Brussels, February 17, 2012 (SPS) The free trade agreement on agricultural products and fisheries between the European Union and Morocco is illegal according to the international law if this agreement including the territory of Western Sahara ", said Minister Delegate for Europe, Mohamed Sidati, in a statement received by SPS.
“Western Sahara is a non-autonomous territory under the responsibility of the UN on which Morocco has no right of sovereignty or administration. That was confirmed by the International Court of Justice (Legal Notice 16 October 1975),” he said.
"We call on the European Union to not allow agricultural, fishing or any other from the Western Sahara territory illegally occupied by Morocco can be marketed and sold in the space of European Union ", he stressed.
"Accepting this agreement would be making the EU beneficiary of the Moroccan policy of occupation, oppression, and plundering the natural resources of Western Sahara. Which considered as a serious violation of International law, and undermining the ongoing efforts of the international community to achieve a just and peaceful solution to the conflict in Western Sahara,” warned the Saharawi diplomat
"The Saharawi people continue to oppose with determination the plundering of natural resources of Western Sahara by Morocco. And urges the EU to refrain from any action which might make it accomplice of operation of international illegal brigandage in Western Sahara, "concluded Mohamed Sidati. (SPS)
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