Paris, Sept 7, 2013 (SPS) - Rapporteure of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Liliane Maury-Pasquier will head, by early October to Algeria for an information visit to help her to “complete” a report on the European Parliamentary contribution to the settlement of Western Sahara conflict, it was announced during a meeting on the matter in Paris.
“Algeria is part of the solution to the Sahrawi problem and, from this point of view, it is important to meet first the Algerian authorities, then the Sahrawis in refugee camps and see first hand the maximum of things to complete my report,” she told APS at the end of a meeting of Parliamentarians and politicians from Morocco, Algerian and Western Sahara by PACE Commission for political and democracy issues.
For the Swiss Euro-deputy, the collection of “maximum of information” during this visit, between 6 - 9 October, will bring to her report “all the items” which may help her to propose solutions to the conflict.
Earlier, PACE Rapporteure Liliane Maury-Pasquier voiced her “conviction” that meeting and exchanging views with parliamentarians is a “first stage towards more democracy, respect and human rights,” even if she admits that the European Union has no “magic wand” to find solution to a conflict that UN did not succeed to solve.
Moreover, Polisario Front delegate to France Omar Mansour detailed the three reasons why SADR refuses Morocco’s “Autonomy Plan,” recalling that Western Sahara is a Non-Self-Governing Territory, registered in the UN Decolonization Agenda and the only Administering Power which remains recognized by the UN in Spain.
“Morocco’s presence in Western Sahara is a de facto occupation,” he declared, noting “that no country recognize the Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara,” and “nothing can replace the democratic choice that the Sahrawi people has to make freely, without administrative or military constraints” in self-determination referendum planned since decades by UN. (SPS)
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