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United Nations Security Council resolution 621, adopted unanimously on 20 September 1988, after hearing a joint report by the
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(OAU), the Council noted an agreement between
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and the Frente Polisario on 30 August 1988 to the joint proposals by the Secretary-General and OAU. The Council noted its anxiety to those efforts to support a referendum for
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of the people of
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, organised and supervised by the United Nations in conjunction with the OAU. In this vein, the resolution decided to appoint a Special Representative for Western Sahara, requesting the Secretary-General to transmit a report on the holding of a referendum in Western Sahara and ways to ensure the organisation of such a referendum by the UN and OAU.


See also

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(1987–1991) *
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Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), also known as the Sahrawi Republic and Western Sahara, is a partially recognized state in the western Maghreb, which claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara, but controls only ...
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United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (; ; ; MINURSO) is the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara, established in 1991 under United Nations Security Council Resolution 690 as part of the Settlement P ...


References


Text of the Resolution at undocs.org


External links

* {{UNSCR 1988 0621 0621 September 1988 1980s in Western Sahara