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Propositions of the Kingdom of Morocco to resolve the Western Sahara conflict

Proposal presented to the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General of United Nations, James Baker, in December 2003

"Contribution du Royaume du Maroc à la négociation d'une solution politique mutuellement acceptable de la question du Sahara" (sic) [in French]

 

 

Proposal presented to the Security Council in April 2007

"Moroccan initiative for negotiating an autonomy statute for the Sahara region" (sic)

Annex to the letter dated 11 April 2007 from the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2007/206)

[Original: Arabic, English, French and Spanish]

"Consulates" opened in the occupied territories of Western Sahara

LIST OF "CONSULATES" OPENED IN THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF WESTERN SAHARA

(in alphabetical order)

 

27 States have opened "consulates" in the occupied territories of Western Sahara (El Aaiun or Dakhla-Villa Cisneros)

15 States who had previously recognized SADR and opened "consulates" in the occupied territories of Western Sahara (*)

 

Arab United Emirates (04/11/2020, El Aaiun)

 

Bahrein (14/12/2020, El Aaiun)

Burkina Faso (23/10/2020, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

Burundi (28/02/2020, El Aaiun) (*)

 

Cape Verde (30/08/2022, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

Comoros (18/12/2019, El Aaiun)

Côte d'îvoire (18/02/2020, El Aaiun)

 

Democratic Republic of the Congo (19/12/2020, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros)

Djibouti (23/10/2020, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros)

 

Equatorial Guinea (23/10/2020, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

Eswatini (27/10/2020, El Aaiun) (*)

 

Gabon (17/01/2020, El Aaiun)

Gambia (07/01/2020, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros)

Guatemala (01/12/2022, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

Guinea Bissau (23/10/2020, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

Guinea (Conakry) (17/01/2020, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros)

 

 

Haïti (14/12/2020, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

 

Jordan (04/03/2021, El Aaiun)

 

Liberia (12/03/2020, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

 

Malawi (29/07/2021, El Aaiun) (*)

 

Republic of Central Africa (23/01/2020, El Aaiun)

 

Sao Tomé and Príncipe (23/01/2020, El Aaiun) (*)

Senegal (05/04/2021, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros)

Surinam (11/03/2021, Dajla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

Sierra Leone (30/08/2021, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

 

Togo (07/06/2022, Dakhla-Villa Cisneros) (*)

 

Zambia (27/10/2020, El Aaiun) (*)

 

 

States who opened "consulates" in occupied Western Sahara (by continents)

 

Africa:

Burkina Fasso, Burundi, Comoros, Côte d'îvoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Esawtini, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea (Conakry), Liberia, Malawi, Republic of Central Africa, Sao Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Togo and Zambia

 

Amérique:

Guatemala, Haïti and Surinam

 

Asie:

Arab United Emirates, Bahrein, and Jordan

 

 

(*) States who previously recognized SADR and opened "consulates" in occupied Western Sahara:

Burkina Fasso, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, Esawtini (Swaziland), Guinea Bissau, Haïti, Liberia, Malawi, Sao Tomé and Príncipe, Sierra Leone, Surinam, Togo, Zambia.

Constitution of July, 29, 2011

[unofficial translation by Jefri J. Ruchti]

Legislation

Dahir n° 1-58-250, 21 safar 1378 (6 September 1958)

enacting Moroccan nationality Code
[2011 consolidated version] [in French]

 

Dahir N° 1-02-207, 25 Rejeb 1423 (3 October 2002)

enacting the law n° 77-00 amending and fulfilling the Dahir n°1-58-378, 3 Joumada I 1378 (15 November 1958) containing the Press and Edition Code [in French]

 

Dahir n° 1-59-413, 28 joumada II 1382 (26 November 1962)

enacting the Criminal Code
[2011 consolidated version] [in French]

 

Dahir dated 26 moharrem 1393 (2 March 1973)

 

