Canary Islands (Spain), July 14, 2014 (SPS) -The Parliament of the Canary Islands affirmed its full support to the Western Sahara cause and the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination, a representative of the Polisario Front in the Canary Islands, Hamdi Mansour said.
In a statement to the Sahrawi Press Agency (SPS), at the end of a visit made by a delegation of the Polisario Front to the region, led by Khatri Addouh, President of the Sharawi National Council, Mansour underlined that “the seven parties represented in the Canary Islands Parliament fully support the Sahrawi cause and the Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination.”
“The Canary Islands delegations pay visits to Sahrawi refugee camps and in occupied cities to enquire about the situation of human rights in these regions,” he added.
Hamdi Mansour recalled that the Canary Islands receive, every year, 200 Sahrawi kids who come to spend their holidays in this Spanish region. (SPS)
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