This is a list of separatist movements recognized by

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The

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, 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

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(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

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and

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there. In 1973 South West Africa People's Organization was recognized as representative of the

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n people and gained UN observer entity status in 1976. In 1974 the UN took similar decision for the

Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ar, منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية, ') is a Palestinian nationalist political and militant organization founded in 1964 with the initial purpose of establishing Arab unity and sta ...

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 Western Sahara ( '; ; ) is a disputed territory on the northwest coast and in the Maghreb region of North and West Africa. About 20% of the territory is controlled by the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), while the ...

overseeing a cease-fire between

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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

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– governing or oppositional. The most recent of these that finished the process of decolonization in its territory was SWAPO that established

in 1990. The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC, formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference) also recognized some nationalist movements.Cyprus and the Organization of Islamic Conferences
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