Decree No. 2.75.311 of 11 Rajab 1395 (21 July 1975)

defining the Closing Lines of Bays on the Coasts of Morocco and the Geographical Co-ordinates of the Limit of Territorial Waters and the Exclusive Fishing Zone

 

Dahir nº 1-81-179, 3 joumada II 1401 (8 April 1981)

enacting Act No. 1-81 datted 18 December 1980, establishing a 200-nautical-mile Exclusive Economic Zone off the Moroccan coasts

 

Dahir nº 1-97-84, 23 kaada 1447 (2 April 1997)

enacting the Statute nº 47-96 concerning the organisation of the region [in French]

 

Dahir nº 1-15-83 del 20  ramadán 1436 (7 July 2015)

enacting the Organic Statute  nº 111-14 concerning the regions [in French]

 

Dahir n° 1-20-03, 11 rejeb 1441 (6 March 2020)

enacting the Statute nº 38-17 amending the statute nº 1-81 establishing an economic exclusive zone of 200 maritime miles along the Moroccan coast [in French] 

 

Positions, Letters of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations, to the AU, to the OAU and others and Communiqués

Intervention of the Representative of Morocco before the 4th Commission to protest against the inclusion of Mauritania and the Spanish Sahara among the Non Autonomous Territories, 14 October 1957

A/C.4/SR.670

 

Letter dated 20 August 1960

addressed to the Secretary-General demanding the inclusion in the agenda of the General Assembly of the item "The problem of Mauritania"
The letter annexes an "Explanatory memorandum" where Morocco states that the "independence of Mauritania" is a "separation of this region from the rest of Moroccan territory"

 

Letter dated 3 December 1960

Rejecting the admission of Mauritania in the United Nations because it was a "serious infringement" of its "national territory"

 

Intervention of the Representative of Morocco before the General Assembly to protest against the inclusion of the Spanish Sahara among the Non Autonomous Territories, 9 December 1963

[at the same occasion the representative of Mauritania declared that the Spanish Sahara was an integral part of Mauritania]

 

Letter dated 16 July 1970

The Government of Morocco "hopes" the dispatch of a "United Nations special mission to the Territory" thereby "ensuring the organization of a free referendum in accordance with recognized international standards" amd reiterates "its acceptance of and support for any just and peaceful solution to the problem which will enable the indigenous population to determine its own future freely and democratically"

 

Letter dated 9 July 1974

Rejecting the holding of the Referendum of self-determination, which organization Spain had just announced.

 

Letter dated 27 January 1975

addressed to the Chairman of the Fourth Committee demanding to include Ceuta, Melilla, Vélez de la Gomera, Alhucemas and Chafarinas in the list of Non-Self-Governing-Territories
Response of Spain in letter dated 12 February 1975
A/AC.109/477 and Annex B to A/10023/Rev.1
 
 

Letter dated 27 May 1975

from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Morocco to the United Nations, addressed to the Secretary-General

 

Letter dated 30 June 1975

addressed to the Chairman of the Fourth Committee demanding Spain to stop certains measures taken regardin Moroccan subjects in Ceuta "a Moroccan town still under Spanish domination" (sic)
A/AC.109/498 and Annex C to A/10023/Rev.1

 

Letter dated 19 October 1975

 

Letter dated 5 October 1979

addressed to the Chairman of the Fourth Committee stating that Western Sahara is "an integral part of Moroccan territory and that "there is no longer any justification for any consideration of this question by the Fourth Committee and such consideration vould constitute blatant interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign State", so that "accordingly, no petitioner should be granted the right to a hearing in the Fourth Committee"

 

Letter dated 23 February 1982

from the Moroccan Minister of State for Foreign Affairs to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity

 

Letter dated 3 March 1982

Expressing its rejection of the admission of the SADR in the OAU and annexing the message addressed to the Chairman of the thirty-eigth sesion of the Council of Ministers of the OAU, held in February 1982, on behalf of the representatives of the 19 member countries which withdrew from the work of the session

 

