Morocco calls for mobilization of diplomacy and population to protect territorial integrity
Morocco, Politics, 8/27/1999

The Moroccan government called Thursday the diplomacy and all the components of society for mobilization in preparations for the UN-referendum scheduled in the Sahara July 2000.

Speaking to reporters after the cabinet weekly meeting, Khalid Alioua, the government spokesman, said the council, which heard reports by the interior and foreign affairs ministers, stressed the need for the Moroccan diplomacy and society to show mobilization to preserve the country's territorial integrity and prepare the public opinion for the self-determination referendum that the United Nations is planning to hold in the Sahara by July 2000.

The Moroccan foreign affairs department is busy working on a plan to reactivate Morocco's diplomacy abroad to campaign in favor of Morocco's national cause and defend the country's territorial sovereignty.

The referendum will determine whether the Sahara, a former Spanish colony retrieved by Morocco in 1975 under the Madrid accords, would remain Moroccan territory or set up on its own as claimed by the Algeria-backed Polisario secessionists.

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