Political status of Western Sahara

Background

Since the Madrid Accords of 1975, a part of Western Sahara has been administered by Morocco as the Southern Provinces. Another section, the Liberated Territories, is administered by the Polisario Front as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). Mauritania administers the western half of the Ras Nouadhibou Peninsula. A UN-monitored cease-fire has been in effect since September 1991.

While no other country has ever recognized Morocco's unilateral annexation of Western Sahara,[1][2] a number of countries have expressed their support for a future recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory as an autonomous part of the Kingdom. There is, for instance, a de facto recognition of the Moroccan claim on the part of some countries such as the case of the United Kingdom. Although the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) treats the status of Western Sahara as 'undetermined', its lack of reference to its current effective partition, considering the existence of the Polisario-held areas, indicates an acceptance of Morocco as the administering power in the entire territory.[3] Overall, the annexation has not garnered as much attention in the international community as many other disputed annexations (e.g. the Russian annexation of Crimea).

In order to resolve the sovereignty issue, the UN has attempted to hold a referendum through the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), and is holding direct talks between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front. The UN recognizes neither Moroccan[4] nor SADR sovereignty over Western Sahara.

Positions of the main parties

Kingdom of Morocco
Further information: Greater Morocco and Foreign relations of Morocco

The official position of the Kingdom of Morocco since 1963 is that all of Western Sahara is an integral part of the kingdom. The Moroccan government refers to Western Sahara only as "Moroccan Sahara", the "Saharan provinces", or the "Southern Provinces".

According to the Moroccan government, in 1958 the Moroccan Army of Liberation fought Spanish colonizers and almost liberated what was then Spanish Sahara. The fathers of many of the Polisario leaders were among the veterans of the Moroccan Southern Army, for example the father of Polisario leader Mohammed Abdelaziz. Morocco is supported in this view by a number of former Polisario founders and leaders. The Polisario Front is considered by Morocco to be a Moroccan separatist movement, referring to the Moroccan origins of most of its founding members, and its self-proclaimed SADR to be a puppet state used by Algeria to fight a proxy war against Morocco.

On 22 January 2020, Morocco's House of Representatives voted unanimously to add Western Sahara waters to the Moroccan maritime borders.[5]

Polisario Front and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
How Western Sahara is shown in maps

The Polisario Front, mainly backed by Algeria, is described by itself and its supporters as a national liberation movement that opposes Moroccan control of Western Sahara, whilst it is considered by Morocco and supporters of Morocco's claims over the Western Sahara to be a separatist organization. It began as a movement of students who felt torn between the divergent Spanish and Moroccan influences on the country. The original goal of the Polisario, which was to end Spanish colonialism in the region, was achieved, but their neighbours, Morocco and Mauritania, seized sovereignty of the region, which the Polisario felt was entitled to self-determination and eventually interdependence. The Polisario engaged in guerrilla warfare with the Moroccan and Mauritanian forces. It evacuated the Sahrawi population to the Tindouf refugee camps due to Royal Moroccan Air Force bombing of the refugee camps on Sahrawi land with napalm and white phosphorus.[6][7]

The Polisario Front has called for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara to be decided through a referendum. Although the SADR is not recognized as a state by the UN, the Polisario is considered a direct participant in the conflict and as the legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people, recognized by the United Nations since 1979.[8]

Polisario-held territory (in green) east of the Moroccan Wall

The Polisario Front argues that Morocco's position is due to economical interests (fishing, phosphate mining, and the potential for oil reserves) and political reasons (stability of the king's position and the governing elite in Morocco, deployment of most of the Moroccan Army in Western Sahara instead of in Morocco). The Polisario Front proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Bir Lehlou (Western Sahara), on 27 February 1976.

