| Date: 09/02/2010 Time: 09:46:00 AM |
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Taieb
Fassi-Fihri would head an official delegation to the second informal meeting
on Western Sahara in Armonk, New York later on Tuesday, it was announced here.
The meeting, to last until 11th of this month, is preparatory for the fifth
session of negotiations aimed at politically resolving the regional dispute, a
foreign ministry statement said.
The meeting, called by UN Special Envoy for Western Sahara Christopher
Ross, would also be attended by delegations from Algeria, Mauritania and the
Polisario.
Located in North Africa, the Western Sahara is largely a
Moroccan-controlled territory, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to
the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the
west.
the 266,000-square-kilometres flatland is one of the most sparsely
populated territories in the world, and it is listed by the United Nations as
a non-self-governing territory since the 1960s. |