§ Mr. WatsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will ask the United Nations Secretary-General to intervene personally to solve the current stalemate in holding a referendum in western Sahara by talking directly with the Moroccan and Saharawi leaders.
§ Mr. Douglas HoggThe Secretary-General's special representative, Mr. Yaqub Khan, has been pursuing talks with all parties to the western Sahara dispute. The Secretary-General hopes that substantial progress will have been made by the end of August.