Brussels, 13 December 2020 (SPS) - Western Sahara is "not for sale", said on Friday Pierre Galand, President of the European Coordination of Support and Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO), in reaction to the decision of US President Donald Trump on the alleged sovereignty of Morocco over the occupied territory.
Pierre Galand said in a statement released on Friday that after "selling" the occupied al Quds to Israel, "denying nuclear disarmament, stopping the United States’s contribution to UNESCO, UNRWA, WHO and after trying to destroy ObamaCare ... Donald Trump grants, as an absolute sovereign he still believes to be", Morocco the so-called sovereignty over Western Sahara and this, "in exchange of betrayal of King Mohammed VI to the Palestinians."
"Netanyahu and the King of Morocco thus believe making their moves with regard to their annexationist projects of Palestine and Western Sahara. Trump, Netanyahu, Mohammed VI are thus trampling on the inalienable and sovereign rights of two peoples, who are today militarily occupied, colonized, repressed and stripped of their resources,” he added.
"Amid the failure of the UN to guarantee respect for international law, the right of these two peoples to self-determination," the Polisario Front and following Morocco's violation of the 1991 peace agreement signed under the auspices of the United Nations," has decided to defend itself through armed struggle which it considers the only recourse to recover the most legitimate aspirations of the Saharawi people."
The left Alliance of the European Parliament expressed its “categorical” rejection of Trump’s decision, underlining that this provocative act is a flagrant violation of the international legality.” (SPS)
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