The Polisario Front has begun a three-day congress in Tifariti, a sensitive buffer zone area, at which it will propose preparing to resume war with Morocco.
If adopted, it would be the first time in 16 years that preparations for war had been part of Polisario strategy.
The Polisario, or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro, is a political and military group fighting for the separation of Western Sahara from Morocco.
The group's 12th general meeting, which began on Friday, comes ahead of the third round of the UN-sponsored negotiations with Morocco scheduled to begin next month outside New York.
Preparations for the Tifariti meeting sparked a crisis with Morocco.
The Moroccan foreign ministry called on Ban Ki-Moon, the UN secretary general, to stop the meeting, the holding of which it argued violated a 1991 ceasefire.
Tayeb Fassi Fihri, Morocco's foreign minister, accused the UN mission in Western Sahara of taking a negative attitude about what he dubbed military irregularities by the Polisario Front.
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