Yokohama (Japan) 27 August 2019 (SPS)- The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Uld Salek, represented the Sahrawi Republic in the Ministerial Meeting of the 7th African Union-Japan Partnership Summit (TICAD), on Tuesday in Yokohama, Japan, accompanied by the Sahrawi Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the African Union, Mr. Lamine Baali.
Yokohama (Japan) 26 August 2019 (SPS)- The seventh African Union-Japan Partnership Summit (TICAD) kicked off today in Yokohama, Japan, at the level of Senior Officials, to be followed tomorrow by a meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers, before the holding of the Summit that will be attended by the President of the Sahrawi Republic, Brahim Ghali.
Hawkes Bay (New Zealand) 26 August 2019 (SPS)- Polisario Front's Representative to Australia and New Zealance, Mr. Kamal Fadel, called for the end of New Zealand's companies role in collaborating with Morocco in the plunder of Saharawi phosphate, in an opinion published Today in New Zealand Herald.
Here is the complete text of the article:
By: Kamal Fadel
A vessel named Amoy Dream carrying about 55000 tonnes of phosphate rock from Western Sahara is expected to arrive at Napier Port today.
Lisbon (Portugal) 25 August 2019 (SPS)- 24 Portuguese trade union and organizations co-signed a joint call addressed to their government last Thursday 22 August, calling for a “clear position against the Kingdom of Morocco’s aggressions against the Saharawi people” and “the end of the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara.”
Shaheed Al-Hafeed, August 24, 2019 (SPS) -The Polisario Front on Sunday warned against the danger of the deadlock in the peace process led by the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) to decolonize Western Sahara.
Chaired by President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Brahim Ghali, the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front held an extraordinary session on 21-23 August, during which the current situation at the national, regional and international levels was discussed.
Shaheed al-Hafeed, August 24, 2019 (SPS) - The Frente POLISARIO’s National Secretariat welcomed the African Union's constant stances on the need to complete the decolonization of the last African colony, calling for resolving the conflict between the two neighboring countries, which are members of the continental organization, the Sahrawi Republic and the Kingdom of Morocco, ensuring compliance with the Constitutive Act of the African Union, in particular respect for the borders inherited in the wake of independence and respect for the sovereignty of the member States.
Bir-Lahlou, August 24, 2019 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed-Salem Ould Salek, has sent a congratulatory message to his Nigerian counterpart, H.E Geoffrey Jideofor Kwusike Onyeama, on the renewal of his appointment by H.E President Muhammadu Buhari, as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria.
“On this great occasion, I would like to offer you, on my personal name and behalf of the Sahrawi Government, my most sincere congratulations,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Shaheed al-Hafeed, August 24, 2019 (SPS) - The Frente POLISARIO's National Secretariat drew attention to the danger of a return of blockage to the United Nations African settlement process, or the lack of interest on the part of the Security Council and the international community at large, especially after the resignation of Mr. Horst Koehler, the UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, during the special session held on 21, 22 and 23 of August, chaired by President of the Republic, Seretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Ghali.
Chahid El Hafed, August 21, 2019 (SPS) - The National Secretariat of the Frente POLISARIO meets today in an extraordinary session under the supervision of the Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, the President of the Republic, Mr. Brahim Gali.
Following the session, the National Secretariat will issue a statement addressing the various themes to be discussed.
Bir Lahlou, August 21, 2019 (SPS) – The President of the Republic, Secretary General of Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali on Tuesday congratulated his Uruguayan counterpart, the President, H.E Tabare Vazquez, on the occasion of his country's Independence Day, which was a long and difficult journey for freedom and independence.
Madrid (Spain), August 20, 2019, (SPS) - The representative of the Frente POLISARIO in Spain, Jira Bulahi Bad, has expressed her strongest condemnation of the Moroccan regime's policies and the blockade imposed on the occupied areas of the Western Sahara, preventing access to the territory of journalists and international observers .
Washington D.C. (USA) 20 August 2019 (SPS)- Polisario Front’s Representative to Australia and New Zealand, Mr. Kamal Fadel, considered in an opinion published yesterday on the Wall Street Journal, that maintaining the status quo in Western Sahara, as Morocco wishes, is dangerous to the region and costly to the UN and the US and the international community at large.
Washington D.C (USA) 20 August 2019 (SPS)- American Professor Joseph Huddleston published an opinion yesterday on the Wall Street Journal, contradicting Moroccan propaganda that claims Saharawi State is unviable, and calls for enabling the people of Western Sahara to exercise their right to self-determination.
Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) 18 August 2019 (SPS)- The 39th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) called, in its Final Communiqué Today, on the international community to meet the aspirations of the Saharawi people.
Chahid El Hafed, August 15, 2019 (SPS) - The President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Gali on Wednesday paid farewell to the Ambassador of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mr. "Edwin Mandaza" after the end of his duties at the Presidential Residence with the presence of the SG of Foreign Ministry, Mohamed Salem Hmada
Panama City. August 15, 2019 (SPS) - Panama's National Assembly has set up a Parliamentary Friendship Group with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) with the aim to strengthen ties of friendship and cooperation between the two peoples and the two brotherly countries.
The installation ceremony of Panama-SADR Parliamentary Friendship Group was held Tuesday by the Committee on Foreign Relations of Panama's National Assembly, chaired by Deputy Fernando Arce, the Sahrawi news agency SPS said Wednesday.
Pretoria (South Africa) 14 August 2019 (SPS)- The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union (Nehawu) organized a demonstration in front of the Moroccan Embassy in Pretoria on Wednesday to demand the decolonization of Western Sahara and the expulsion of the Moroccan regime of occupation from the African Union.
Kampala (Uganda) 14 August 2019 (SPS)- The Ugandan Students' Association condemns the Moroccan illegal occupation of parts of the Sahrawi Republic, during a meeting with Saharawi Ambassador in Uganda, Mr. Hamadi Bachir, on Wednesday, and called for more solidarity and support to the Sahrawi people.
The Sahrawi ambassador in Uganda received representatives of the organization at the embassy in Kampala where he held a meeting with them, exposing them the historical, legal and political backgrounds of the conflict in Western Sahara.
Bir Lehlu (Saharawi Republic) 13 August 2019 (SPS)- Saharawi Ministry of Information confirmed in a communiqué issued Tuesday evening that the Moroccan government is trying to mislead public opinion about USA position on Western Sahara, in reference to a paid article published on Wall Street Journal Sunday, which is propagating some fallacies.
Following is the complete text of the Communiqué:
Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic
Ministry of Information
Bir Lahlou, 12 August 2019 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO, Brahim Ghali, has expressed deep concern over placing a group of Moroccan security and intelligence agents by the Moroccan authorities in the Buffer Strip in Guerguerat, in a letter addressed Monday to Secretary-General of the United Nations, H.E. Mr António Guterres.