The Donald Trump administration is siding squarely with Morocco regarding its occupation of the Western Sahara, suggesting that the unorthodox president is ready to shake up longstanding US policy toward the decades-old North African conflict.

The UN Security Council on Friday adopted a US-sponsored resolution that is unusually critical of the pro-independence Polisario Front after tabling an earlier US draft that was even more favorable to Morocco. The resolution renews the UN peacekeeping mission to the Western Sahara, MINURSO, for six months while calling out the Algeria-backed Polisario for recent tensions in the region.

“The MINURSO resolution that the Security Council just passed is definitely not the MINURSO resolution that we’ve seen in previous years,” David McKean, a program officer at the nonprofit Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, told Al-Monitor. “Every couple of years Morocco finds a way to influence the conversation by taking pretty aggressive action.”

Pro-Moroccan activists applauded the Trump administration’s apparent evolution on the issue, which has been the subject of a Washington lobbying war for years between Morocco and Algeria. Rabat spent almost $4 million to influence Congress and the executive branch in 2016, according to a review of lobbying disclosures by Al-Monitor, compared with less than $500,000 combined by the Polisario and its Algerian patron. The dispute even played a minor role during the 2016 US presidential campaign, where Hillary Clinton was criticized for appearing to favor Rabat while taking Moroccan money for the Clinton Foundation.