Brussels, 6 March 2023 (SPS) - The Sahrawi ambassador in charge of Europe and the European Union (EU), Oubi Bouchraya Bachir, stressed that the proclamation of the Sahrawi Republic, on February 27, 1976, was "the most important step in aborting the Spanish colonial partition plan" and enshrined "the independent Sahrawi national existence, as an inescapable fact".
Speaking at a ceremony held in Brussels on the occasion of the 47th anniversary of the proclamation of the Saharawi Republic, Mr. Oubi Bouchraya said that "by building the State of the Saharawi people which rejects half-solutions, as a political and institutional objective, the road was cut to the plot of the Spanish colonizer and the Moroccan occupier, which sought to confiscate the right of the Sahrawi people to freedom and independence," calling for more efforts to "consolidate the national achievements.
The Sahrawi diplomat reaffirmed on the occasion the rightness of the Sahrawi issue and the strength of its legal foundations, a cause that has not been affected by international and geopolitical changes, and which was instead reinforced by the European Court of Justice (CJEU), which ruled that Morocco and Western Sahara are two distinct and separate territories.
The Sahrawi issue has also been reinforced, recalled Oubi Bouchraya, by the ruling of the African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights on the need to find a permanent solution to the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara and which made clear reference to the issue of respect for Sahrawi sovereignty.
He also referred to the involvement of Morocco in the corruption case that has splashed the European Parliament, called today in the media the "Moroccogate", and the use of illegal and immoral methods to influence the decisions of European institutions, in order, among other things, to circumvent the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and continue to plunder its natural wealth.
In conclusion, Oubi Bouchraya called for "working at a sustained pace to follow the current situation facing the Sahrawi issue.
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