Algiers, Dec 13, 2014, (SPS)- President of Republic Mohamed Abdelaziz, called on Saturday in Algiers the international community to take “severe” measures against Morocco which “continues to openly defy” the United Nations (UN) and undermine the efforts aimed at reaching a solution to the Western Saharan conflict.
President Abdelaziz affirmed in his speech, at the opening of the 5th International Conference of Algiers on “people’s right to resistance: Case of Sahrawi people,” that“ it is Morocco which refuses to receive UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy Christopher Ross and allow to his special representative Kim Bolduc to start her mission.”
Morocco, added Sahrawi president, is “responsible for crimes against humanity to have built a separation wall littered with millions of mines, banned at the international level.”
He also accused Morocco “to prevent the international and independent observers from entering the occupied territories, at the moment when it increases violent acts and other human rights violations against the Sahrawi populations.”
Morocco also “attacks the non-governmental organizations for revealing the reality of the violations perpetrated by the Moroccan occupying forces and the plundering of the natural resources of Western Sahara,” he added.
President Abdelaziz emphasized the necessity to expand the prerogatives of the United Nations Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to include human rights monitoring mechanism. (SPS)
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