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40th anniversary of National Sahrawi Assembly: Determination to continue struggle for independence

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9-June School (Refugee Camps), 30 Nov 2015 (SPS) - The participants in the festivities marking the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Sahrawi National Assembly reaffirmed Saturday their determination to continue the struggle for the independence of the Sahrawi people.

 

The parliamentarians and human rights’ activists who took part in this event underlined the need to continue the struggle through all the peaceful means, urging the international community to assume its responsibility and put pressure on Morocco’s headlong rush. 

 

Sahrawi Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar called on the United Nations to “assume their responsibilities” and apply the international law so that to end the Moroccan occupation of the Sahrawi territories.

 

He underlined that the international support from which benefits the Sahrawi cause and the determination of the Sahrawi people to continue their struggle for independence “worry Morocco which persists in rejecting the self-determination referendum.”

 

For his part, the head of the Sahrawi National Assembly Khatri Addouh denounced “the Moroccan hindrances to the UN efforts for a peaceful solution to the Sahrawi conflict by rejecting new negotiations and the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination.” (SPS)

 

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