New York, Oct 12, 2012 (SPS) – United Nation Fourth committee continued Thursday, in New York, hearing petitioners on the question of Western Sahara, where the vast majority firmly defended the inalienable right of Sahrawi people to self-determination, while deploring UN’s incapacity to extend the mandate of MINURSO to human rights monitoring.
Petitioners reiterated that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) adopted an opinion upholding the rights of Sahrawi people to exercise, through a referendum, their right to self-determination and independence.
Present at this hearing, Katlyn Thomas, who chaired City Bar’s United Nations Committee, said that during the last two years, this committee conducted exhaustive investigations on legal issues related to Western Sahara.
Following these investigations, she added, the committee concluded that there are no legal foundations for Morocco to invoke its historical relation with Saharawi territories, before the Spanish colonization, to justify rights on Western Sahara." (SPS)
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