Letter dated 4 November 1982

Expressing again its rejection of the admission of the SADR in the OAU and making some comments on the transmission to the UN of only one of the Decisions adopted by the OAU Implementation Committee

 

Letter dated 2 August 1985

Reiterating the solemn commitment of the Kingdom of Morocco to collaborate fully with the United Nations in order to hold the referendum of self-determination in Western Sahara

 

Letter dated 17 May 1988 from the Permanent Representatives of Algeria and Morocco to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

on the occasion of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries

 

Letter dated 19 December 1992

Answering to the allegation of "the other party" (Polisario Front) about a scheduled meeting between the Special Representative of the SG for Western Sahara and certain chieftains of Sahrawi tribes

 

Letter dated 7 May 1999

from the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Morocco addressed to the Secretary-General in response to measures proposed by the United Nations for the identification and the appeal procedure of persons requesting to participate in the Western Sahara Referendum

 

Letter dated 25 February 2002

Rejecting the partition of the Territory of the Western Sahara

 

Letter dated 15 July 2002

Accepting the project of "Framework Agreement" "while respecting the Kingdom of Morocco’s prerogatives of sovereignty

 

Letter dated 9 April 2004

Rejecting the “Peace Plan for the Self-Determination of Western Sahara” (Baker Plan) and declaring "the final nature of the autonomy solution is not negotiable" "within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty"

 

Letter dated 24 September 2004

Memorandum dated 24 September 2004 of the Kingdom of Morocco concerning the regional dispute [sic] over Sahara [sic]

 

Letter dated 26 January 2006

Declaring that "under the Madrid Accord of 14 November 1975 concluded with Spain, remains the sole competent administrative authority over the entire Territory of Western Sahara"

 

Letter dated 6 de diciembre de 2007

Protesting against the organization of the Congress of the Polisario Front in Tifariti and reiterating "its determination to preserve its rights over the entire territory"

 

Letter dated 12 December 2007

Declaring that "the area east of the berm" is "an integral part of the Moroccan Sahara"

 

Letter dated 27 May 2008

Protesting against military parades in Tifariti

 

Letter dated 10 April 2009

Protesting against a demonstration in front of the division berm of the Western Sahara

 

Letter dated 6 April 2015

Expressing opposition of the Kingdom of Morocco to any role of the African Union in the question of the Moroccan [sic] Sahara

 

Communiqué of the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs following the statements of Ban Ki-Moon, on March, 8, 2016

[in French]

 

Communiqué following the meeting of the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, on March, 16, 2016

[in French]

 

Letter dated 24 April 2016

Rejeting the "interference" of the African Union in the question of Western Sahara

 

Letter dated 28 April 2017 from the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

Morocco's position on the Guerguerat crisis


Letter dated 10 May 2017 from the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary General

Morocco reaffirms its categorical opposition to any involvement, in any form whatsoever, of the African Union in the question of the Moroccan Sahara [SIC] and to any exchange, interaction or contact on this issue between the United Nations, its Secretariat or its bodies and the African Union
A/71/902–S/2017/419

 

Letter dated 1 April 2018

Concerning alleged violations by the "polisario" [sic] of the Military Agreement n. 1

 

Letter dated 17 May 2018

Denouncing alleged violations by the « polisario » (sic) of the Military Agreement n. 1

 

Letter dated 21 May 2018

Annex: Communiqué by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Kingdom of Morocco, on alleged violations of the Military Agreement n. 1 by the Polisario Front

 

Letter dated 29 June 2018

Protesting the circulation as United Nations official documents of the letters by the « polisario » (sic)

 

Letter dated 3 July 2018 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Morocco to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

Morocco rejects African Union involvement in the Western Sahara situation

 

Letter dated 6 August 2018

Before the briefing of the SG Personal Envoy, Horst Köhler, to the Security Council concerning the relaunch of the negotiations between the Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco

 

Letter dated 10 January 2019

denouncing new alleged violations by the « polisario » (sic) of the Military Agreement n. 1
S/2019/35

 

Letter dated 29 April 2019

Transmitting the text of the "Final Declaration of the African Ministerial Conference on the African Union’s support to the United Nations political process on the regional dispute over the Sahara" (sic)
S/2019/351

 

Letter dated 19 June 2019

denouncing that « polisario » (sic) "has continued its unacceptable violations" of the military agreements and Security Council resolutions
S/2019/507

 

Letter dated 9 December 2019

denouncing the "provocation" (sic) of holding of "a so-called congress" (sic) of the "polisario" (sic) in the locality of Tifariti, east of the "defence structure" (sic) in the "Moroccan Sahara" (sic).

