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UN Mission resumes voter identification

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    The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) on Tuesday resumed the identification of voters for a referendum in July 2000.

    The referendum is to allow the people of Western Sahara to decide between independence and integration with Morocco, which annexed the former Spanish colony in 1975.

    The identification is initially taking place in two centres, one in Laayoune and the other at Camp Smara, a refugee camp in the Tindouf area in Algeria.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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