Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), Dec 11, 2011 (SPS) - A delegation of the European Parliament is visiting since Friday the Saharawi refugee camps and the liberated territories of Western Sahara to closely stop at the situation of the Saharawi refugees as to hold talks with SADR authorities.
The delegation composed of Mr. Ivo Vajgl, Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and ex-Slovenian foreign minister, Mr. Pino Arlacchi, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats and vice of the former UN secretary general, Ms. Isabella Lövin, Greens and reporter of the European Parliament’s Cooperation and Development Committee on the fisheries with Morocco, Mr. Mojca Kleva, Social Democrats, and Mr. Bernardo João Ferreir, United Left Party, informed source of the Saharawi Ministry in charge of European Affairs.
The three-day trip will feature a series of talks with leaders of the Saharawi state and Saharawi refugees and will visit Saharawi institutions and facilities.
Last year, Pino Arlacchi and Ivo Vajgl spoke out in favor of interrogations on the deteriorating situation in the occupied Western Sahara, asking the European Council to invite the Moroccan government to put an end to its policy of discrimination and violation of human rights against the Saharawi population, and to allow the population to self-determine its future with a free and fair referendum, as recommended by the UN Security Council resolutions. (SPS)
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