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 Saharawi movement urged Guterres 'to act quickly to appoint a Personal Envoy with the same conviction as Horst Köhler'...