Mauritania

Claims on Western Sahara had proliferated since the 1960s, fuelled by Mauritanian President Moktar Ould Daddah. Before Mauritania signed the Madrid Accords and after the withdrawal of the last Spanish forces, in late 1975, the Mauritanian Army invaded the southern part of Western Sahara, while the Moroccan Army did the same in the north. In April 1976, Mauritania and Morocco partitioned the country into three parts, Mauritania getting the southern one, which was named Tiris al-Gharbiyya. Mauritania waged four years of war against Polisario guerrillas, conducting raids on Nouakchott, attacks on the Zouerate mine train and a coup d'état that deposed Ould Daddah. Mauritania finally withdrew in the summer of 1979, after signing the Algiers Agreement with the Polisario Front, recognizing the right of self-determination for the Sahrawi people, and renouncing any claims on Western Sahara. The Moroccan Army immediately took control of the former Mauritanian territory. Mauritania recognized the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on 27 February 1984.

Algeria

Algeria has supported the independence of the whole of Western Sahara since 1975, when Spanish forces and settlers withdrew from the area. It is one of the few countries to do so in the Arab League. It has provided aid to the 'Polisario Front'. Algeria's role became indirect, through political and military support for the Polisario Front. Algeria recognized the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on 6 March 1976. Its involvement in Western Sahara independence movement has interrupted the development of Algerian-Morocco diplomatic relations, which were restored in 1988.[9]

United Nations
Further information: MINURSO
A demonstration in Bilbao for the independence of the Western Sahara.

Western Sahara is on the United Nations list of Non-Self-Governing Territories. The UN has been involved since 1988 in trying to find a solution to the conflict through self-determination. In 1988, the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front agreed to settle the dispute through a referendum under the auspices of the UN that would allow the people of Western Sahara to choose between independence or integration with Morocco. In 1991, the parties agreed upon the Settlement Plan, contingent on the referendum being held the following year, but due to disputes over voter qualification, the vote was not held. In the following years, the UN argued for negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front to resolve the deadlock, culminating in the Manhasset negotiations in 2007-2008. As of 2020, the mandate for MINURSO has been extended 47 times[10] and it maintains its presence in the country, but has yet to fulfill its mission by organizing a referendum.

Positions of other states
Further information: International recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Positions on the status of Western Sahara:
  Western Sahara
  Supports Morocco's territorial claim (including support for autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty); Relations with the SADR terminated and/or recognition withdrawn (if no other position expressed)
  Maintains diplomatic relations with or recognizes the Sahrawi Republic
  Recognizes the self-determination of the Sahrawi people, but does not recognize the SADR nor maintain diplomatic relations with it (if no other position expressed)
  Has not expressed any position or has expressed conflicting opinions

Although no state has formally recognized Moroccan sovereignty on Western Sahara, some states are supportive of the "right of self-determination of the Sahrawi people", including the option of autonomy under Morocco sovereignty. Some states have changed their opinion frequently or have given separate announcements of support for both Morocco and the Polisario Front/SADR (Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Chile, Dominican Republic, Eswatini, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Sierra Leone).

Some of the states announcing support of the "right of self-determination" currently recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Not all of the states that have terminated diplomatic relations with or withdrawn recognition of the SADR have announced their support for the Moroccan claims.

Some states have not announced any position as of 2014.

States supporting Polisario and the SADR on Western Sahara[11]
# State Notes International membership
1  Algeria[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] African Union member

 Arab League member
 OIC member

2  Angola[27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] African Union member
3  Belize[36][37][38][39][40][41]
4  Botswana[42][43][44][45] African Union member
5  Cuba[40][46][47][48][49]
6  Dominican Republic[50]
7  East Timor[20][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59]
8  Ecuador[60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68]  UNASUR member
9  El Salvador[69][70][71]
10  Ethiopia[72][73][74][75][76] African Union member
11  Ghana[77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85] African Union member
12  Guatemala[86]
13  Guyana[87][88]  OIC member

