Shaheed Elhafed (refugee camps), December 30, 2014 (SPS) - The Sahrawi government condemned Crans Montana Forum’s decision to organize its 2015 session in the occupied Sahrawi city of Dakhla, calling the forum’s organizer to reconsider this serious decision.
“This decision is a flagrant violation of the international law, a blatant aggression against the Sahrawi people and a contradiction with the principles and the objectives stated in the Crans Montana Forum,” said the Sahrawi government in a communiqué.
After recalling that the city of Dakhla is illegally occupied since 31 October 1975 by the Moroccan military forces, the Sahrawi government said that “it is not reasonable that the forum justifies this dangerous behaviour by Moroccan illusions on the Western Sahara issue.”
In this regard, the Sahrawi authorities underlined that the Western Sahara issue “is not an ordinary African conflict, but an international issue, monitored by the United Nations’ Secretary General and discussed at least twice a year by the UN Security Council.”
The occupied Western Sahara is on the UN’s list of the non-self governing territories, and eligible to the implementation of the Resolution 1514 declaration on the granting of independence to colonized countries and peoples. (SPS)
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