Moroccans commemorate the anniversary of the Green March in the context of new developments in the case of the Sahara at the international level, marked by the amplification of international support to the project of autonomy proposed by Morocco as a democratic, civilized and superior plan to let the Sahara issue out of the impasse since more than three decades.

Thus, Late Majesty Hassan II announced on October 16 1975, the organization of this popular march who allowed the Moroccan people recover its southern provinces, after confirmation by the International Court of Justice in The Hague, in its advisory opinion, that the Sahara was not a "terra nullius", and that legal links and relations "Beia" existed between the Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahara, which was a clear recognition of the legitimacy of the claim by Morocco to recover their occupied lands.

On November 6, 1975, 350,000 Moroccans marched to the southern provinces of the Kingdom with the force of conviction and citizenship, in order to release the Spanish occupation, raising the national flag high in the sky of Laayoune (February 28, 1976) and putting an end to the colonial presence in the Moroccan Sahara.  

Since then, the March for the preservation of territorial integrity and accelerated development continue for the region's integration into the national socio-economic tissue.

  The march for development was started by an emergency program to make up for deficiencies afflicting infrastructure, and the march took an accelerated pace.

The housing projects is one of the main axes of development in the southern provinces. These projects have contributed to the ongoing urban development, as evidenced by the programs' Al Wahda, Al Aaouda "and" Al Wifak (20,000 units) in addition to the many subdivisions and programs against slums, and restructuring of neighborhoods experiencing a deficit in infrastructure.  

This is a long-term momentum  whose objective is the development of the provinces to enable them accede to expanded regionalization, advocated by autonomy plan.

This is consistent with the philosophy to give Moroccan regions the capacity to assert their potentialities for investment and human and natural resources to serve the nation and citizens.

Source: MAP
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