 UNASUR member

14  Haiti[89]
15  Iran[90]  OIC member
16  Jamaica[91][92]
17  Kenya[93][94][95] African Union member
18  Lesotho[20][96][97][98][99][100][101][102][103][104][105] African Union member
19  Libya[106][107] Libya supports the Polisario Front but does not recognize Western Sahara as a state. African Union member

 Arab League member
 OIC member

20  Mali[15][16][108] African Union member

 OIC member

21  Mauritius[109][110] African Union member
22  Mexico[45][111][112][113][114][115]
23  Mozambique[116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124] African Union member

 OIC member

24  Namibia[43][44][115][125][126][127][128][129][130][131][132][133][134] African Union member
25  Nicaragua[40][135][136][137][138][139]
26  Nigeria[109][115][140][141][142][143] African Union member

 OIC member

27  Panama[144][145][146]
28  Peru[40][147][148]  UNASUR member
29  Rwanda[149][150] African Union member
30  Sierra Leone[151] African Union member
31  South Africa[20][152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164] African Union member
32  South Ossetia[165][166]
33  South Sudan[167][168] African Union member
34  Suriname[169]  OIC member

 UNASUR member

35  Tanzania[69][115][170][171][172][173][174][175][176][177][178] African Union member
36  Trinidad and Tobago[69]
37  Uganda[69][115][179][180][181][182] African Union member

 OIC member

38  Uruguay[45][115][183][184][185][186][187][188][189][190][191]  UNASUR member
39  Venezuela[20][192][193][194][195][196]  UNASUR member
40  Vietnam[197]
41  Zimbabwe[44][198][199][200][201][202][203][204][205][206][207] African Union member

States supporting Moroccan claims on Western Sahara
States expressing support for Moroccan claims and/or the Moroccan autonomy proposal.
  States that have "withdrawn", "frozen" or "suspended" their recognition of the SADR.
# State Notes Diplomatic mission[lower-alpha 1] References
1  Antigua and Barbuda
2  Azerbaijan [208][209]
3  Bahrain Arab League member [210]
4  Barbados
5  Benin African Union member [211]
6  Belarus [212]
7  Bolivia [20][213][214][215][216]
8  Bulgaria EU member [217][218]
9  Burkina Faso African Union member [219]
10  Burundi African Union member 2020
11  Cambodia [220]
12  Cameroon African Union member [211]
13  Central African Republic African Union member 2020 [221][222]
14  Chad African Union member
15  Chile [223][224][225][226]
16  Colombia [227][228]
17  Comoros African Union member
Arab League member		 2019 [229]
18  Congo African Union member
19  Costa Rica
20  Democratic Republic of Congo African Union member
21  Djibouti African Union member
Arab League member		 2020 [230]
22  Dominica
23  Dominican Republic
24  El Salvador
25  Equatorial Guinea African Union member [231]
26  Eswatini African Union member [232]
27  France Permanent member of UNSC
EU member		 [233][234][235]
[236][237]
28  Gabon African Union member 2020
29  Gambia African Union member 2020 [238][239][240]
30  Grenada
31  Guatemala
32  Guinea African Union member 2020 [241]
33  Guinea-Bissau African Union member
34  Haiti
35  Hungary EU member [242][243]
36  India
37  Indonesia [244][245]
38  Ivory Coast African Union member 2020
39  Jamaica
40  Kiribati
41  Kuwait Arab League member [246]
42  Liberia African Union member 2020
43  Madagascar African Union member [247][248]
44  Malawi African Union member
45  Maldives [249]
46  Nauru [250]
47  Netherlands EU member [251]
48  Niger African Union member [211][252]
49  North Macedonia [253]
50  Oman Arab League member
51  Papua New Guinea
52  Paraguay [254][255][256][257]
53  Peru [258]
54  Poland EU member [259][260][261][262]
55  Qatar Arab League member [263]
56  Romania EU member [264]
57  Russia Permanent member of UNSC [265][266]
58  Saint Lucia
59  Sao Tome and Principe African Union member 2020
60  Saudi Arabia Arab League member [267]
61  Senegal African Union member [268]
62  Serbia [269]
63  Seychelles African Union member [270]
64  Solomon Islands
65  South Sudan African Union member
66  St. Kitts and Nevis
67  St. Vincent and the Grenadines
68  Sudan African Union member
Arab League member		 [271][272]
69  Suriname
70  Togo African Union member
71  Turkey [273]
72  Tuvalu
73  Yemen Arab League member [274]
74  Zambia African Union member

