Cape Town (South Africa), October 20, 2022 (SPS) – The Chairperson of The Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Cooperation Mr. Supra Mahumapelo, renewed the Parliament's accompaniment to the Sahrawi people until independence.
Dili (Timor-Leste) 20.10.2022 (SPS)- The President of the Commission for the support of the Referendum of Self-determination in Western Sahara of the National Parliament of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (CEARAS), honourabe member of Parliament Mr. Aderito Hugo da Costa reaffirmed today in an audience with Saharawi Republic Ambassador to Timor-Leste, Mr.
Pretoria (South Africa), October 19, 2022 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and the Secretary-General of the Polisario Front Mr. Brahim Ghali met today, with the ruling coalition in South Africa.
During the meeting, the political parties forming the ruling coalition in South Africa renewed their unconditional support for the Sahrawi people, stressing that the meeting was an opportunity to strengthen the strong relations that bind them with the Polisario Front, as well as to search for new mechanisms to raise awareness on the Sahrawi issue.
Pretoria (South Africa), October 18, 2022 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front , Mr. Brahim Ghali, praised South Africa's firm stance towards the Sahrawi people and their just cause.
President Brahim Ghali, highlighted, during a press conference held equally with his South African counterpart, that the honorable position of South Africa towards the Sahrawi issue is not strange to people who struggled against colonialism and racial discrimination.
Luanda (Angola) October 18, 2022 (SPS) - The Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in Angola, Mr. Hamdi Khalil Mayara, was received by the Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Angolan Communities, Mr. Domingos Custódio Vieira Lopes.
During the meeting, the two sides discussed the historical bilateral relations between the two brotherly countries, the Sahrawi Republic and Angola, as well as ways to enhance and strengthen them to serve the interests of the two countries and peoples.
Shaheed Al-Hafed, 17 October 2022 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs and member of the National Secretariat of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, affirmed that intransigence and violation by Morocco of the international law in the complete absence of the international community are likely to plunge the region into instability, tensions.
Geneva, 17 October 2022 (SPS) - The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has warned about the state of health of the Saharawi journalist, Mohamed Lamin Haddi, unjustly sentenced to 25 years in prison, because of the abuse and torture he suffers by the Moroccan authorities.
Birlahlou (Liberated Territories), 16 October 2022 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, has welcomed the Algiers Declaration concluding the Conference of Unification of Palestinian Ranks and the central role of Algeria in favor of the Palestinian national reconciliation.
Birlahlou (SADR), 16 October 2022 (SPS) - President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, expressed the Sahrawi authorities' deep condemnation of the "complicit and unjustified silence" of the United Nations Secretariat and its reluctance to call things by their true names and to hold the Moroccan occupying state accountable for the consequences of its documented violation of the ceasefire, reiterating the Polisario Front's rejection of any approach that deviates from the United Nations-African Union settlement plan.
New York (United Nations), 15 October 2022 (SPS) - Algeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Nadir Larbaoui, addressing the members of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) on Friday, stressed the legal and historical bases of Western Sahara issue, before deconstructing, with irrefutable evidence, Morocco's well-worn arguments about the issue and its allegations to distort the facts and mislead the international community.
Gaborone (Botswana), 15 October 2022 (SPS) - President of Botswana, Mr. Mokgweetsi Masisi, has reaffirmed his country's historical position in support of the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination, liberation and independence.
This came in a letter of reply addressed Friday by the President of Botswana to the President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Brahim Ghali, in which he reiterated his country's firm position in support of the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and independence.
New York (United Nations), 15 October 2022 (SPS) - The Polisario Front representative to the UN and coordinator with the MINURSO, Sidi Mohamed Omar, welcomed the adoption Friday by the Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly, in charge of decolonization issues, of a resolution reaffirming the legal framework of the conflict in Western Sahara as a decolonization issue, considering it as a "strong setback for the Moroccan occupation regime and its attempts to change the legal nature of the Sahrawi cause.
New York (United Nations), 15 October 2022 (SPS) - The Fourth Committee of the UN General Assembly, in charge of decolonization issues, adopted on Friday a resolution, without a vote, reaffirming the legal framework of the conflict in Western Sahara as a decolonization issue and the responsibility of the United Nations towards the Sahrawi people.
New York (United Nations) 15 October 2022 (SPS)- Botswana Permanent Representative to the UN, Amb. Collen V. Kelapile, affirmed that his country’s firm support to the Saharawi people stems from Botswana’s strong belief in the right of peoples’ to self-deterination, in his statement Friday before the UN 4th Committee on decolonization.
New York (United Nations) 14 October 2022 (SPS) - The European Union reaffirmed the support of the union for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara after the approval by the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) of the 77th sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) of a new resolution on Western Sahara.
New York (United Nations) 15 October 2022 (SPS)- The Deputy Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the UN, Amb. Youseph Kassaye, affirmed in his statement before the UN 4th Committee on Thursday, that Ethiopia stands firm in support to the inalienable right of the Saharawi people to self-determination.
“Ethiopia supports the inalienable right of the people of Western Sahara to Self determination in line with General Assembly resolution” he said.
New York (United Nations) 15 October 2022 (SPS)- Minister Coubnsellor at the Permanent Mission of Mozambique to the UN, Mr. Antonio Bambissa, affirmed that the right to self-determination is inalienable to all peoples, stressing the need to implement UN and AU resolution to decolonize Western Sahara.
New York (United Nations) 14 October 2022 (SPS)- Zimbabwe’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador A.R. Chimbindi, called on the two parties to the conflict, Morocco and Polisario Front, to implement the OAU-UN Settlement Plan of 1991, in his statement before the UN 4th Committee on Decolonisation on Thursday.
“In the case of Western Sahara, my delegation urges both parties, Morocco and the Frente POLISARIO, to implement the commitments made under the 1988 UN-OAU Settlement Plan that was approved by the UN Security Council.” He said.
New York (United Nations) 14 October 2022 (SPS)- Namibia Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, Ms. Helena Ndapewa Kusee, reiterated Namibia’s call to the UN General Assembly’s 4th Committee to send a visiting mission to the occupied territories of Western Sahara to report about the situation, in her country’s statement before the Committee on Thursday.
“We reiterate our long standing call for a visiting mission to Western Sahara to provide more accurate accounts of the situation on the ground,” she said.
Ausard (Sahrawi Refugee Camps), October 14, 2022 (SPS) - The 17th edition of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara "Fi Sahara" has opened on Wednesday evening, with the participation of more than 200 participants from about 20 countries.
The opening ceremony was marked by the presence of the Minister of Culture, Al-Ghouth Mamouni, and members of the National Secretariat, the Government and the National Council, in addition to a large number of Sahrawi and foreign artists, politicians and human rights activists.