New Sahara Identification Commission Chairman Takes up Office
Morocco-UN, Politics, 6/12/1999

The new chairman of the identification commission, Eduardo Vetere, arrived earlier this week in the southern Moroccan Saharan city of Laayoune to prepare the grounds for the resumption of the commission's works by the middle of this month.

Eduardo Vetere, who was head of the UN bureau for crime control, was designated lately by the UN chief head of the UN identification commission in charge of checking the eligibility of voters called to participate in the referendum the UN is planning to hold in the Sahara by July 2000. The former head of the commission, Robin Kinloch, has been appointed assistant special representative of the U.N. secretary general for the Sahara.

To ensure success for the commission's works and lobby support for the UN settlement plan for the Sahara, new special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for the Sahara, William Eagleton, toured lately the North African region.

Eagleton was appointed special representative of the UN Secretary-General for the Sahara in replacement of Charles Dunbar. He will supervise the upcoming stages of the self-determination referendum which will determine whether the Sahara, a former Spanish colony retrieved by Morocco in 1975, sets up on its own as claimed by the Polisario, or remains part of Morocco.

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