Position of United Nations Security Council permanent members
France

France claims neutrality on the Western Sahara issue, despite its military involvement in the Western Sahara War on the side of Morocco and Mauritania (see Operation Lamantin). In 2009[275][276] and 2010,[277][278] France used the threat of its veto power to block the establishment of Human Rights monitoring by the MINURSO in Western Sahara. France has been a major backer of the Moroccan autonomy proposal and in the EU negotiated the concession of the advanced status to Morocco.[279]

United States
Main article: American policy on Western Sahara conflict
Photo of Former Assistant Secretary of State, David Welch (2005–2008) who in 2007 expressed strong support for Morocco and its autonomy plan in the conflict over Western Sahara, calling the plan a "serious and credible" solution.[280]

The Obama administration disassociated itself from the Moroccan autonomy plan in 2009, however, reversing the Bush-backed support of the Moroccan plan, and returning to a pre-Bush position, wherein the option of an independent Western Sahara is on the table again.[281]

In April 2009, 229 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, a clear majority and more than 50 more than the number who signed the letter in 2007, called on President Obama to support Morocco's autonomy plan and to assist in drawing the conflict to a close. The signers included Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Republican Minority Leader John Boehner. In addition to acknowledging that Western Sahara has become a recruiting post for radical Islamists, the letter affirmed that the conflict is "the single greatest obstacle impending the security and cooperation necessary to combat" terrorism in the Maghreb.[282] The letter referenced UN Security Council Resolution 1813 (2008), and encouraged President Obama to follow the policy set by President Clinton and followed by President Bush.[282] The congressmen expressed concerns about Western Sahara's viability. They referenced a UN fact-finding mission to Western Sahara which confirmed the State Department's view that the Polisario proposal, which ultimately stands for independence, would lead to a non-viable state.[282] In closing, the letter stated, "We remain convinced that the U.S. position, favoring autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty is the only feasible solution. We urge you to both sustain this longstanding policy, and to make clear, in both words and actions, that the United States will work to ensure that the UN process continues to support this framework as the only realistic compromise that can bring this unfortunate and longstanding conflict to an end."[282] Commenting on a 2004 free trade agreement with Morocco, US Trade Representative Robert Zoellick stated in a letter to Congressman Joe Pitts in response to his questioning, "the United States and many other countries do not recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara and have consistently urged the parties to work with the United Nations to resolve the conflict by peaceful means. The Free Trade Agreement will not include Western Sahara."[283][284]

Photo of Former US Ambassador to Morocco, Samuel L. Kaplan (2009–2013) who in April 2013 expressed that the position of the United States is that Morocco's autonomy plan "can't be the only basis in these negotiations".[285]

In April 2013, the United States proposed that MINURSO monitored human rights (as all the other UN mission since 1991) in Western Sahara, a move that Morocco strongly opposed, cancelling the annual African Lion military exercises with U.S. Army troops.[286] Also in mid-April, United States Ambassador to Morocco Samuel L. Kaplan declared during a conference in Casablanca that the Moroccan autonomy plan "can't be the only basis in these negotiations", referring to the UN sponsored talks between the Polisario Front and Morocco.[287]

States which have not announced any position

The following states and entities have not announced any position:

