New York, March 24, 2018 (SPS) -Speaking to the Security Council, the United Nations Envoy for Western Sahara Horst Kohler on Wednesday stressed that his mediation targeted direct and unconditional negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco in 2018.
New York, March 24, 2018 (SPS) - United Nations Security Council on Wednesday has expressed full support for the efforts of the UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy, Horst Kohler, for the relaunch of the peace process in Western Sahara.
"The members of the Security Council express their full support for the efforts of the UN envoy," said Security Council's President Karel Jan Gustaaf Van Oosterom (Netherlands) at the end of the first briefing with Kohler.
London, March 24, 2018 (SPS) - Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) called to respect the decisions of the Court of Justice of European Union (CJEU) which forbids European boats from fishing in the territorial waters of Western Sahara without the approval of the Sahrawi people.
Brussels (Belgium), March 22, 2018 (SPS) - The Frente POLISARIO has condemned the European Commission's attempts to amend the EU-Morocco fisheries agreement, in order to include the waters of Western Sahara, despite the decision of the European Court of Justice, that the waters of Western Sahara cannot be part of agreements with Morocco, in statement issued by Polisario´s representative at EU.
Kigali (Rwanda), 03/22/2018 (SPS) - The President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, affirmed in Kigali, the SADR's willingness to work together with the rest of members of the African Union, to apply the Treaty of the African Free Trade Area and the Protocol of Kigali, on the promotion of economic integration within the continent.
New York (USA), March 21, 2018 (SPS) – The member of the National Secretariat of the Frente POLISARIO and coordinator with Minurso, Mr, Mhamed Khadad was received Tuesday by the UNSG Personal Envoy , Mr. J. Koehler On the eve of the presentation of his report to the Security Council, according to Sahrawi diplomat source.
Bir lehlu (liberated territories), March 20, 2018 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali, sent a congratulatory message to his counterpart of the Republic of Namibia, His Excellency Mr. Hage Geingob, during the celebration of his country's 28th anniversary of independence of the Republic of Namibia.
Shaheed El-Hafed, March 19, 2018 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, received Sunday evening, the delegation of friendship from the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, comprising parliamentarians and members of associations of friendship and solidarity with the Saharawi people.
Lisbon (Portugal), March 18, 2018 (SPS) - The Assembly of the Republic of Portugal (parliament) has approved a motion through which it welcomed the resumption of Western Sahara negotiation process, under the aegis of the United Nations, stressing it was time to reach a solution ensuring Saharawi people's right to self-determination, a source said Sunday.
The motion, approved on March 9th in a plenary session at the Portuguese Parliament, "welcomed the resumption of the negotiation process in (occupied) Western Sahara under the aegis of the United Nations.
New York, March 18, 2018 (SPS) - The United National Envoy for Western Sahara Horst Kohler on Wednesday will present to the Security Council the first conclusions of his mediation which started in last October, a first briefing closely scrutinized in New York shortly before the next report on the Western Sahara conflict.
During the meeting to take place in camera, Kohler will be accompanied by the new Head of the MINURSO (United Nations Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara) Colin Stewart, appointed in December.
Shaheed Al-Hafed, March 17, 2018 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, on Saturday issued a presidential decree appointing a member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, former prime minister, Abdelkader Talib Omar, as Ambassador to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.
Bir Lehlu (Liberated Territories of the SADR), March 16, 2018 (SPS) – the Speaker of the Saharawi National Council (Parliament) sent a congratulatory letter to Elizabeth Cabezas Guerrero on the occasion of her election as President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Ecuador.
Algiers, March 15, 2018 (SPS) - The Italian Foreign Ministry has approved the granting of one million euro humanitarian aid to the UN World Food Programme (PAM) and the UN Funds for Children (UNICEF), said Italian embassy to Algiers, adding that the aid will be destined to support the emergency actions, in terms of nutrition, health and education for the Sahrawi refugees.
The aid is composed of two contributions, namely €0.5 million for the WFP and €0.5 million for the Unicef, said the same source.
Paris, March 15, 2018 (SPS) - Several Sahrawi political prisoners are on hunger strike in Moroccan prisons to denounce their detention conditions, and to claim and defend the right to self-determination, a source close to the Sahrawis in Paris said Thursday.
Sahrawi activist Naâma Asfari began an unlimited hunger strike on February 27th, solemnly declaring "it is better to die for dignity than to live without it".
Tenerife (Spain), March 15, 2018 (SPS) - The political party that governs the Canary Islands, Canary Coalition, reaffirmed its support for the peace process, led by the United Nations and the African Union, to resolve the conflict in Western Sahara, enabling the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination.
The statements were made during a meeting in the municipality of Orotava, between the Secretary General of the Canary Coalition, Francisco Linares and the delegate of the Frente POLISARIO in the Canary Islands, Hamdi Mansur.
Algiers (Algeria), March 15, 2018 (SPS) - The Russian ambassador in Algeria, Evigdor Biliaev, said in an interview with the Algerian newspaper, ElKhabar, that Russia supports the efforts of the United Nations to resolve the conflict in Western Sahara according to the relevant resolutions.
The Russian diplomat reiterated that Russia supports these efforts, and that "in Western Sahara there is an international mechanism, MINURSO, in charge of organizing a referendum."
Madrid, March 15, 2017 (SPS) - Spanish deputies of the parliamentarian intergroup of support and friendship with Western Sahara called on their government to comply with the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which stipulates that the fisheries agreement between EU and Morocco is not applicable to the territories of Western Sahara and its waters.
Bir Lahlou, March 15, 2018 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, called on the United Nations to stop the organization of the so-called Crans Montana Forum in occupied Dakhla, calling this act a provocation that would undermine the efforts of the United Nations led by it Personal Envoy President Horst Koehler in his letter to His Excellency ,Secretary General of the United Nation, Mr. Antonio Guterres
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), March 12, 2018 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, has stressed the failure of the Kingdom of Morocco in their attempt to compromise Western Sahara's membership of the African Union (AU).
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), March 12, 2018 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, reaffirmed that the Sahrawi people are ready for the armed struggle to regain sovereignty over all their territories, calling on the international community to speed up the implementation of the resolution 2351 of the United Nations Security Council.