 

Letter dated 22 January 2020

denouncing the continuation by the “polisario” (sic) armed separatist group (sic) of its destabilizing actions (sic)  for regional peace, security and stability in Guerguerat

 

Letter dated 29 June 2020

with a protest because Namibia "circulated a misleading letter, indicating that it came from a so-called 'president' of a supposed 'sadr' and requesting its issuance as a document of the Council" (sic)
 
OFFICIAL RESPONSE OF NAMIBIA dated 2 July 2020

 

Letter dated 9 October 2020

Similar protest to that contained in the letter dated 29 June 2020 concerning letters of the Polisario Front and the SADR circulated by South-Africa and Timor-Leste

 

Letter dated 30 October 2020

Similar protest to that contained in the letters dated 29 June and 8 October 2020 concerning a letter of the Polisario Front and the SADR circulated by South-Africa

 

Letter dated 23 November 2020

Morocco's version of the Guerguerat crisis and the rupture of the cease-fire

 

Note verbale addressed to the Permanent Missions to the United Nations office and other international organizations, at Geneva, dated 14 December 2020

announcing the recognition by the United States of America "for the first time in its history" of the "full soveregnty of the Kingdom of Morocco over the entire region of the Moroccan Sahara"

 

Letter dated 19 January 2021

protest against the transmission by South-Africa to the Security Council of the decision taken by the Assembly of the African Union on December 6, 2020

 

Letter dated 24 February 2021

protest against the transmission by South-Africa to the Security Council of a letter of the SADR President and Secretary-General of the Frente Polisario and insulting him

 

Letter dated 23 March 2021

 

Communiqué dated 25 April 2021

 

Communiqué dated 6 May 2021

Morocco calls its Ambassador in Berlin back for consultations [in French] [in Arabic]

 

Communiqué dated 8 May 2021

Points from Morocco in reaction to the multiplication of statements by Spanish officials attempting to justify a serious act contrary to the spirit of partnership and good neighborhood (sic) [in French]

 

Statement dated 31 May 2021

Morocco-Spain Crisis: Statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad

 

Communiqué dated 11 June 2021

concerning the Resolution of the European Parliament of 10 June 2021 [in French]

 

Note to the Chair of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement, dated 14 July 2021

attacking Algeria for its support to the right of self-determination of the people of Western Sahara and calling for the so-called right to self-determination of the "Kabyle people"

 

Letter dated 14 September 2021

concerning the holding "for the first time" of "general legislative, commune-level and regional elections" throughout the national territory, "including in the Moroccan Sahara"

 

Letter dated 6 June 2022

the representative of Morocco at the United Nations says that Sultana Khaya is "an agent on the payroll of Algeria and 'polisario' " (sic)
Response by the representative of Algeria at the United Nations, dated 9 June 2022 [S/2022/473]
Response by the representative of Morocco to the representative of Algeria, dated 23 June 2022 [S/2022/509]
Response by the representative of Algeria to the representative of Morocco, dated 13 July 2022 [S/2022/555]

 

Communiqué of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated 27 October 2022

The Kingdom of Morocco welcomes the adoption today by the UN Security Council of resolution 2654 on the Moroccan Sabara (sic) issue

 

Letter dated 8 March 2023 from the Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council

protest against the transmission by South-Africa to the Security Council of a letter of the SADR President and Secretary-General of the Frente Polisario and insulting him
Response of the Frente POLISARIO (S/2023/219)

