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xxxvi • CHRONOLOGY 1993 January 26: A report by Boutros-Ghali proposes three alternatives to ending the impasse over the Sahara conflict, including ending MINURSO’s mandate. March 2: The UN Security Council adopts Resolution 809, declining to directly comment on the new voter eligibility criteria. May: Erik Jensen is appointed chairman of MINURSO’s Identification Commission. July 16–19: Moroccan and Polisario representatives meet in El-Ayoun in an unsuccessful attempt to narrow their differences. August–September: Polisario begins to soften its opposition to the voter eligibility criteria set forth in December 1991 by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. November 4: The UN announces that the Identification Commission has begun work in Western Sahara. 1994 March 29: The UN Security Council unanimously instructs the secretary-general to continue his efforts to reconcile Morocco and Polisario. August 10: Polisario’s Bachir Mustapha Sayed sharply criticizes secretary-general Boutros-Ghali for his alleged bias in favor of Morocco. August 11: Moroccan Foreign Minister Abdellatif Filali rejects all efforts by the OAU to intervene in the Western Sahara dispute, saying the organization “no longer exists.” August 16: Algeria’s new president, Liamine Zéroual, states that Western Sahara “is still an illegally occupied country.” November 5: A UN report states that almost 4,000 applications by Saharawis to vote have been processed, about 2 percent of the estimated total number. December 14: Boutros-Ghali, in a report to the Security Council, says he is encouraged by the progress in voter registration, but warns of the complexity of MINURSO’s mandate. 1995 January: Frank Ruddy, a former member of the UN Identification Commission, strongly criticizes Moroccan behavior in Western Sahara in testimony to the U.S. Congress and believes that the UN lacks the resolve to confront Morocco. March 30: The UN secretary-general reports that by mid-March, 21,300 Saharawis had been identified formally by MINURSO. May 26: The UN announces that 35,851 persons have been identified as voters. June 3–9: A special mission is sent to Western Sahara by the UN Security Council; it reports (on June 21) of a “continuing suspicion and lack of trust” between Morocco and the Polisario Front. July–August: The pace of MINURSO’s voter identification process slows due to Morocco-Polisario frictions. September 22: In Resolution 1017 the UN Security Council states that the parties to the Western Sahara conflict “must have a vision of the post-referendum
CHRONOLOGY • xxxvii period.” November: The voter identification process comes virtually to a halt. November 17: Polisario releases 186 Moroccan prisoners of war at the request of the Italian government. 1996 January 31: The UN Security Council passes Resolution 1042 reaffirming MINURSO’s mandate. May 8: In another report to the Security Council, Boutros-Ghali states that it has proven impossible to restart voter identification; over 60,000 persons have already been identified. November 5: Voter eligibility process remains suspended. 1997 January 1: Kofi Annan of Ghana replaces Boutros-Ghali as the new UN secretary-general. February 27: Annan issues his first report on Western Sahara. March 1: Bachir Mustapha Sayed is appointed the SADR’s foreign minister. April 2: Kofi Annan appoints former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III as his Special Envoy to Western Sahara; Baker tours the region on April 23–28. June 23, July 19–20, and August 29–30: James Baker holds indirect negotiations with Morocco and the Polisario Front in Lisbon and London. September 14–16: Baker holds a round of talks in Houston, Texas; these result in the socalled Houston Accords on the resumption of voter registration. December 3: Registration of Saharawi voters recommences. December 26: Former U.S. diplomat Charles Dunbar is appointed the new UN Special Representative for Western Sahara, replacing Erik Jensen. 1998 January 15: In a report to the Security Council, Kofi Annan states that 13,277 more Saharawi voters had been formally processed by MINURSO between December 3, 1997, and January 10, 1998. February–March: The pace of voter identification again begins to fall behind expectations. June 8–10: At an OAU summit in Burkina Faso, a Moroccan-inspired attempt to have the SADR’s membership in the organization revoked is unsuccessful. August: Voter identification of noncontested tribes ends; disputes remains as to the H41, H61, and J51/52 tribes. September 11: In another report to the Security Council, Kofi Annan states that more than 147,000 persons have been processed so far, with approval given to about 85,000. December 11: The secretarygeneral notes a continued deadlock on the H41-H61-J51/52 tribes. 1999 January: The UN Identification Commission reduces its staff in Western Sahara owing to the new registration impasse. March 31: Charles Dunbar resigns as UN Special Representative; he is replaced on
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