Rome (Italy) 15 November 2013 (SPS) - The Italian Chamber of Deputies held Thursday morning a reception to honour President of the Republic Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, and the delegation accompanying him, attended by Italians deputies led by Marina Sereni, vice president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies .
Rome (Italy ), November 15, 2013 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, attended Thursday in Rome an international parliamentary conference of Solidarity with the Saharawi people at the headquarters of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
Rome (Italy), November 14, 2013 (SPS) - President of the Republic Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mohamed Abdelaziz called on Europe and the international community to impose economic sanctions against the Moroccan government so to bring it to comply with the international legality.
Shaheed El Hafed (Saharawi refugee camps), November 14, 2013 (SPS) - Madrid agreements of November 14, 1975 block relationships between the Maghreb region countries, said Thursday member of National Secretriat of the Polisario Front in charge of the political organization, Bachir Mustapha Essayd, saying that Morocco is the "only" responsible for the instability in the region.
Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Nov 14, 2013 (SPS) - European medical missions will begin a working visit to the Saharawi refugee camps at the end of November, in the aim to conduct surgeries for the Saharawi refugees, a source of the Ministry of Public Health told SPS.
These missions, coming from Spain, Italy and Sweden, will carry out numerous surgeries related to the kidney, eye surgery and urology at the level of national and local hospitals in the Saharawi refugee camps.
Rome, Nov 14, 2013 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente Polisario Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz affirmed that the Moroccan government’s practices in Western Sahara "are similar to those pursued by the Apartheid regime in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s."
Rome, Nov 14, 2013 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, arrived Wednesday in Rome, capital of Italy, as part of a working visit lasts for few days, during which will attend the 38th European Conference of Coordination and Support to the Saharawi People (EUCOCO), to be held from 15 to 16 November.
Algiers, Nov 13, 2013 (SPS) - The 38th European Conference of Coordination and Support to the Saharawi People (EUCOCO), planned from 15 to 16 November in Rome, constitutes an occasion to show the extend of the international support to the Sahrawi cause, declared Wednesday Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Algeria, Brahim Ghali.
Algiers, Nov 13, 2013 (SPS) - A delegation representing the Algerian civil society, including the Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Saharawi People (CNASPS), will participate Friday and Saturday in Rome at European Conference of Coordination and Support to the Saharawi people (EUCOCO).
Rome, Nov 13, 2013 (SPS) - The 38th edition of the European Conference of Coordination and Support to the Saharawi people (EUCOCO) will be held Friday and Saturday in Rome attended by hundreds of participants from Europe, Latin America, United States, Africa, Asia and the Arab world, organizers said Wednesday.
Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Nov 13, 2013 (SPS) - The living conditions in the Saharawi refugee camps, the outcome of Moroccan colonization and the cut in human relief due to the global economic crisis, are the root causes of the prevalence of pathologies in refugee camps as malnutrition and gastritis, life conditions in the refugee camps, a member of a voluntary association for the Saharawi cause.
Rome (Italy), November 13, 2013 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, will attend the 38th conference of Coordination of Solidarity Committees with Sahrawi People which launches Friday in Rome, Italy, according to the organisers.
New York (United Nations), November 13, 2013 (SPS) - Algeria was elected Tuesday at the UN Human Rights Council, of which members are elected by the UN’s General Assembly.
The UN General Assembly elected 14 new members of the Council of Human Rights for 2014-2016.
Created in 2006, the Council of Human Rights is composed of 47 members of which the seats are divided into five regional groups (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latine America, Caribbean and Western Europe with North America).
Washington, November 13, 2013 (SPS) - The international human rights organization “Human Rights Watch” (HRW) urged Monday Moroccan Chief of Government Abdelilah Benkirane to respect the human rights of the Saharawi people in their claims for self-determination.
This call was launched in a joint letter from HRW with seven other regional and international human rights organizations, in anticipation of the election, Tuesday, of new members of UN Human Rights Council by the UN General Assembly.
Algiers, November 13, 2013 (SPS) - The closure of the country’s southern border is a “sovereign decision” of Algeria, Minister of Communication Abdelkader Messahel said Sunday in Algiers.
“Algeria’s southern border is closed since the beginning of troubles in Northern Mali and they will remain closed for national security reasons. It’s Algeria’s sovereign decision,” said Messahel at a press conference jointly held with Foreign Affairs Minister Ramtane Lamamra.
Smara (occupied territories), Nov 12, 2013 (SPS) - Moroccan occupation forces violently attacked a peaceful demonstration organized last Sunday in the occupied Saharawi city of Smara to demand the immediate withdrawal of Moroccan occupation from Western Sahara, reported the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Diaspora.
Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Nov 12, 2013 (SPS) - A high-level delegation, led by the President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, will participate at the 38th edition of the European Conference of Coordination and Support to the Saharawi People (EUCOCO), to be held in Rome, capital of Italy, from 15th to 17th November 2013.
Istanbul, Nov 12, 2013 (SPS) - South Africa stresses the need to find a final solution to the suffering of the Saharawi people and to complete the decolonization of Western Sahara, said chairwoman of the South African delegation present at the Socialist International Women’s meeting, convened from 8 to 9 November 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Madrid, Nov 12, 2013 (SPS) - Fisheries agreement between EU and Morocco is a “violation of the legitimate right of the Sahrawi people to exercise sovereignty over their country’s wealth,” said Polisario Front’s Representative in Spain Bachraya Bayun.
The Sahrawi official, who chaired a meeting on “the inking of a fisheries agreement between the Moroccan Kingdom and the European Union,” emphasized “the dimensions and irregularity of this agreement.”
Washington, Nov 12, 2013 (SPS) - The International ONG “Human Rights Watch” appealed Monday to the President of the Moroccan Government, Abdelilah Benkirane, to respect human rights of the Saharawi people in their claims for self-determination.
This call was made in a joint letter addressed by Human Rights Watch along with seven other regional and international human rights organizations, ahead of the election on Tuesday of the new members of the Human Rights Council by the UN General Assembly, to the Moroccan Prime Minister.