A handout picture released by the Moroccan Royal Palace on November 6, 2021, shows King Mohammed VI delivering a speech to the nation on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the Green March, in the capital Rabat. - / AFP
Morocco's king on Friday, October 31, lauded as "historic" a United Nations Security Council decision to support his country's plan for Western Sahara, a disputed territory that has provoked decades of conflict between Rabat and the Sahrawi independence movement Polisario, backed by Algeria.
"We are opening a new and victorious chapter in the process of enshrining the Moroccan character of the Sahara, which is intended to bring this issue to a definitive close," King Mohammed VI said in a speech in which he expressed his "immense pride."
Morocco will proceed with "the updating and detailed formulation" of the plan to submit it "at a later date" to the UN, he said. The monarch added that the framework would serve as "a realistic and applicable solution" that "should constitute the sole basis for negotiation."
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