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Sri Lanka has to maintain 'radio silence' on domestic bond re-structuring as part of the process now followed under the International Monetary Fund to reduce the debt to 'sustainable' levels, Central Bank Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said.
Follow Feb. 21, 2021 To this day, the UN maintains a list of 17 territories considered as non-self-governing – territories that have yet to be decolonized. All, except one, are islands, the vast majority administered by the United Kingdom; the smallest, Pitcairn, has just 43 residents. By far the largest by poulation (582,000 inhabitants) and land area (266,00 sq km) is Western Sahara. In 1960, the UN passed Resolution 1514, which declared, "All peoples have the right to self-determination." In 1975, Western Sahara was recognized as a non-self-governing territory, after Spain renounced its...
Print this article Polisario Front soldiers drive a pick-up truck mounted with an anti-aircraft weapon in Bir Lahlou, Western Sahara, in 2016. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters) The Baker and Bolton arguments against recognizing the country’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara do not hold water. Near the very end of President Trump’s administration, the United States recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the Western Sahara. That move elicited loud protests, most notably from James Baker, John Bolton, and Senator James Inhofe (R., Okla.). For reasons that are not pe...
The United States has agreed to set up a consulate in the Wesetern Sahara region while recognizing Morocco's control over the territory. Photo Credit: Martine Perret via UN Photos An independent Republic of Western Sahara moves farther from the grasp of the Polisario Front as the United States has expressed its intentions of establishing a consulate in the contested territory while recognizing Morocco’s right to it. This development, coming at the tail end of 2020, is a watershed moment in the geopolitics of North Africa. Morocco has scored a victory that allows the country to rest easy as ...