The Security Council emphasised “the urgent need for the mission to return to full functionality” and called on all parties to co-operate fully with Minurso’s operations.

Spain withdrew from Western Sahara in 1976 with fighting later breaking out between Morocco and the Polisario Front, the Western Sahara independence movement.

A peace deal was signed in 1991 with Minurso deployed to monitor a ceasefire between Morocco and the Polisario and to organise, if the parties agree, a referendum on self-determination.

Morocco,