Bir Lehlou (liberated zones), Feb 6, 2015 (SPS) - The Frente Polisario on Thursday declared that according to international law, the Crans Montana Forum cannot be celebrated in the occupied city of Dajla.
The communiqué indicated that despite numerous warnings addressed to them, lately of which by the African Union, the Crans Montana Forum intends to hold from 12th to 14th March 2015 an international conference on economic cooperation and development in Dajla, a Western Sahara occupied city presented as if it is a Moroccan city.
It also added that the Polisario Front mandate lawyer Maître Gilles Devers in order to obtain the cancellation of the above-mentioned forum.
For the Polisario Front, such conference cannot be celebrated without being accompanied by grave violations of international public order.
“The decisions and authorizations granted to the NGO Crans Montana Forum by the Moroccan authorities on the territory of Western Sahara are null and void,” stated the communiqué.
Similarly, the communiqué underlined that all sums Crans Monatana Forum expected to give to Morocco authorities would be considered a “direct assistance to an illegal military occupation.”
According to Article 73 of the UN Charter, Western Sahara is a non-autonomous territory and Morocco, the occupying power under international humanitarian law, has no right whatsoever over it.
This legal status was affirmed by the International Court of Justice on 16 October 1975, and has been repeatedly confirmed by all United Nations bodies.
In a judgment made on 21 November 2014, the Spanish National Court stated that Spain “continues to be the administering power of Western Sahara” and is required under UN Charter to complete the decolonization of the territory. (SPS)
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