Positions of international organizations
Organization Membership Position
African Union (Formerly OAU) 22 February 1982 The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a fully recognized AU founding member.[288] The African Union supports the right of self-determination of the Sahrawi people.[289]
Andean Community of Nations 26 October 2011 (Observer) The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is an Observer member in the framework of the Andean Parliament.[290][291]
Arab League Not a member. The Arab League supports "the integrity of the Moroccan Territorial Sovereignty" without specifying a position on a solution to the conflict.
Arab Maghreb Union Not a member. The Arab Maghreb Union has not made a unanimous statement about its position on the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front.
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Not a member. The CARICOM supports the right of the Western Sahara people's to self-determination, consistent with the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations.[292]
Community of Latin American and Caribbean States Not a member. The CELAC supports efforts by all parties to achieve a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution that would provide for the right of self-determination for the inhabitants.[40]
European Union Not a member. The EU supports the efforts by the Secretary General of the United Nations and his Personal Envoy to find a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution which will allow the self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara as provided for in the resolutions of the United Nations.[293][294]
Non-Aligned Movement Not a member. The NAM supports the right of the Western Sahara people's to self-determination, consistent with the principles and purposes of the Charter of the United Nations and General Assembly resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960.[295]
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Not a member. The OIC supports the achievement of a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution that would provide for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara consistent with relevant resolutions
Rio Group Not a member. The Rio Group supports the resolutions adopted by the UN to achieve a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution that leads to the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara, in the context of compatible accords with the principles of the UN charter and the Resolution 1514 (XV) of the General Assembly and other pertinent resolutions.[296][297]
Union of South American Nations Not a member. The UNASUR supports for the achievement of a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution that would provide for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara consistent with relevant resolutions.[40]
 United Nations Not a member. The UN does not recognize Moroccan claims, as the Western Sahara remains in its list of Non-Self-Governing Territories since 1963. The Security Council had argued for direct negotiations between Morocco and the Polisario Front.[298] It had approved more than 100 resolutions supporting the right of Self-determination of the Sahrawi people.

The SADR is also a member of the Asian-African Strategic Partnership, formed at the 2005 Asian-African Conference, over Moroccan objections to SADR participation.[299]

In 2006, the SADR participated in a conference of the Permanent Conference of Political Parties of the Latin American and the Caribbean.[300]

African Union

On 22 February 1982, the SADR secured membership in the Organisation of African Unity.[301]

The African Union (formerly the OAU) has given the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic full recognition,[288] and accepted it as a member state (which has led Morocco to leave the union.[302]). Mohamed Abdelaziz, president of the SADR, has been vicepresident of the OUA in 1985, and of the AU in 2002.

European Union

The European Union supports the right of self-determination of the Sahrawi people (the MINURSO UN-sponsored referendum),[303] but does not recognize the Polisario Front.[304] Over practical issues such as fishing in the EEZ the EU deals with Morocco as the country currently exercising "jurisdiction, but not sovereignty" over the Western Sahara territory.[305] In addition, members of the EFTA trade bloc have made statements excluding the Western Sahara from the Moroccan-EFTA free trade agreement.[306] In December 2016, the European Court of Justice reaffirmed in Council v Front populaire pour la libération de la saguia-el-hamra et du rio de oro (Front Polisario) that Morocco has no basis for sovereignty over Western Sahara[307] and that trade deals with Morocco cannot apply to the occupied territory.[308]

United Nations

Since 1966, the United Nations request for the celebration of a referendum for enabling the "indigenous population" to exercise freely their right to self-determination.[309] Since 1979, the United Nations has recognized the Polisario Front as the representative of the people of Western Sahara, and considered Morocco as an occupying force.[8]

Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan stressed, in his last report on Western Sahara, to the Security Council:

"The Security Council would not be able to invite parties to negotiate about Western Saharan autonomy under Moroccan sovereignty, for such wording would imply recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, which was out of the question as long as no States Member of the United Nations had recognized that sovereignty".[310]
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See also

Notes
  1. The dates when countries had consulates in Dakhla and Laayoune, Western Sahara.

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