Katana VentraIP

Madrid Accords

The Madrid Accords,[b] formally the Declaration of Principles on Western Sahara, was a treaty between Spain, Morocco, and Mauritania setting out six principles which would end the Spanish presence in the territory of Spanish Sahara and arrange a temporary administration in the area pending a referendum.

For the Madrid Peace Conference, see Madrid Conference of 1991.

Declaration of Principles on Western Sahara by Spain, Morocco and Mauritania

14 November 1975 (1975-11-14)

Madrid, Spain

19 November 1975 (1975-11-19)[a]

The territory had been a Spanish province and former colony. The agreement was signed in Madrid on 14 November 1975, six days before Franco died, although it was never published on the Boletin Oficial del Estado. This agreement conflicted with the Law on decolonization of Sahara, ratified by the Spanish Parliament (Cortes) on 18 November.[1] Under the Madrid agreement, the territory would then be divided between Morocco and Mauritania, with no role for either the Polisario Front or the Sahrawi people generally. Following the accords, the Polisario relocated from the Mauritanian border to Algeria.

Sahrawi nationalism

Douglas E. Ashford, Johns Hopkins University, The Irredentist Appeal in Morocco and Mauritania, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 5, 1962–12, pp. 641–651

Tony Hodges (1983), Western Sahara: The Roots of a Desert War, Lawrence Hill Books ( 0-88208-152-7)

ISBN

Anthony G. Pazzanita (2006), Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara, Scarecrow Press

Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem, "Mauritania: A Saharan Frontier State", Journal of North Africa Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3–4, Sep–Dec. 2005, pp. 491–506.

Pennell, C. R. (2000), Morocco since 1830. A History, New York University Press ( 0-8147-6676-5)

ISBN

Thompson, Virginia; Adloff, Richard (1980), The Western Saharans. Background to Conflict, Barnes & Noble Books ( 0-389-20148-0)

ISBN

Mundy, Jacob, "", January 2006.

How the US and Morocco seized Western Sahara