"The Government (of the United Kingdom) continues to encourage all the parties to the conflict to engage in the negotiation process,  led by the UN, in a spirit of realism and compromise, and work for reaching a political and mutually acceptable solution (to the Sahara issue),"  Foreign Office  State Minister, Bill Rammell, told the House of Commons (the lower house of the British Parliament).

    Four UN-brokered rounds of talks were held in 2007 and early 2008, in Manhasset, New York outskirts, to find a political solution to this issue.

    The rounds, were held under the aegis of Peter van Walsum, former personal envoy of the UN Secretary General to the Sahara,  and attended by delegations from Morocco, Algeria, the Polisario and Mauritania.

Source: MAP
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