Western Sahara Sample Clauses

Western Sahara. Special Representative.—

Western Sahara. Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Western Sahara and Head of MINURSO.—Colin Stewart (Canada).

Western Sahara. It has its governmental seat in the refugee camps in Tindouf and is a member of the Organization of African Union. At the time of writing, it is recognised by 47 States (not including Western States), 35 other States, many of which in the last few years, having withdrawn or ‘frozen’ their recognition pending the final solution of the dispute. 24 A/34/427-S/13503, Xxxxx X and II, Official Record of the Security Council, Thirty-Fourth Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1979. soon moved to occupy the southern part of the Territory vacated by Mauritania, despite the repeated protests of the international community.25 The diplomatic deadlock and the hostilities between POLISARIO and the Moroccan forces continued in the following years: Morocco responded to the increasing military losses by elevating a sand wall of over three metres cutting diagonally for over 2000 km. the territory of Western Sahara and by positioning an estimated three millions landmines on the their side of the wall. Also in the face of a military situation increasingly stabilised by the completion of the berm, a step forward was made in 1988 with the signature by Morocco and POLISARIO of a Settlement Plan promoted by the UN and the Organization of African Union for the organisation of a referendum and the exercise of self-determination of the people of Western Sahara, as identified by the 1974 Spanish census.26 The plan was endorsed by the Security Council in 1990 and led to the conclusion of a cease-fire between Morocco and POLISARIO in 1991. The 1990s saw the unfolding of a new phase in the Western Sahara conflict, in which all efforts were devoted to the implementation of the Settlement Plan, including the appointment of a Secretary General’s Special Representative for Western Sahara and the deployment of a small UN peace-keeping mission (MINURSO). The main stumbling block revealed to be the identification of those entitled to vote with the attempt of Morocco to include the many settlers who had been moved from Morocco in the successful attempt to change the demography of the Territory and with the problems related to the thousands of Saharawi refugees living in other countries.27 Another problem identified by the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, Xxxxx Xxxxx, was the lack of enforcement mechanisms, should the referendum have resulted in a result in favour of independence.28 In sum, while the cease-fire continued to hold, the political process did not make any major pr...

Western Sahara. Finally, the article concludes by reflecting on the pos- sibilities of challenging the FPA be- fore the International Court of Jus- xxxx (ICJ), the European Court of Justice (ECJ) or a domestic court and on the broader implications of its signature for the present diplomatic stalemate in the solution of the Western Sahara dispute. The main thesis presented is that the agreement is not per se contrary to international law as its text does not include Western Sahara; however, if its interpretation and practice should evolve to include Western Sahara in its geographical scope of application, as it occurred with pre- vious EC-Morocco fisheries agree- ments, it may be considered invalid with regard to Western Sahara due to a manifest lack of legal compe- tence of Morocco related to the Ter- ritory and contrary to international law, insofar as it does not keep into due account the will of the people of Western Sahara. As a result, the agreement may be considered non- opposable with regard to the West- ern Sahara and may give rise in the future to a right to compensation against the European Community for the use of natural resources by the people of Western Sahara and a possible future State of Western Sa- hara. As things stand today, the chances that such right may be en- forced are very slim.

Western Sahara. It has its governmental seat in the refugee camps in Tindouf and is a member of the Organization of African Union. At the time of writing, it is recognised by 47 States (not including Western States), 35 other States, many of which in the last few years, having withdrawn or ‘frozen’ their recognition pending the final solution of the dispute. 24 A/34/427-S/13503, Annex I and II, Official Record of the Security Council, Thirty- Fourth Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1979.

Western Sahara. Zambia Zimbabwe But “EMEA” expressly excludes any of the dependent territories that are included in the list of countries, territories or geographic areas included within “Americas” set out in Part 1 of this Schedule “C” and the territories of France included within “APAC” set out in Part 2 of this Schedule “C”. Without limiting the generally applicable prohibitions set out in section 8 of this Agreement the following countries are excluded from EMEA or any other Zone for purposes of this License: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen and no rights are granted for use of the Software in these excluded countries. SCHEDULE “D” PRIVACY POLICY

Western Sahara. Special Representative.—Hany Abdel-Aziz (Egypt).

Western Sahara. Houston Declaration (1997) • Compromise Agreement on Troop Confinement: Lisbon (August 1997) • Compromise Agreement on Outstanding Identification Issues: London (July 1997)

Western Sahara. Western Sahara is a territory in north-west Africa bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the north-east, Mauritania to the east and south, while its west coast faces the Atlantic. It was colonised by the Kingdom of Spain, following the Berlin (Germany) Conference of 1884 and, from the Second World War, it was a province of Spain. After its independence in 1956, the Kingdom of Morocco demanded the ‘liberation’ of Western Sahara, considering that that territory belonged to it. On 14 December 1960, the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation (‘the UN’) adopted Resolution 1514 (XV) on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. In 1963, following the transmission of information by the Kingdom of Spain pursuant to Article 73(e) of the Charter of the United Nations, the UN added Western Sahara to its list of non-self-governing territories. It is still on that list. On 20 December 1966, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 2229 (XXI) on the Question of Ifni and the Spanish Sahara, reaffirming the ‘inalienable right of the peoples … of the Spanish Sahara to self- determination’. It requested the Kingdom of Spain, as the administering power, to ‘determine, at the earliest possible date, in conformity with the aspirations of the indigenous people of Spanish Sahara and in consultation with the Governments of Mauritania and Morocco and any other interested party, the procedures for the holding of a referendum under [UN] auspices with a view to enabling the indigenous population of the Territory to exercise freely its right to self-determination’. The applicant, the Front populaire pour la libération de la saguia-el-hamra et du rio de oro (Front Polisario) was created on 10 May 1973. According to Article 1 of its constituting document, drawn up at its 13th Congress in December 2011, it is ‘a national liberation movement, the fruit of the long resistance of the Sahrawi people against the various forms of foreign occupation’. On 20 August 1974, the Kingdom of Spain informed the UN that it proposed to organise a referendum in Western Sahara under UN auspices.