In 1976, in the Western Sahara, the Polisario Front proclaimed the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic.
Morocco annexed Western Sahara in 1976 but its claims of sovereignty have not been internationally recognised.
BBC: Morocco bans EU fishing vessels amid Western Sahara row
UN-monitored ceasefire, to be followed by a referendum on Western Sahara's future in 1992.
Moreover, Morocco's experience in Western Sahara suggests that money does not necessarily buy love.
Morocco is renegotiating a fishing agreement with Europe which includes the seas off Western Sahara.
ECONOMIST: Diplomacy over Western Sahara: Morocco v Algeria | The
Campaigners say it is the biggest demonstration since Morocco took control of Western Sahara.
ECONOMIST: Diplomacy over Western Sahara: Morocco v Algeria | The
Officially, at least, Britain has provided no more military help to Morocco for use in Western Sahara.
Western Sahara has been fighting for independence from Morocco for decades, despite an official ceasefire since 1991.
In September, the minister was stripped both of his intelligence network and of overall responsibility for Western Sahara.
When Spain pulled out of Western Sahara 25 years ago, the Moroccans moved in, insisting this was their territory.
Other ventures from the Western Sahara to Mongolia hint at the industry's potential.
The European Parliament said a new deal should be negotiated which does more to take the Western Sahara issue into account.
BBC: Morocco bans EU fishing vessels amid Western Sahara row
In 1976, Spain handed over the Western Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania.
If low population is so wonderful, why is nothing going on in Western Sahara, just about the least densely populated area on Earth?
In 1975, King Hassan launched the "Green March" with 350, 000 unarmed Moroccans waving flags and copies of the Koran crossing into Western Sahara.
UN's legal counsel told the Security Council that Morocco had no right to issue oil-exploration rights in Western Sahara without the consent of Western Saharans.
MEPs said the deal was illegal as it did not benefit the people living in the disputed Western Sahara, off which most of the fishing took place.
BBC: Morocco bans EU fishing vessels amid Western Sahara row
The committee was about to go into private session when the Labour MP Tessa Kingham asked Cook about an arms deal with Morocco, involving those 105mm guns in Western Sahara.
Outsiders such as Abkhazia, Kosovo, Northern Cyprus and Western Sahara have to make do with a place on lesser lists, such as those compiled for less political purposes by the UN Statistics Division.
According to the Foreign Office they'd already reached a preliminary view that refurbishment was not a violation of the cease-fire in Western Sahara in 1998, after contacts with the UN mission Minurso "in the region".
Britain is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council, and has always insisted it has acted correctly over issues like Western Sahara, not selling weapons to either side for use in the conflict.
Since then he has been calling on the Group of Friends of Western Sahara, consisting of Britain, France, Russia, Spain and the United States, to stop the stumbling talks between Morocco and Polisario from breaking down altogether.
ECONOMIST: Diplomacy over Western Sahara: Morocco v Algeria | The
In between our refusal and the hearing of the appeal, the United Nations in Western Sahara and in New York confirmed the refurbishment was within the terms of the cease-fire agreement and they were willing to supervise the refurbishment.
The Moroccans used them in the fighting and have now deployed them as their main weapon alongside the 900-mile sand wall, the "Berm" - that they constructed as a barrier between Western Sahara and the Saharawi camps in Algeria.
The only one of these that might fall into place is Western Sahara, where the energies of James Baker, a former American secretary of state, were engaged to get Morocco and Polisario to agree to a referendum next year.
The story starts back in January 1998, when Royal Ordinance, now part of BAe Systems, applied for an export licence to refurbish the 30 Moroccan guns in Western Sahara and also, according to a confidential document we have seen, supply six new guns.
According to the Foreign Office, there were seven meetings here between 1st February 1999 and June 21st 1999, when the British team finally sent a telex back to the Foreign Office on an agreement they said they'd reached with the UN Department of Peace Keeping Operations - DPKO - and with Minurso, the UN mission in Western Sahara.
The search for Atlantis has led archaeologists and thrillseekers to the Caribbean, the Azores, Canaries, Iceland, Crete, Tunisia, Sweden, the coast of Western Africa and even the Sahara.
"Formula 1 car racing has always remained the bastion of the western world, " said company chairman Subrata Roy Sahara.
The Algerian Interior Ministry also said that 107 foreign workers and 685 local employees had been released, following the end of the hostage-taking by Islamist militants at the Western-run In Amenas gas facility, in the Sahara desert.
应用推荐