Nouakchott, Feb 20, 2012 (SPS) - Mauritanian intellectuals and former ministers have assured that the Saharawi issue “still remains an obstacle in the way of building the Arab Maghreb Union (French acronym: UMA),” in a seminar organized Thursday in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, on the occasion of the UMA establishment under the motto: “Arab Maghreb Union and the future prospects."
The intellectuals addressed, in the seminar which was organized by the Arab-African Centre for Media and Development, the achievements and failures of the Maghreb Union.
Speakers in the seminar focused on the status quo of countries of the Maghreb and the future horizons of the Maghreb Bloc, in the light of the political changes in the region, pointing to the security, political, economic and social issues that entirely call to the need to adhere to the Maghreb Union as a unitary and strategic option.
The presence stressed that the question of Western Sahara constitutes “the biggest obstacle to the construction of the Maghreb edifice aspired by peoples of the Region.
The seminar was attended by a number of political, intellectual and media figures including Naji Mohamed Imam, Abdeslam Ould Harma, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Amah, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Wadadi, Dean of Mauritania's National Bar Association (ONA) Ahmed Salem Ould Bouhoubeyni, Head of the Mauritanian Journalists’ Union Houssein Ould Maddu, Ahmed Baba Ould Meska, Ali Ould Allaf as well as the professors Ismail Shuaib, Mohammad Ould Mohamedou, Nan Ould Al-Mami, Ahmed Habib Al-Han, Yahya Hashmi and other cultural figures. (SPS)
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