Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

So tell us about maybe some of the main countries that are supportive of the Sahrawi people.

Well, several African and Latin American countries continue in recognizing the arrest of the Sahrawi Arab victim and support the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination.

And other states have moved closer to Morocco autonomy.

But let me say that in the case of South Africa, I think that all the countries, those who have really suffered the colonization, they know the value of independence, the value of giving the people their right of self-determination.

There are plenty of countries whose status as sovereign states is never really refuted: France, Japan, the US.

There are also some that nearly no one recognizes as sovereign states: the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Northern Cyprus, South Ossetia.

In between is the subjective line representing near universal recognition by other countries.

There are nations that start to approach this line exhibiting most tenets of statehood, yet lacking the sort of near universal recognition that leads to the colloquial status of countryhood, Kosovo and Palestine, most notably.