Dakar — Former US Secretary of State James Baker has resigned as the UN special
envoy to the Western Sahara after trying without success for seven years to
broker a political settlement for the desert territory which has been
occupied by Morocco since 1976.
His departure was announced in a UN statement issued over the
weekend.
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