United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara information
United Nations peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara
United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
Location of Western Sahara in North Africa
Abbreviation
MINURSO
Formation
24 April 1991
Type
Peacekeeping Mission
Legal status
Active
Headquarters
Laayoune, Western Sahara
Head
Alexander Ivanko [ru] (Russia), Special Representative
Force Commander
Major General Fakhrul Ahsan
Parent organization
United Nations Security Council
Website
minurso.unmissions.org
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Western Sahara conflict
Background
Spanish Sahara
Greater Morocco
Greater Mauritania
Moroccan Army of Liberation
Movement for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Wadi el Dhahab
Polisario Front
Sahrawi National Union Party
Madrid Accords
Partition agreement
Regions
Saguia el-Hamra
Río de Oro
Southern Provinces
Tiris al-Gharbiyya
Free Zone
Politics
Annexation of Western Sahara
Political status of Western Sahara
Foreign relations of Morocco
Makhzen
Politics of the SADR
Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs
Clashes
Ifni War
Zemla Intifada
Western Sahara War
First Intifada
Independence Intifada
Gdeim Izik
Arab Spring protests
2020–present clashes
Timeline
Issues
Refugees
camps
Sahrawi nationality
Green March
Moroccan settlers
Moroccan Wall
Human rights
Peace process
UN resolutions
UN visiting mission
UN referendum mission
ICJ Advisory Opinion
Settlement Plan
Houston Agreement
Baker Plan
Manhasset negotiations
Autonomy Proposal
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Left a car of MINURSO, right a post of the Frente polisario in 2017 in southern Western SaharaMINURSO cars in Laayoune.
The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (Arabic: بعثة الأمم المتحدة لتنظيم استفتاء في الصحراء الغربية; French: Mission des Nations Unies pour l'Organisation d'un Référendum au Sahara Occidental; Spanish: Misión de las Naciones Unidas para la Organización de un Referéndum en el Sáhara Occidental; MINURSO) is the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, established in 1991 under United Nations Security Council Resolution 690[1] as part of the Settlement Plan, which had paved way for a cease-fire in the conflict between Morocco and the Polisario Front (representing the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) over the contested territory of Western Sahara (formerly Spanish Sahara).
MINURSO's mission was to monitor the cease-fire and to organize and conduct a referendum in accordance with the Settlement Plan, which would enable the Sahrawi people of Western Sahara to choose between integration with Morocco and independence. This was intended to constitute a Sahrawi exercise of self-determination, and thus complete Western Sahara's still-unfinished process of decolonization (Western Sahara is the last major territory remaining on the UN's list of non-decolonized territories.)
^United Nations Security Council Resolution690. S/RES/690(1991) 29 April 1991. Retrieved 2008-05-02.
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