UN council backs new effort to end Western Sahara conflict
UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution backing the secretary-general's new effort to resolve the 40-year conflict over the Western Sahara which has pitted Morocco against the Polisario Front independence movement.
The resolution was adopted Friday evening shortly after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres confirmed that Polisario Front fighters had withdrawn from the town of Guerguerat in the buffer zone on the Morocco-Mauritanian border. He had called for an immediate withdrawal -- and the council had been set to echo his appeal
