Havana, May 03, 2018 (SPS)- - A Saharawi delegation has participated in the International Solidarity Meeting with Cuba, where more than a thousand delegates from all continents took part, representing the trade union movements on the occasion of the International Day of Workers.
Algiers, May 03, 2018 (SPS)- The Frente POLISARIO denied Morocco’s allegations according to which the POLISARIO has relations with Iran in the military field, defying Rabat to present evidence of these “false allegations,” after deciding to break off its relations with Teheran “because of its support to POLISARIO.”
Chahid El Hafed (Saharawi refugee camps), May 02, 2018 (SPS) - the Speaker of Sahrawi National Council, Mr. Jatri Aduh has held on Tuesday a press conference at the Media Archive about the preparation of the forthcoming national events focusing on the celebration of the 45th anniversary of the establishment of Frente POLISARIO and the anniversary of the outbreak of the armed struggle 20 May.
New York, April 30, 2018 (SPS) - The resolution extending the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) by six months represents a turning point in the handling of the Sahrawi issue by the Security Council, said M’Hamed Khedad, the Sahrawi coordinator with MINURSO.
“It is a turning point in terms of the interest attached by the Security Council and international community to the solution of the conflict,” Kheddad told APS.
Madrid, April 30, 2018 (SPS) - The Coordination of Solidarity Associations with the Sahara (CEAS-Sahara) has expressed in a statement "its utmost concern regarding the situation of the French citizen Claude Mangin Asfari, who belongs to the French Association of Friendship with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and wife of one of the Saharawi political prisoners of the Gdeim Izik group."
New York, April 28, 2018 (SPS) - The United Nations Security Council adopted, in a debate Friday on the issue of Western Sahara, a resolution which reaffirms the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination and calls on the two parties to the conflict, Morocco and the Polisario Front, to hold negotiations “without prerequisites and in good faith,” under the auspices of UN Secretary General.
Algiers, April 28, 2018 (SPS) - Algeria “notes with satisfaction” the new resolution on the issue of Western Sahara that the United Nations Security Council adopted Friday and underlines that this resolution reaffirms that there is no other solution to the conflict but that which enables the Saharawi people to exercise their inalienable right to self-determination, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abdelaziz Benali Cherif in a statement following the adoption of the UN resolution.
New York, April 28, 2018 (SPS) - The United Nations Security Council adopted Friday, in New York, a draft resolution extending by six months, until 31 October, the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Holding of a Referendum in Western Sahara.
By 12 voices in favor and three abstentions (Russia, China and Ethiopia), the Security Council adopted a resolution which calls the two parties in conflict, Morocco and the Polisario Front, to resume negotiations, at standstill since 2012, without pre-conditions and in good faith.
Stockholm, April 28, 2018 (SPS) - Representatives of Swedish political parties called Thursday on their government to implement the recommendation that had been approved by the Swedish Parliament calling for recognition of the Saharawi State, during a debate on the situation in the Middle East and North Africa.
New York, April 27, 2018 (SPS) - The UN Security Council called on the parties to the conflict, Morocco and Western Sahara to resume direct negotiations, dubbing "unacceptable" the status quo resulting from the stalled peace process.
In its draft resolution on the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to be voted Friday night, the Security Council has affirmed that the progress in the negotiations is necessary for improving the life of the Sahrawi people.