Havana (Cuba), May 11, 2023 (SPS)- Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, saluted, in a tweet, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, stressing that the latter embodied the aspirations of the Sahrawi people in Independence and sovereignty.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro or simply the POLISARIO Front, was established on May 10, 1973, in order to put an end to the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by Spain and then Morocco.
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a founding member of the African Union and has been recognized as a sovereign country by more than eighty countries, most of which are from Africa and Latin America.
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