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The Western Sahara partition agreement, formally the Convention concerning the State frontier line, was a treaty signed at UN Treaty series No. 15406 (1977)
/ref> The treaty was intended to demarcate the borders between Morocco and Mauritania as part of the split. The border was defined as a straight line from intersection of the coastline and the
The Western Sahara partition agreement, formally the Convention concerning the State frontier line, was a treaty signed at Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
on 14 Apr 1976 between Morocco and Mauritania
Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...
in order to partition the disputed territory of Western Sahara between them following the withdrawal of Spain under the Madrid Accords./ref> The treaty was intended to demarcate the borders between Morocco and Mauritania as part of the split. The border was defined as a straight line from intersection of the coastline and the
24th parallel north
The 24th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 24 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane, about north of the Tropic of Cancer. It is the line which demarcates boundary between Pakistan and India in the general area of Rann of K ...
, through the intersection of the 23rd parallel north and the 13th meridian west, and continuing until the pre-existing borders of Mauritania.
It was signed by Hamdi Ould Mouknass, the foreign minister of Mauritania and Ahmed Laraki, foreign minister of Morocco.
References
{{reflist 1976 treaties Mauritania–Morocco relations 1976 in Morocco 1976 in Mauritania 1976 in Western Sahara Western Sahara conflict Mauritania–Western Sahara border