Shaheed Hafed (Sahrawi refugee camps), March 7 , 2014 (SPS) - The international community and the United Nations (UN) “are called to assume all their responsibilities towards the Sahrawi people,” said Wednesday, in Chahid El Hafed, Khatri Addouh, head of the Sahrawi delegation for negotiations with Morocco.
The international community and the UN are called to “assume all their responsibilities towards the Sahrawi people and to seek ways enabling them to honour their charter and respect their decisions taken in favour of the Sahrawi people in 1991, date of the signature by the Polisario Front and Morocco (conflicting parties), under the aegis of UN, of a ceasefire to organize a referendum allowing the Sahrawi people to decide on their fate,” said Khatri in a press briefing at the end of the first talks session held between the Sahrawi delegation and UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy Christopher Ross.
He added that the Sahrawi delegation for negotiation with Morocco reiterated to Ross “the willingness of the Sahrawi side to cooperate with UN to end, as soon as possible, this conflict,” underlining, in this regard, that “UN’s responsibility is to put an end to the colonization of Western Sahara, on the basis of the international legitimacy, UN Charter and the total respect of Sahrawi people’s right to self-determination.”
“The Sahrawi delegation for negotiations drew, once again, the attention of the Ross to the continuation, by the Moroccan occupation, of the violation of human rights in the occupied territories, the plundering of Western Sahara’s natural resources and the construction of a separation wall in Western Sahara,” said the official. (SPS)
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