Shaheed El Hafed, April 13, 2014 (SPS) - The Nordic Youth Council (NYC) the governments of these countries to work for compelling Morocco to accept the expansion of the prerogatives the UN Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include the monitoring and observing of human rights, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Nordic Youth Council in Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Greenland and The Faroes, issued a press release in which they considered the United Nations process in Western Sahara as a silent witness to human rights violations because the MINURSO is the only mission that does not have the power to report on these violations as the UN similar missions do elsewhere in the world. (SPS)
062