The Polisario Front urges the UN Security Council to clarify the mission of the new UN envoy for Western Sahara and provide guarantees on a long-delayed referendum on the territory’s future.
The UN considers Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony, a “non-self-governing territory,” with the question of its control up in the air for decades.
The issue has pitted Morocco against the independence-seeking Polisario Front, which is backed by Algeria. Rabat, which controls 80 percent of the vast desert territory and its rich Atlantic fisheries, has proposed a plan for Western Sahara self-governance under Moroccan sovereignty.
The Polisario continues to demand a UN-supervised self-determination referendum, which was agreed to in a 1991 ceasefire accord but has still never taken place.
The administration of former US president Donald Trump recognized Morocco’s sovereignty over Western Sahara as part of a deal for the country to normalize ties with Israel late last year.
— with AP
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