FILE - A Polisario Front soldier salutes during a military parade to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Polisario Front in the Aoussered camp, Algeria, Saturday, May 20, 2023. France has recognized Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-held position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to back Morocco while a United Nations-mediated peace process remains stalled, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote in a letter made public on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Guidoum Fateh, File)
FILE - Polisario Front soldiers during a shooting exercise near Mehaires, Western Sahara on Oct. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
FILE - Demonstrators wave Moroccan flags during a protest in Paris on March 20, 2016, when the United States declared its support for the threatened U.N. peacekeeping mission in the disputed territory of Western Sahara after Morocco took steps to reduce its size and terminate $3 million in funding. France has recognized Morocco's sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara, shifting a decades-held position and adding itself to a growing list of countries to back Morocco while a United Nations-mediated peace process remains stalled, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote in a letter made public on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)