In November, Morocco sent troops into a UN-patrolled buffer zone to reopen a key road leading to Mauritania.
The Polisario responded by declaring the 1991 ceasefire null and void, arguing that the road had not existed when the truce was signed.The administration of US President Donald Trump then broke decades of precedent by recognising Morocco's full sovereignty over the territory, in exchange for Rabat normalising relations with Israel.
UN-led negotiations involving Morocco and the Polisario, with Algeria and Mauritania as observers, have been suspended since March 2019."But at the same time, we will keep up the armed struggle, based on past experiences," he said at an online press conference alongside the group's permanent representative at the UN, Omar Sidi Mohamed.
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