Protracted conflict and failure to achieve prenegotiation in Western Sahara Conflict
The United Nations and Western powers, due to the absence of political will and/or questions of Realpolitik, also bear responsibility for the continuation of this enduring conflict.
The United Nations’ Failure in Resolving the Western Sahara Conflict
Altough a peace plan was accepted by Marocco and the POLISARIO in 1988, and despite a UN presence in the Western Sahara since 1991, the world body has failed to implement a referendum on self-determination in the former spanish colony.
The Unresolved Western Sahara Conflict and Its Repercussions
Western Sahara conflicts have yet to be definitively resolved. It now belongs to the category of “forgotten” or “frozen” conflicts. The conflict itself is not the only issue to have been forgotten.
The Western Sahara Conflict: Regional and International Dimensions
King Hassan II of Morocco informed the French press in December 1988 that he was willing to talk to the Frente Popular para la Liberacidn de Saguia el-Hamra y Rio de Oro, known as the Polisario Front, which had been waging a war of national independence during the previous 15 years.
The resurgence of algeria’s foreign policy in the twenty-first century
In January 1992, the military regime in Algeria interrupted the electoral process when the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS).