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UK Labour Party for self-determination and respect for human rights in Western Sahara

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London, Sept 25, 2014 (SPS) - British Labour Party has reaffirmed, support to the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, calling for the respect of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.


In a meeting held in the presence of international participants, the press and diplomatic corps accredited to the UK, the Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Douglas Alexander, renewed the Labour Party’s position of support to the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.


Mr. Alexander underlined that the support to just causes and the respect for human rights remains a “sacred principle” for the British Labour Party.


The meeting was an opportunity for the UK minister to present to the foreign guests the foreign policy, to be adopted by the Party once winning the upcoming elections. (SPS)


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