MINURSO: United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

	MINURSO

		United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

MINURSO

Background

Mandate

Facts & Figures

UN Documents

Map (PDF)

Peacekeeping

Home

Photo Gallery

Other Regional Missions

UNMEE

MONUC

UNMIL

UNOCI

UNMIS

UNAMID

MINURCAT


Following the agreement between the Government of Morocco and the Frente POLISARIO, MINURSO was deployed in September 1991 to monitor the ceasefire and to organize and conduct a referendum which would allow the people of Western Sahara to decide the Territory's future status

MINURSO provides assistance to UNHCR in organizing family visits, part of the confidence-building measures programme (CBM). The CBM is designed to faciliate greater contact between Saharan communities living in Western Sahara and in the refugee camps in the Tindouf area (Algeria). Tindouf, 22 June 2007.
UN Photo/Rolla Hinedi

Mission Headquarters

MINURSO Mission Page

MINURSO Photos

MINURSO in brief

Confidence-Building Measures

From UN Headquarters

Maintained by the Peace and Security Section of the Department of Public Information
in cooperation with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.
© United Nations 2006