Algiers and the Polisario Front were upset when the Germany's former President Horst Köhler suddenly resigned as the UN's Special Envoy to Western Sahara in 2019...
A measure of the conflict's neglect – or at least the UN's inability to mobilise any consensus – is Guterres's failure to install a Personal Envoy to the Western Sahara since former German president Horst Köhler resigned citing ill health in May 2019 (AC Vol 60 No 11 Köhler leaves the hot seat)...
This includes calling for a more robust African Union role in the conflict and for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to appoint a new Personal Envoy for Western Sahara after Horst Köhler stood down last May on health grounds (AC Vol 60 No 11 Köhler leaves the hot seat)...
Momentum behind the peace process stalled when former German President Horst Köhler stood down as the UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara in May on health grounds (AC Vol 60 No 11 Köhler leaves the hot seat)...
Horst Köhler's appointment as the UN Secretary-General António Guterres's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara in July 2017 was welcomed by Morocco for whom the former German President and International Monetary Fund chief was a professed 'close friend' who understood its historic claim to the disputed Western Sahara...
No wonder the Sahrawi movement urged Guterres 'to act quickly to appoint a Personal Envoy with the same conviction as Horst Köhler'...
Guterres's new UN envoy to the Western Sahara former German President Horst Köhler is also trusted by Rabat (AC Vol 59 No 1 Forward on the southern front)...
United Nations Secretary General António Guterres has been looking to give peace talks new impetus supported by the former German President and former IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler as his special envoy...
The recently appointed United Nations envoy former International Monetary Fund managing director and German President Horst Köhler is seen as more sympathetic to Rabat but has stayed silent as he seeks a way out of a still intractable problem...
Other donor states are sceptical about this despite warm public encouragement from the IMF's Managing Director Horst Köhler...
Bank President James Wolfensohn has argued for giving developing countries more weight; like IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler he seems keen on reform but short on specifics...