UNITED NATIONS 2 Apr (ANA) - Morocco's ambassador to the UN has complained to the Security Council after the Polisario Front separatist movement sent some of its fighters to UN-monitored buffer zones in the Western Sahara region.

 

Omar Hilale said on Sunday that the Algerian-backed Polisario Front, which fought a guerrilla war against Morocco until 1991, deployed some of its fighters to Western Sahara's Al Mahbes area where they "set up tents, dug a ditch and built constructions using sandbags".

 

The ambassador said that the fighters left Algeria's Tindouf camps on "military vehicles", and warned that their actions "constituted a casus belli [justification for war]."

 

"Morocco, which has so far shown restraint and a high sense of responsibility at the request of the UN secretary-general, will not stand idly by the deterioration of the situation on the ground," he said.(ANA)

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