Houston Agreement

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The Houston Agreement was the result of negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco on the organization of a referendum, which would constitute an expression of self-determination for the Sahrawi people of the non-decolonized territory of Western Sahara, possibly leading to full independence. The talks were conducted in Houston, USA, under the auspices of UN representative James Baker, in the framework of the 1991 Settlement Plan. The agreement was supposed to lead to a referendum in 1998, after it had been prevented from taking place in 1992 as originally envisioned. This never happened, and the Houston Agreement produced few tangible results. From about 2000, the negotiations on the future of Western Sahara turned instead to the Baker Plan, accepted in 2003 by the Polisario, but rejected by Morocco. Neither plan has as of 2006 been implemented.

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• History of Western Sahara