Algiers, 18 November 2020 (SPS) - The American news channel (CNN) has taken great interest over the situation in El Guergueratn, Southwestern Western Sahara, reporting in particular the statements of the Sahrawis regarding the violation of the ceasefire by Morocco.
Under the title "The leader of the independence fighters in Western Sahara says at the end of a 29-year ceasefire with Morocco", the TV channel echoed the statements of the President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Brahim Ghali, in his letter to the UN, in which he said that by launching its aggression in the region, Morocco has "seriously undermined not only the ceasefire and related military agreements, but also all the chances of achieving a peaceful and lasting solution to the question of the decolonization of Western Sahara."
CNN also picked up a dispatch from the Sahrawi News Agency (SPS) indicating that Sahrawi forces had also "launched attacks against the Royal Moroccan Army in Western Sahara, causing loss of life and equipment," even if the "Moroccan government has not yet commented on these statements," the U.S. media said.
In addition, CNN also delivers the version of the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which, the U.S. media said, "claims that the border operation was aimed at consolidating the cease-fire" and that the Polisario Front has "blocked the movement of people and goods and harassed UN troops on the way," acts that "violate" according to the same ministry "the military agreement and threaten regional security and stability.
The UN, however, denied any "harassment of their troops," CNN said, before repeating the statements of UN spokesman Nick Birback, who said "MINURSO has engaged peacefully" in el Guerguerat with Sahrawi demonstrators and "with the Moroccan army" in order to "reduce tensions, since the beginning of the demonstrations on October 21.
Friday, Moroccan occupation forces Moroccan occupation forces are led at dawn, a military aggression in the buffer zone of El-Guerguerat by opening three new illegal breaches in violation of the agreement of ceasefire signed in 1991 by the two parties (Morocco and the Polisario Front), under the aegis of the UN. (SPS)
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