04/23/2013 18:17 GMT
UNITED NATIONS, April 23, 2013 (AFP) - The United States has withdrawn a demand that the United Nations start human rights investigations in disputed Western Sahara following furious lobbying by Morocco, diplomats said Tuesday.
Morocco, which has occupied Western Sahara since the 1970s, had condemned a US move to put the demand in a UN Security Council resolution on the UN peacekeeping mission in the North African territory to be voted on Thursday.
It called off military exercises with the United States to show its anger.