, defusing a diplomatic dispute between Spain and Morocco and potentially strengthening the separatist campaigners of the Polisario Front. The government initially refused to allow Mrs. Haidar to enter the country after a trip abroad, confiscating her passport and pu

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Riot Renews Conflict Between Morocco and Algeria

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Posted by admin 116 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
A deadly riot has renewed a festering conflict between Morocco and Western Sahara separatists supported by neighboring Algeria.

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Western Sahara: Report of Torture

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More than 150 people remain in detention since a police raid on a Western Sahara squatter camp last month.

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Morocco Says It Foiled Terrorist Cell

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Posted by admin 116 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Authorities arrested 27 people accused of operating a terror cell in the Western Sahara led by a member of the local branch of Al Qaeda.

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