The United Nations Secretary General’s personal envoy for the Sahara, Horst Köhler invited all parties involved in the conflict, namely Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario to a second roundtable meeting in the Swiss city of Geneva on March 21-22. The news was reported by several media outlets that quoted well-informed sources in Geneva. According to these press reports, the second roundtable will take place behind closed doors, like the first roundtable, held in Geneva last December 5-6 and seeks to deepen the talks initiated then. The Resolution had commended the stakeholders’ decision to accept the invitation to take part in the first roundtable meeting in Geneva and hailed again the relevance, seriousness and credibility of the Moroccan autonomy initiative. These separate informal meetings were part of the talks led by the UN envoy to prepare the second round of the quadripartite talks.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 14, 2019 16:52 UTC