Berlin (Germany), May 14, 2016 (SPS) - Members of the Bundestag (German Parliament) and representatives of the association “Freedom for Western Sahara” called for the organization of a self-determination referendum in Western Sahara, according to a communiqué made public.
Frank Heinrich, of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), Kerstin Tack, of the Social-Democratic party (SPD), Sevim Dagdelen, of the Left Party (Die Linke) and Katja Keul, of the Green Party, called for the organization of a referendum “as soon as possible in Western Sahara, according to a communiqué made public on Thursday, on the occasion of a debate in the Bundestag’s plenary session on Western Sahara, themed “25 years of ceasefire in Western Sahara- Implementing Resolution 690 of the United Nations, for the holding of the referendum.”
These members also called for the extension of the United Nations Mission for the Organization of a referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to the monitoring of human rights.
Registered since 1966 on the list of non-autonomous territories, making it eligible to the implementation of resolution 1514 of the United Nations’ General Assembly, on granting independence to colonized countries and peoples, including Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa, occupied since 1975 by Morocco. (SPS)
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