Chahid Al Hafed (refugee camps), Jan 22, 2014 (SPS) - Polisario Front has reiterated willingness of the Saharawi party to cooperate “constructively” with the efforts being made by the UN Secretary General and his Personal Envoy Mr. Christopher Ross, aiming at decolonizing the Western Sahara.
In a statement concluded a meeting of its Bureau held yesterday, National Secretariat of the Polisario Front called on the UN to assume “full responsibility” towards the decolonization of Western Sahara, which goes through the exercise by the Saharawi people of their natural and legitimate right to freedom and independence, through a free, just and transparent referendum on self-determination.
The statement, on other hand, “strongly” condemned Moroccan state’s policies of settlement, looting of Saharawi natural resources and repression carried out against the innocent Saharawis in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and in southern Morocco, lately of which the crackdown on a peaceful demonstration held in the occupied city of El Aaiun mid-January.
It also expressed “deep concern” over the condition of health of the Saharawi political prisoners incarcerated inside Moroccan jails, appealing to the UN to “speedily intervene” to protect and release them.
The statement, in this respect, recalled to the need to set up a mechanism allowing the MINURSO Mission to protect, monitor and report about Morocco’s human rights abuses in the occupied Western Sahara. (SPS)
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