UN chief urges Morocco, Polisario to accept candidate ...Kuwait

The UN chief on Friday urged Morocco and the Polisario Front to accept his next candidate for the post of UN special envoy for the disputed region of Western Sahara, after they rejected all the previous candidates. The Polisario Front has for decades fought Morocco for the independence of Western Sahara, a desert region bigger than Britain which was a Spanish colony until 1975. "It is absolutely essential to have an envoy to relaunch the political dialogue on Western Sahara," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at a joint press conference in Madrid with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.  "The difficulty is that we already put forward 13 names, and until now

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