At this sensitive point in the process. such a nonpartisan expression of support is valuable. Mr. Baker said in a Washington news conference last week that this resolution provides a much needed boost to a referendum process he referred to as the "last opportunity for peace" in Western Sahara. Years of fighting between Morocco. the Polisario Front. and Mauritania have claimed thousands of lives and created hundreds of thousands of refugees. The equitable ending of this conflict is important to the United States. Morocco is a longstanding American ally. and continued turmoil in the region is contrary to United States interests.
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