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Morocco 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 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.
·United Kingdom
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For the first time since his accession to the throne, King Mohammed VI has established a national holiday to celebrate the ratification of the UN resolution in favour of the Moroccan autonomy plan in the Sahara.
The King of Morocco Mohammed VI named it "Aid Al Wahda" (Unity Day) and will be celebrated on 31 October of each year.
·Paris, France
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