Donald Trump and Massad Boulos ‹ › The Trump administration has, for the first time, issued an official statement on the Sahara talks currently underway at the U.S. Embassy in Madrid. In a post published on X, the United States Mission to the United Nations said that «senior delegations from the United States and the United Nations facilitated discussions in Madrid, Spain with Morocco, Polisario Front, Algeria and Mauritania regarding the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2797 (2025) on Western Sahara». The talks are being conducted under the leadership of Massad Boulos, special adviser to President Donald Trump on African and Arab affairs, alongside Mike Waltz, head of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. They mark the first round of negotiations of this kind after several years of diplomatic stalemate. The last meeting that brought all parties together took place in March 2019, during the Geneva roundtables launched by the former UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, the late German diplomat Horst Köhler.
