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Letter to Ms. Ashton: " only beneficiaries of Morocco- EU agreements are cash deskers of Moroccan State"

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El Aaiun (occupied territories) June 16, 2011 (SPS) .- In a letter sent by the community of Sahrawi x-prisoners to EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, the Sahrawi denounce the inclusion of their occupied territory under EU  agreement signed with Morocco, Western Sahara Resource Watch .reported Wednesday.

"We communicate our total disagreement and rejection to the fact that the EU considers legal the export Western products as a legal act," said Abdelahi Emhamed Labraihmani, spokesman of the Community of Sahrawi x-prisoners of conscience in letter sent b to Ashton on June 6, WSRW added.

the members of this platform, the Sahrawi imprisoned for years in Moroccan jails Gali-Megouna, Agdez, BIR-1 and others, organizing peaceful  sit-in for more than 41 days in front of  dependency of "Moroccan  Advisory Council for human rights" in El Aaiun,The same source highlighted

The Sahrawi ask Ashton to visit "in situ in the area to check the agreements [between the EU and Morocco], the only beneficiaries are the banks of the Moroccan State", WSRW concludes.

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