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Morocco-EU fisheries agreement, violation of Sahrawi people’s right to exercise sovereignty over their wealth

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Madrid, Nov 12, 2013 (SPS) - Fisheries agreement between EU and Morocco is a “violation of the legitimate right of the Sahrawi people to exercise sovereignty over their country’s wealth,” said Polisario Front’s Representative in Spain Bachraya Bayun.


The Sahrawi official, who chaired a meeting on “the inking of a fisheries agreement between the Moroccan Kingdom and the European Union,” emphasized “the dimensions and irregularity of this agreement.”


The agreement, he pointed out, include Sahrawi territorial waters, “doesn’t take into account the approval of the Sahrawi side and violates the right of the Sahrawi people to exercise sovereignty over their country’s wealth.” (SPS)


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