Abuja - (Nigeria), August 15, 2024 (SPS) - The Representative of the Polisario Front in Switzerland, the United Nations and international organizations in Geneva, Mr. Oubi Boushraya Al-bashir, denounced "the unilateral positions taken by some Western countries, the latest of which is France, in supporting the Moroccan expansionist thesis", stressing that "about 50 years of conflict and the steadfastness of the Sahrawi people and their just struggle have proven that the Kingdom of Morocco needs its true friends to help it get out of the impasse of the continued occupation of Western Sahara, which is costly financially and politically, and not someone who encourages it to continue its expansionist adventure in Western Sahara, which is now dragging the stability and security of the entire North African region into more and more dangers and opening it to pitfalls with dire consequences for everyone".
The Sahrawi diplomat highlighted, in the lecture he delivered as the keynote speaker at the International Conference for Eradication of Colonialism held in Abuja, Nigeria, the “triangle” of justice for the Sahrawi people’s struggle for freedom and independence, consisting of the international law side, which includes numerous United Nations resolutions, including the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, the African law side, which includes the decisions of the Organization of African Unity and the African Union, including the decision of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued in September 2022, and finally the European law side, which is reflected in the various decisions of the European Court of Justice in 2016, 2018, and 2021.
The Sahrawi diplomat also stressed to the participants that "the justice of the Sahrawi cause and the determination and will of the Sahrawi people to continue the struggle by various means and on various fronts, make the consecration of their right to self-determination and independence a matter of time and a historical inevitability that cannot be evaded or postponed indefinitely," calling for "drawing lessons from the history of liberation in Africa and the world and from what is happening now in Palestine, where the Western position favoring Israel led to the current explosion that is likely to lead the region into dangerous regional pitfalls and confrontations."
At the end of his lecture, Mr. Oubi Boushray Al-Bashir, stressed that "the Moroccan occupation, of its own free will, is not prepared to cooperate in order to reach a peaceful solution that respects the principles of international law and the resolutions of international legitimacy, and that the international community, including the African Union, is required today, more than ever, to exert all pressure on Rabat to force it to respect the commitments and agreements it signed with the Sahrawi side under the supervision of the United Nations in order to eliminate colonialism from the region, since the Sahrawi people alone have the original and legitimate right to determine the final status of the Western Sahara region, which has been under the Moroccan military occupation since 1975."
It is worth noting that the International Conference for Eradication of Colonialism organized in Abuja - Nigeria, during the last two days, witnessed a distinguished international and Nigerian presence. Its work was chaired by the former Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Gambari, and was attended by an important Sahrawi delegation including Mr. Brahim Salem Boussif, Ambassador of the Sahrawi Republic in Nigeria, and Ambassador Oubi Boushraya Al-Bashir, Representative of the Polisario Front in Switzerland, the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva.
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