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A Victory for UN Peacekeeping – Robert M. Holley
Photo: United Nations Robert M. Holley April 28, 2017 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP Generally, the first step in solving a problem is ensuring not to make it any worse. They say, if...
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How Many More World Refugee Days before Sahrawis See Justice? – Robert M. Holley
Photo: Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Robert M. Holley June 20, 2017 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP It is once again World Refugee...
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Welcome to the Maroc Talk Podcast. Follow this space for news, discussion, and interviews on Morocco: Maroc Talk 8.24.17: Africa is the Future Maroc Talk 8.16.17: Leila Hanafi on Regional Reform and...
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Western Sahara – Who Should Vote? – Robert M. Holley
Robert M. Holley November 30, 2017 Photo: Vesna Middelkoop Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP No one pays much attention to this issue these days, but at some point in the future, under...
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Western Sahara – Who Should Vote, Part II – Robert M. Holley
Photo: Vesna Middelkoop Robert M. Holley December 11, 2017 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP The United Nations established “right” of “distinct peoples” to “self-determination” following...
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Western Sahara: Who Should Vote Part III – It is Time for a Referendum –...
Photo: Vesna Middelkoop Robert M. Holley January 11, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP Yes, you read that title correctly. It is time for a Western Sahara referendum. The referendum...
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Western Sahara, Who Should Vote – Part IV: With or Without – Robert M. Holley
Bustling Dakhla — where the Sahara meets the Sea — is a center of commerce, culture, and tourism in Morocco’s southern provinces. MOTM Robert M. Holley January 22, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy...
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A new President, a New Opportunity in the Western Sahara — Ambassador Edward...
Photo: United Nations Ambassador Edward M. Gabriel (ret.) January 26, 2018 Once again, this April, the United States will go through the annual ritual at the UN Security Council of renewing of the...
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Western Sahara: Who Should Vote, Part V – Bargaining Forward – Robert M. Holley
Bustling Dakhla — where the Sahara meets the Sea — is a center of commerce, culture, and tourism in Morocco’s southern provinces. MOTM Robert M. Holley January 31, 2018 In the first blog of this...
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Sahara Negotiations: Redux or Moving Forward? — Ambassador Edward M. Gabriel...
German Federal President Horst Kohler talks with the troops at Camp Marmal, Mazar-e-Sharif Afghanistan, May 22, 2010. Photo:ResoluteSupportMedia Ambassador Edward M. Gabriel (ret.) February 7, 2018...
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Western Sahara: MINURSO – What Next? – Robert M. Holley
Robert M. Holley February 26, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP Shortly after Ban Ki Moon’s ill advised remarks while visiting the Polisario refugee camps a couple of years ago,...
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Western Sahara – Simmering Pots Eventually Boil – Robert M. Holley
MINURSO Monitors Ceasefire in Western Sahara. United Nations Photo Robert M. Holley April 3, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP For some years now I have been trying fruitlessly to...
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Western Sahara –The US Congress Strikes Again While State Still Dithers –...
US Capitol, Washington DC Photo: Jordan Uhl Robert M. Holley April 10, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP For the past five years one of Morocco’s main goals with US policymakers has...
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Morocco Should Implement Its Long Awaited Autonomy Plan — Ambassador Edward...
King Hassan II at the UN Security Council 31 January 1992 United Nations Photo Ambassador Edward M. Gabriel (ret.) May 1, 2018 Last month, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita visited Washington to...
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MINURSO – A Resolution With Resolve? – Robert M. Holley
MINURSO Headquarters, Laayoune, Morocco Photo: Guillaume Galdrat Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP Robert M. Holley May 2, 2018 After a few last minute grumbles from Russia and a few...
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State’s Confused Western Sahara Human Rights Reporting – Robert M. Holley
Western Sahara refugee Photo: United Nations Robert M. Holley May 23, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP The State Department is utterly confused on how to report on the subject of...
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Western Sahara – Polisario Ambitions and Reversals – Robert M. Holley
The Sahrawi refugees – a forgotten crisis in the Algerian desert Photo: EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Robert M. Holley June 4, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP I...
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Western Sahara Refugees – Free Them Now – Robert M. Holley
The Sahrawi refugees – a forgotten crisis in the Algerian desert Photo: EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Robert M. Holley June 20, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP...
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Western Sahara – Facts on the Ground – Robert M. Holley
El Marsa, port of Laayoune Photo: jbdodane Robert M. Holley July 3, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP With impending visits to the region scheduled by UN Personal Envoy Kohler and US...
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Western Sahara: Anybody on the Same Page? – Robert M. Holley
Security Council Extends Mission in Western Sahara United Nations Photo Robert M. Holley July 25, 2018 Robert M. Holley, Senior Policy Adviser, MACP At the end of April, the Security Council surprised...
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