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Spanish Sahara

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Spanish Sahara

Spanish Sahara
n
(Placename) the former name (until 1975) of Western Sahara
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Noun1.Spanish Sahara - an area in northwestern Africa with rich phosphate deposits; under Moroccan control since 1992
Al-Magrib, Kingdom of Morocco, Maroc, Marruecos, Morocco - a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956


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The UN has passed over a hundred resolutions on Western Sahara, the first, Resolution 3458 (XXX) in 1975, declared unequivocally that the General Assembly reaffirmed 'the inalienable right of the people of Spanish Sahara to self-determination, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 1541 (XV)'.
Although the International Court of Justice ruled in 1975 that the people of the former Spanish Sahara had the right of self-determination, thereby dismissing the Moroccan claim to the territory, and the United Nations General Assembly determined that the territory was not self-governing, Morocco and Mauritania ignored the (UNGA 3458) resolution and conquered the land accorded to them in the Madrid Accords signed with Spain in 1975.
Neither Ifni nor Spanish Sahara were quiet by any stretch of the imagination.
 
 
 
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