The Polisario senses the tide is turning. A dissident offshoot of the Front, the Sahrawi Movement for Peace (MSP) was received yesterday by the United States representative to the United Nations. The MSP, which advocates a «third way» in resolving the Sahara issue, has already called for broadening «the base of Sahrawi actors» involved in negotiations conducted under UN auspices.
The president of the Movement for the Society of Peace (MSP) the biggest Islamist party in Algeria, Abderrazak Makri, said on Wednesday that the Western Sahara issue should not affect relations between Algeria and Morocco, considering the closure of borders separating the two neighboring countries as a huge «mistake that should be corrected».