 

Communiqué of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated 4 April 2024

The Kingdom of Morocco "reminds" its "constant" position concerning the "Moroccan" Sabara (sic) issue [in French]

 

Official Reports

Kingdom of Morocco-Equity and Reconciliation Commission-Consultative Council for Human Rights 

Equity and Reconciliation Commission

Final Report (2009) 

vol. I: Truth, Equity and Reconciliation [in French]

vol. II: Truth and Responsibilites for the violations [in French]

vol. III: Reparation of the damages [in French]
 
 
 

Consultative Council for Human Rights

Report on the follow-up of the implementation of the recommendations of the Body for Equity and Reconciliation  (2009) [in French]

Report on the follow-up of the implementation of the recommendations of the Body for Equity and Reconciliation. Annex (2010) [en arabe]

 

 
 

Kingdom of Morocco-Consultative Commision for regionalisation

 Report on the advanced regionalisation (2011) [in French]

 

 

Kingdom of Morocco-Economic, Social and Environmental Council

Report "New developement model for the Southern Provinces" (sic) (October 2013)

Full textl [in French]

Synthesis [in French]

Judicial procedures

Kingdom of Morocco-Equity and Reconciliation Commission-Consultative Council for Human Rights 

Equity and Reconciliation Commission

Final Report (2009) 

vol. I: Truth, Equity and Reconciliation [in French]

vol. II: Truth and Responsibilites for the violations [in French]

vol. III: Reparation of the damages [in French]
 
 
 

Consultative Council for Human Rights

Report on the follow-up of the implementation of the recommendations of the Body for Equity and Reconciliation  (2009) [in French]

Report on the follow-up of the implementation of the recommendations of the Body for Equity and Reconciliation. Annex (2010) [en arabe]

 

 
 

Kingdom of Morocco-Consultative Commision for regionalisation

 Report on the advanced regionalisation (2011) [in French]

 

 

Kingdom of Morocco-Economic, Social and Environmental Council

Report "New developement model for the Southern Provinces" (sic) (October 2013)

Full textl [in French]

Synthesis [in French]

Speeches and Letters of the king of Morocco

Speech of Mohamed V claiming the "Moroccan Sahara", which included Mauritania (February, 25, 1958)

[in French]

 

Speech of Hassan II announcing the "green march" (October, 16, 1975)

[in French]

 

Message sent by Hassan II to the current Chairman of the OAU (28 August 1979)

[source: Western Sahara Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information, International Business Publications, Washington, 2013, p. 182-183]

 

Message sent by Hassan II to the current Chairman of the OAU (27  November 1979)

[source: Western Sahara Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information, International Business Publications, Washington, 2013, p. 183-184]


Message sent by Hassan II to the current Chairman of the OAU (21 January 1980)

 

Letter dated  23 February from the King of Morocco to the current Chairman of the Organization of African Unity (23 February 1982)

[published in the United Nations official document A/37/99 Annex I]

 

Letter dated  23 February from the King of Morocco to the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity (23 February 1982)

[published in the United Nations official document A/37/99 Annex II]

 

Speech of Hassan II before the General Assembly of the United Nations agreeing to hold a referendum on self-determination in Western Sahara (September, 27, 1983)

[United Nations official document A/38/PV.8]

 

Speech of Mohamed VI claiming territories of Spain (30 July 2002)

[in French]

 

Speech of Mohamed VI pretending that the UN Referendum for Western Sahara is "inapplicable" (6 November 2002)

[in French]

 

Speech of Mohamed VI stating that he will not cede "a single inch" of the Western Sahara (25 March 2006)

[in French]

 

Speech of Mohamed VI rejecting the enlargement of the MINURSO mandate "even concerning the question of human rights monitoring" (6 November 2014)

[in French]

 

Speech of Mohamed VI regarding the situation in Guerguerat and asking Spain to negotiate on the Western Sahara continental shelf (7 November 2020)

 

 

The contents of this page were updated on 06.06.2024.