US EditionMorocco Declares October 31 As National Holiday for Western Sahara Resolution
Morocco's Unity Day celebrates UN backing of its autonomy plan for Western Sahara, aiming to resolve a 50-year conflict, with 11 countries voting in favor, including the US.
- On Tuesday, Morocco's royal palace declared October 31 next year a national holiday called Unity Day to mark a U.N. Security Council resolution backing its autonomy plan for Western Sahara.
- Last Friday, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution saying genuine autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty could be the most feasible solution; the United States sponsored the measure and led 11 countries in voting in favour, while Russia, China, and Pakistan abstained and Algeria opposed.
- The territory is a phosphate-rich coastal desert measuring about 100,000 sq miles, under Spanish rule until 1975 and later annexed by Morocco, which controls much of it while the Polisario Front holds part.
- The resolution also renewed Minurso's mandate for one year, while the African Union recognises Western Sahara's independence and several countries have backed Morocco in recent years.
- The long-running conflict remains unresolved as 1990s ceasefires failed to end the dispute and a U.N.-brokered referendum never held due to voter eligibility disputes despite U.N. peacekeepers deployed since 1991.
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Morocco Declares 'Unity Day' Holiday to Mark UN Support for Western Sahara Autonomy
Morocco has declared 31 October a national holiday, known as Unity Day, to commemorate the UN Security Council's approval of a resolution supporting its autonomy plan for the disputed Western Sahara region.
Morocco declares national holiday to mark UN resolution on Western Sahara
Morocco's royal palace on Tuesday declared October 31 starting next year as a national holiday marking the adoption of a U.N. Security Council resolution backing the North African country's autonomy plan for Western Sahara.
Morocco marks UN Western Sahara vote with national holiday
Morocco declared 31 October a national holiday on Tuesday to mark the day the United Nations Security Council voted in favour of a resolution backing its plan for the disputed Western Sahara. The holiday, dubbed "Unity Day", will celebrate Morocco's "national unity and territorial integrity", the palace said in a statement carried by the official MAP news agency. Western Sahara is a vast mineral-rich former Spanish colony that is largely control…
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