King Hassan II of Morocco — Green March launch speech, Agadir, ~5 November 1975 (official text, Ministry of Habous "Da'wat al-Haqq"): the decision to march in "a peaceful Green March, backed by our rights... relying above all on our will and our faith" to recover the (Western) Sahara — the founding act of Morocco's territorial claim.

قررنا أن نسير بمسيرة سلمية خضراء مدعمين بحقوقنا، محاطين بأشقائنا ورفاقنا، معتمدين قبل كل شيء على إرادتنا وإيماننا.

شعبي العزيز تيقنت الآن وآمنت أن المغرب وشؤون المغرب ومستقبل المغرب في أيد أمينة في أيد طافحة بيمن الله، مليئة بالوطنية متشبتة بعملها، لاصقة بأرضها وتربتها.

[Source is Arabic — the official Moroccan Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs (Habous) journal "Da'wat al-Haqq" (habous.gov.ma); tier-1 official text of the speech, confirmed verbatim against the fetched page.] English: — "We decided to march in a peaceful Green March, backed by our rights, surrounded by our brothers and comrades, relying above all on our will and our faith." — "My dear people, I am now certain and convinced that Morocco, and Morocco's affairs, and Morocco's future are in trustworthy hands — hands overflowing with God's blessing, full of patriotism, clinging to their work, fastened to their land and soil." CONTEXT: Declared positions of King Hassan II — King of Morocco 1961–1999 — from his historic speech at Agadir (~5 November 1975) giving the signal to launch the GREEN MARCH (al-Masira al-Khadra), in which some 350,000 unarmed Moroccans marched into the Spanish-held (Western) Sahara. Delivered days after an ICJ advisory opinion, the speech is the founding act of Morocco's claim to the Western Sahara and crystallizes the Moroccan monarchical-nationalist order: TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY / irredentism (recovering the Sahara as Moroccan land, "backed by our rights"); MASS MOBILIZATION behind the throne; the monarchy's religious legitimacy (the king as Amir al-Mu'minin / Commander of the Faithful, to whom Saharans renewed their bay'a / allegiance in the same ceremony); and a deliberately PEACEFUL ("the march of the flag, not the march of war") method. The Green March remains a foundational national myth and the bedrock of every Moroccan government's Western Sahara position. [Axes: regional-stance / territorial (Western Sahara as integral Moroccan territory — the defining Moroccan irredentist position, contra Polisario / self-determination), regime-stance (monarchical-religious legitimacy; Commander of the Faithful; mass mobilization behind the throne), nationalism.]