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Letter dated 29 January 2002 from the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, the Legal Counsel, addressed to the President of the Security Council
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- Author(s)
- United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
- Publisher
- United Nations
- Date
- 12 February 2002
- Original language
- en
- Identifiers
- UN_SYMBOL S/2002/161
- Link
- https://documents.un.org/api/symbol/access?s=S%2F2002%2F161&l=en&t=pdfAccessed 14 September 2026
Editorial annotation
Legal opinion requested by the Security Council on oil contracts offshore Western Sahara; section B sets out the Territory’s status.
Cited on
- Admission of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic to the OAU, 1982
- End of the Spanish presence in Western Sahara, 1976
- History of the Western Sahara question
- Madrid Agreement on Western Sahara, 1975
- Recognition versus effective administration
- US recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, 2020
- Western Sahara
- Western Sahara: status, claims, recognition and control
- Why boundaries differ between maps