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.
Algiers, Nov 12, 2013 (SPS) - The United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) is "the only contemporary mission of peacekeeping without a mandate to monitor human rights," a diplomatic source reported.
This observation has been recalled in a message by U.S. NGO Robert F. Kennedy Center in a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, who will travel soon to Rabat.
Canberra (Australia), November 11, 2013 (SPS) - The Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) has expressed its ‘strong’ opposition to Morocco’s candidature for a position on the United Nations Human Rights Council, in a letter sent Sunday to Australian Permanent Representative to the UN, Mr. Gary Quinlan.
Algiers, November 11, 2013 (SPS) - Foreign Minister, Ramtane Lamamra, renewed Sunday in Algiers, Algeria’s request to be associated with the investigation into the violation against Algerian general consulate in Casablanca in Morocco, while "rejecting" the theses of "isolated act."
"Algeria, which has officially requested to be associated with the investigation, has all the reasons to reject the thesis of the isolated act. The visual evidences exist," Lamamra told a news conference jointly run with Minister of Communication, Abdelkader Messahel.
Bir Lehlou (Liberated Territories), November 11, 2013 (SPS) - President of the Republic Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz has congratulated the Angolan President, Mr. Josè Eduardo Dos Santos, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 38th anniversary of the independence of the Republic of Angola, in a letter sent Sunday.
Algiers, November 10, 2013 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ramtane Lamamra, declared Sunday in Algiers that there is no divergence between Algeria and the U.S. on human rights issue in Western Sahara.
Lamamra told a press conference held jointly with Minister of Communication, Abdelkader Messahel, that "there is no divergence between the United States and Algeria on human Rights issue in Western Sahara," adding that "things are perfectly clear about this. "
Paris (France), November 10, 2013 (SPS) - A rally to demand the “unconditional” release of the Saharawi political prisoners, detained in the Moroccan jails, was held Saturday in Paris at the initiative of the League of Saharawi Students in France (LJESF).
Carrying Saharawi flags and photos of Saharawi prisoners, the demonstrators chanted slogans against the Moroccan government and claimed a referendum of self-determination under the aegis of the United Nations.
Shaheed El Hafed (Sahrawi refugee camps),November 10, 2013 (SPS) - The discovery of common graves in the occupied Saharawi territories has put back on the agenda of the crimes perpetrated by Moroccan authorities against Saharawi people, in defiance of international laws relating to respect of human rights.
Algiers, November 10, 2013 (SPS) - Algeria’s positions over Western Sahara issue are "consistent" and "firm," Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said Sunday in Algiers.
"The positions of Algeria are consistent and firm. We clearly make distinction between Western Sahara question, which is a decolonization issue that is addressed by the United Nations, and our bilateral relations (with Morocco)," Lamamra told a news conference jointly held with Minister of Communication Abdelkader Messahel.