Navarre Parliament urges for the organization of a self-determination referendum in the Western Sahara

Madrid, 27/12/2006 (SPS) The Parliament of the Spanish autonomous region of Navarre (North-East Spain) unanimously adopted a political motion, on Tuesday, to support the prompt organisation of a self-determination referendum in the Western Sahara under the auspices of the United Nations. The Navarre Parliament underlined in a motion that the self-determination referendum is an "inalienable right recognised to all the colonised peoples and defended without restriction by all the UN’s resolutions". The Parliament expressed its satisfaction about the adoption by the UN’s General Assembly, last December the 14th, of a new resolution on the Western Sahara reiterating that the conflict in the Non-Self-governing territory is a decolonisation one and that the solution must be conform to the international legality. The legislative body called on the UN to implement its resolutions on the conflict and impose the respect of these international decisions on Morocco and the countries supporting it in its colonial adventure. It further denounced the "massive human rights violations" in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, the systematic practice of torture against the Saharawi citizens by the Moroccan authorities and the Medias "black-out" and military "blockage" imposed on the territory by Morocco The Parliament also asked the Spanish Government to reconsider its current policy regarding the conflict and to favourably answer the appeals of the Spanish civil society that is clearly supporting the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence. (SPS)