You're not going to desert, are you?

Then we go out to the desert and drive around and test it.

This is a work called Room for the Great Australian Desert.

Maybe you'd like to take a ride out desert way, and maybe look around.

It was also a testament to the cruelty of Morocco in its brutal occupation of Western Sahara.

Jan Strömdahl, Swedish Western Sahara Committee (A C.4 60 5 Add.14)

The rights, interests and natural resources of Western Sahara should be protected in the same way as Namibia's had been.

Ronny Hansen, Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara (A C.4 60 5 Add.26)

Douihi Mohamed Rachid, Conseil Consultatif pour le Sahara (A C.4 60 5 Add.34)

Morocco, which had railed against Spain's colonization of Western Sahara, now replaced Spain as the new colonizer.

Salaries and common staff costs of local staff are based on the local salary scale established for Western Sahara.

Salaries and common staff costs of local staff are based on the local salary scale established for Western Sahara.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Rachid (Conseil Consultatif pour Le Sahara) took a place at the petitioners' table.

He therefore called for an immediate halt to the repression of the Saharans, and for an end to the physical blockade of Western Sahara and, ultimately, its occupation.

22. The settlement plan for Western Sahara provided for the appointment of a Deputy Special Representative at the Assistant Secretary General level.

20. For the above mentioned reasons it was considered impractical to attempt to establish a separate salary scale for Western Sahara.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Strömdahl (Swedish Western Sahara Committee) took a place at the petitioners' table.

The appointment of a new Personal Envoy for Western Sahara was a hopeful step towards resuscitating the stalled negotiating process.

Furthermore, the Security Council had twice condemned the invasion, but Morocco continued defiantly to colonize and terrorize Western Sahara.

Morocco's policy of economic annexation of Western Sahara was a clear violation of the right of the Saharan people to self determination.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Hansen (Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara) took a place at the petitioners' table.

Regrettably, progress, if any, has been very slow in the implementation of the United Nations plan on Western Sahara.

The estimate for the local staff is based on the local salary scale established for Western Sahara (annex IV, para. 6).

In the same spirit, they reaffirmed their resolve to complete the Trans Sahara Road within the framework of the strengthening of the inter African road network.

My country welcomes the cooperation that links it to the countries bordering the Sahara in their commitment to fight against the terrorism that is brewing there and to deal with any eventuality.

And what looks like two big heaps of leaves, is actually two single leaves that get shredded up by the harsh desert conditions over time.

The latest chapter in the plundering of Western Sahara's natural resources was Morocco's search for oil in its territorial waters.

4. The Secretary General further recalled in his report the basic positions of Morocco and the Frente Popular para la Liberación de Saguia el Hamra y de Río de Oro (Frente POLISARIO) regarding the provisions of the settlement plan for Western Sahara.

He had spoken several times with all the interested parties, and his Special Representative for Western Sahara had made several trips to the region for the purpose of consultation and dialogue.

25. The Western Sahara funds continue to be used for minimal programme delivery and administrative support costs as and when applicable.

It was also exploiting the rich fishing grounds within the territorial waters of Western Sahara by granting licences to States and companies to take large quantities of fish.

At the invitation of the Chairman, Mr. Scheiner (Netherlands Foundation for Self determination in Western Sahara) took a place at the petitioners' table.

The Kingdom of Morocco was not only denying that right to the Saharan people but also exploiting the natural resources of Western Sahara without taking account of the interests of the Saharan people and their sole legal representative, the Frente POLISARIO.

quot Noting with satisfaction the appointment on 23 March 1992 of Mr. Sahabzada Yaqub Khan as Special Representative of the Secretary General for Western Sahara,

17. The Secretary General, accompanied by his Special Representative for Western Sahara, visited the mission area from 31 May to 4 June 1993.

The basic rights of the Saharan people had been recognized by the international community he called for the appointment of a new Independent Jurist for Western Sahara, a position which had been vacant since 1999.

Mr. Strömdahl (Swedish Western Sahara Committee) said that Morocco continued to claim that Western Sahara was the Moroccan Sahara and to confiscate maps showing the correct borders.

Continued Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara not only threatened the peace and stability of the entire Maghreb region but also undermined the credibility of the United Nations.

Not even the Secretary General's appointment, in 1997, of a Personal Envoy for Western Sahara had made it possible to overcome the obstacles erected by the Moroccan side to prevent the holding of the referendum.

In so doing, that company, like the foreign companies holding fishing licences, were accomplices in the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco.

Mr. Rachid (Conseil Consultatif pour Le Sahara) said that the file on decolonization in Western Sahara ought to have been closed when the Spanish army had withdrawn in 1975.

Letter dated 26 September 2005 from Douihi Mohamed Rachid, Member, Conseil Consultatif pour Le Sahara, addressed to the Chairman of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)

Despite pressure from the International Coalition for the Protection of the Natural Resources of Western Sahara, FUGRO NV had refused to halt its activities and had completed the survey at the end of June 2004.

With little hope of a political solution in sight, UNHCR and the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Western Sahara have promoted a series of humanitarian confidence building measures involving all parties.

At the most recent Summit of the Community of Sahelo Saharan States, the President of Nigeria had promoted the idea, endorsed by the African Union, of establishing a green wall for the Sahara, stretching from Senegal to Djibouti.