Madrid (Spain), May 21, 2013 (SPS) - the Spanish associations in solidarity with the Saharawi people urged the Spanish Foreign Ministry to grant diplomatic status to Polisario Front mission in Spain as the sole and legitimate representative of the Saharawi people, as recognized by the UN, in a written message delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and cooperation of Spain in accordance with the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Polisario Front and the outbreak of armed struggle
the movement of solidarity in its letter, called on behalf of political parties, trade unions, organizations, institutions and individuals and the Spanish families contributing in the program of children summer holidays, for "making efforts to push forward necessary political initiatives, moving towards a just and final solution, in defense of the right of the legitimate Saharawi people right to self-determination through free and transparent referendum, as the only way to complete the decolonization of Western Sahara"
The solidarity movement sought from the Spanish Foreign Ministry to "urge the Kingdom of Morocco to release all Saharawi political prisoners, and to give up violating human rights, and the abolition of the trials against the Sahrawi citizens, and to allow observers and journalists and humanitarian organizations to access the occupied territories of Western Sahara”.
The message insisted on the need for the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (minurso) to carry out the task of monitoring the human rights situation.
The letter also appealed to the Government of Madrid to "expand the scope of humanitarian cooperation for the benefit of the Saharawi refugee camps, as a moral duty on the basis of historical responsibility for this country, which caused the outbreak of the conflict"(SPS)
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