NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.N. envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura ... a veteran Italian diplomat, said that partition "could allow for the creation on the one hand of an independent ...

In an October 2024 briefing to the UN Security Council, Staffan de Mistura, the secretary-general’s Western Sahara envoy, issued an unexpected recommendation to resolve the 50-year conflict: partition ...

The United Nations envoy to Western Sahara has proposed dividing the territory ... and expanded with all concerned on the concept of a partition of the Territory," Staffan de Mistura said during ...

The idea of partition isn't new. In a never-enacted agreement, Mauritania ceded the southern part of Western Sahara to Polisario when it withdrew in 1979. Former envoy James Baker floated ...

The diplomat has even questioned the relevance of the efforts by the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). Rabat has known about de Mistura’s partition proposal since April, as ...

The U.N. is pushing for a plan to split Western Sahara as a possible solution to ... While De Mistura deemed the partition worthy of exploration, he noted that both Morocco and Polisario have ...

The idea of partition isn't new. In a never-enacted agreement, Mauritania ceded the southern part of Western Sahara to Polisario when it withdrew in 1979. Former envoy James Baker floated ...