|  The United Nations Security Council adopted on Wednesday a resolution calling on the parties in the 32-year-old Sahara conflict to engage in substantive negotiations, and extending, for one year, the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Sahara (MINURSO).
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|  President of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs said that the first regular session of the Council for the year 2008, will be held next May in Rabat on the second and the third days.
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|  The Sahara "is not an issue of decolonization" and "has nothing to do with the right of peoples to self-determination," said Secretary-General of the Algerian Workers' Party, Louisa Hanoune, quoted Saturday by the Algerian daily "Le Jour d'Algérie".
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|  The assessment the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for the Sahara, Peter van Walsum, submitted to the Security Council, "is as important" as the report of Ban Ki-moon, according to Spain's ambassador to the United Nations, Juan Antonio Yanes-Barnuevo.
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|  Sheikhs and notables from Saharan tribes in the region of Guelmim-Smara expressed their satisfaction following statements by the personal representative of UN Secretary-General, Mr. Peter Van Walsum who submitted his report on the Sahara issue to the Security Council in which he says that the independence of the Sahara "is not a realistic option".
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