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This is a list of national liberation movements recognized by intergovernmental organizations.

Background

The United Nations General Assembly, by resolution 3247 (XXIX) of 29 November 1974, decided to invite also the nationalist movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity (OAU, later transformed into the AU) and/or by the League of Arab States (AL) in their respective regions to participate in the United Nations Conference on the Representation of States in Their Relations with International Organizations as observers.

The Conference adopted a resolution on the status of "national liberation movements", and similar provisions were also adopted by the UNGA.

The UNGA recognized some of these nationalist movements as representatives of the people of their respective territories, along with their right to self-determination, national independence and sovereignty there. In 1973 South West Africa People's Organization was recognized as representative of the Namibian people and gained UN observer entity status in 1976. In 1974 the UN took similar decision for the Palestine Liberation Organization and it was also given the status of UN observer entity The OAU and the UN have contacts with the Polisario Front and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (established by the Polisario Front) is member state of the OAU since 1982. Since 1991 the UN is maintaining a peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara overseeing a cease-fire between Morocco and the Polisario Front. The goal of the mission is to conduct a referendum on the status of Western Sahara.

The aim of these movements is to eventually establish independent states and some of them have already succeeded. After independence most of the liberation movements transform into political parties – governing or oppositional. The most recent of these that finished the process of decolonization in its territory was SWAPO that established Namibia in 1990.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC, formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference) also recognized some nationalist movements.

List

Nationalist movement	Nation	Territory	Recognized by	Current administering power	Established state	Former administering power
Southern Cameroon Liberation Movement	Cameroonians	Southern Cameroons	Organisation of African Unity	Cameroon		United Kingdom
Moro National Liberation Front	Moro people	Mindanao	Organisation of Islamic Cooperation	Philippines		Spain  United States
Turkish Muslim community of Cyprus	Turkish Cypriots	Northern Cyprus	Organisation of Islamic Cooperation	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (de facto)		Republic of Cyprus
Polisario Front	Sahrawi people	Western Sahara	African Union  United Nations	Spain (de jure)  Morocco (de facto)  Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (de facto)	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic	Spain
Biafraland Government	Biafrans	Biafra Region	UNICEF	Nigeria	Biafra	Nigeria  United Kingdom

See also

• United Nations list of non-self-governing territories
• Wars of national liberation
• Liberation movement
• African independence movements
• Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
• List of historical separatist movements
• Lists of active separatist movements
• Decolonisation of Africa
• Decolonization of Asia

Notes

1. Another Insurgency in the Philippines continues in the same region with the Islamist groups of Abu Sayyaf, Rajah Sulaiman Movement, Jemaah Islamiyah, Ampatuan and al-Khobar.
2. In 1976, Spain informed the UNSG that it had relinquished administrative control of Western Sahara and considered itself henceforth exempt from any responsibility of an international nature in connection with the administration of the said territory. Nevertheless, the Criminal Chamber of the Spanish National Supreme Court ruled on 4 July 2014 that Spain, "de jure, although not de facto", remains the "administering power" of the non-self governing territory of Western Sahara and, as such, until the decolonization process is completed, it has the obligations under In Articles 73 and 74 of the United Nations Charter.

References

1. United Nations Conference on the Representation of States in Their Relations with International Organizations, 1975, Volume II, page 190:"The following national liberation movements accepted this invitation: ..."
2. United Nations Conference on the Representation of States in Their Relations with International Organizations, 1975
3. Observer status of national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity and/or by the League of Arab States
4. United Nations General Assembly Session 43 Resolution 160. A/RES/43/160 Retrieved 2010-08-31.
5. UNGA Resolution A/RES/31/152 Archived 28 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine Observer status for the South West Africa People's Organization
6. United Nations General Assembly Session -1 Resolution 3237. A/RES/3237(XXIX) Retrieved 2010-09-23.
7. Point 7, Res. 34/37 -Question of Western Sahara- 34th General assembly UN, 21-11-1979 Archived 21 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine
8. OIC Observer Muslim Organisations and Communities
9. Cyprus and the Organization of Islamic Conferences
10. "Western Sahara | The United Nations and Decolonization". www.un.org.
11. Balín, Mateo (23 March 2022). "La Audiencia Nacional avala la jurisdicción española sobre el Sáhara Occidental". El Correo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.

External links

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• History of colonialism
• National liberation movements