Nouakchott, June 29, 2018 (SPS) - The issue of Western Sahara will be included, for the first time, as “a special and separate item” from the other issues on the agenda of the 31st African Union Summit, said Friday, in Nouakchott, Sahrawi Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed Salem Ould Salek.
Occupied Aaiun, June 28, 2018 (SPS) -The UN Secretary-General's Personal Envoy to the Western Sahara, Horst Koehler, has arrived to the occupied city of El Aaiun on Thursday as part of a tour to the region.
According to Sahrawi human rights sources, Mr. Kohler arrived to the occupied city of El Aaiun on UN plane, amid an army and police deployment in uniform, a civilian and police intelligence personnel in all the streets of El Aaiun.
Chahid El Hafed (Sahrawi Refugee Camps), June 28, 2018 (SPS) - Sahrawi President, Secretary General of the Frente POLISAIO Brahim Gali affirmed Tuesday, at the headquarters of the Sahrawi Presidency in Chahid El Hafedh, that his talks with the United Nations Secretary General’s Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Horst Kohler were “honest” concerning the implementation of the recommendation of the Security Council made in April 2018.
Chahid El Hafed (Sahrawi refugee camps). June 27, 2018 (SPS) -The Head of the Sahrawi negotiating delegation, Khatri Aduh said Tuesday that the Frente POLISARIO backs the efforts of Horst Kohler and the United Nations to allow the Sahrawi people exercise their right to self-determination and independence.
Algiers, June 27, 2018 (SPS) - Speaker of the People’s National Assembly Said Bouhadja reiterated Monday, Algeria’s consistent position vis-à-vis the just cause of Western Sahara and the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination, stressing that the Algerian Parliament, as a model of solidarity with the Sahrawi cause, has supported this issue which falls within the framework of “decolonization.”
Brussels, June 27, 2018 (SPS) - The Frente POLISARIO rejected categorically the proposals of the European Commission aimed at extending the EU-Morocco association agreement to include Western Sahara, said Monday Sahrawi Delegate Minister for Europe Mohamed Sidati.
Chahid El Hafed, June 26, 2018 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, received Tuesday at the headquarters of the Presidency of the Republic the Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the UN for Western Sahara, Mr. Horst Kohler, who is on a tour to the region to relaunch the process of negotiations between the two parties to the conflict, the frente POLISARIO and Morocco.
Geneva, June 26, 2018 (SPS) - The Sahrawi human rights activist Hassena Mulay Dahi has presented Tuesday a lecture the right of self-determination and autonomy of peoples at the headquarters of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland
Saharwi lecturer has addressed the legal and historical background of the Western Sahara issue, its position in international law, as issue of decolonization and the last colony on the African continent.
Nouakchott (Mauritania) June 26, 2018, (SPS) - The thirty-sixth ordinary session of the Committee of Permanent Representatives has begun in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, in the presence of the Saharwi Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union, Mr. Lamin Baali, scheduled from 25 to 26 June ahead of the 33rd Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the African
Bir Lahlou(Liberated Territory), June 26 ,2018 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO Mr. Brahim Gali, has sent a congratulatory message to Mr. Ivan Doki, on his election as President of the Republic of Colombia in the elections held on the 17th of this month.
In his congratulatory letter, President Gali said, "I wish you, the government and the people of Colombia over the next four years a further prosperity and development that we all expect under your wise guidance."
Barcelona, June 25, 2018 (SPS) – The first groups of Sahrawi children started to arrive on Sunday in Catalonia, Spain, in the framework of Vacations in Peace Program.
The Sahrawi children were received at the El Prat airport, Barcelona, by representatives of the Catalan associations in solidarity with the Saharawi people and members of the Polisario Front Delegation in Catalonia, who ac will company them to the different municipalities, where they will be welcomed by Catalan families.
Paris (France), June 24, 2018 (SPS) – The International Network of Parliamentarians for the Self-Determination of Western Sahara, which held its first meeting on Friday at the headquarters of the French National Assembly in Paris, called on parliamentarians and governments to strongly mobilize for the holding of a self-determination referendum in Western Sahara.
Brussels, June 23, 2018 (SPS) - Members of the Committee on International Trade (INTA) at the European Parliament denounced Thursday the European Commission's proposal to amend EU-Morocco association agreement to include products from Western Sahara, considering it inconsistent with the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered in December 2016.
Brussels, June 23, 2018 (SPS) – Sahrawi minister, delegate for Europe Mohamed Sidati on Thursday reiterated the Polisario Front rejection of the European Commission’s proposal of modifying the protocols n 4 and n 1 to the EU-Morocco Association Agreement to include Western Sahara products.
"As the legitimate representative of Western Sahara people, recognized by the UN, the Polisario Front strongly rejects the proposal," he wrote in a letter to members of the European Parliament’s International Trade Committee (INTA).
Paris, June 21, 2018 (SPS) - Invited by the Study Group on Western Sahara, chaired by French deputy Jean-Paul Lecoq, the French National Assembly will host the first Parliamentary Network Conference on Friday International for the Support of the Referendum in Western Sahara, which springs from the recommendations of the 42nd EUCOCO meeting.
Chahid El Hafed, June 20, 2018 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Mr. Brahim Gali, has received the President of the African Union Commission (AU), Mr. Moussa Faki, at the headquarters of the Presidency of the Republic.
The talks broached the mission entrusted to the President of the African Union Commission by the last African Union summit, as well as issues of common interest at the African and international level.
Chahid El Hafed, June 19,2018 (SPS) - The President of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Mr. Moussa Faki, arrived this afternoon at the administrative center of the Saharawi Republic, Chahid El Hafed in a view of two days visit.
Upon his arrival at the Tindouf airport, he was received by the Deputy Minister in charge of African Affairs, Hamdi Jalil Mayara, the National Protocol Director, Mohamed Chej Mohammed Lehbib and the Permanent Representative of the SADR to the African Union, Lamin Baali.
Birthday Lehlou, June 18, 2018 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Brahim Thalidomide, has sent a congratulatory message to President of the Republic of Seychelles, His Excellency Mr Danny Faure, on the occasion of the 42th anniversary of Independent Day.
Vienna, June 17, 2018 (SPS) - Representative of the Polisario Front in Austria, Mohamed El Mamun, has participated as a guest in the Congress of the Austrian Trade Union Federation together with ambassadors accredited in Vienna and more than 52 delegations representing unions from Europe, America and Africa, according to press release of the Polisario Front representation in Austria.
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), June 16, 2018 (SPS) - The Polisario Front on Friday brought an action for annulment of the Council of the European Union's decision, which allows the European Commission to open negotiations with Rabat to extend EU-Morocco fishing agreement to Western Sahara and its maritime space, Polisario Secretariat member M'hamed Khadad said.