Two American diplomats visiting Laâyoune

The month of April each year is the one chosen by the UN Security Council to adopt its resolutions on the Moroccan Sahara dossier. In anticipation of this deadline and in parallel with Christopher Ross's new tour of the region, the United States has dispatched two diplomats to Laâyoune, it is believed here, to gather information on the human rights situation in the region. The two American diplomats who arrived in Laâyoune sometime last week are said, according to some observers, to belong to the State Department, while others have indicated that they are members of the staff of the American Embassy in Rabat. Be that as it may, upon their arrival at Laâyoune airport, the two American officials were met by a Moroccan official who took them to a hotel in the city, leaving them full freedom to move about as they pleased. This trip by the American diplomats, which comes a few weeks before t…