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Malaga Municipal Group for People calls for promoting solidarity with Saharawi people and recognizing SADR

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Madrid, June 18, 2017 (SPS) - Malaga Municipal Group for the People has just called in a motion tabled at the Municipal Council of Malaga to promote solidarity with the Saharawi people and to recognize the legitimate government of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
This political group also proposes, in its motion reported by the press, to recognize the Polisario Front as the sole and legitimate representative of the Saharawi people recognized by the UN and to give it diplomatic status in Spain.

Angolan Foreign Minister calls on African Union to continue efforts alongside United Nations to resolve Western Sahara issue

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Luanda (Angola, June 17, 2017 (SPS) - Angolan Foreign Minister, Georges Chikoti, has called on the African Union to continue its persistent efforts together with the United Nations to implement the decisions of international legitimacy in Western Sahara and to enable the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination and independence.

Statement by Ahmed Boukhari, Representative of the Frente POLISARIO to the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation-C24 13 June 2017 United Nations

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Statement by Ahmed Boukhari, Representative of the Frente POLISARIO to the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation-C24 13 June 2017 United Nations
Mr President,
On behalf of the Sahrawi people, I would like to thank you for the opportunity to address this important Committee where our country is still on its agenda as the last African colony.

Sahrawi Gdeim Izik group subject to unfair trial, international organizations say

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Rabat, June 16, 2017 (SPS) - The appeal proceedings of the Sahrawi political prisoners of Gdeim Izik group continued Thursday in Sale (Rabat) at a time when an international campaign is led to denounce the serious violations against the 24 political prisoners who are subject to an unfair trial.
 
The criminal chamber of the Court of Appeal of Sale resumed on June 5 the examination of the trial of these 24 political prisoners after four adjournments.
 

Sahrawi Ambassador in Mexico is received by Mexican Pachuca province local authorities

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Pachuca, Mexico, June 15, 2017 (SPS) - The Mexican Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Ahmed Moulay, received the highest honor from the Mayor of Pachuca, Mexico, Yolanda Thieria, in the presence of some of the authorities and staff of the municipality.
The visit of Sahrawi diplomat comes at the invitation of the mayor, with the aim of strengthening bilateral relations between the Saharawi Republic and the state of Hidalgo, Mexico, which is the capital of Pachuca.
 

French NGO ACAT asks French president to address in Morocco Gdeim Izik prisoners affairs

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Paris, June 15, 2017 (SPS) - The French organization ACAT asked the French president, Emanuel Macron, through a communiqué to include in his agenda in Morocco, the issue of Saharawi political prisoners, especially the group of Gdeim Izik.
The organization said that it had submitted multiple documents to international rapporteurs, denouncing the trial of Gdeim Izik's group, drawing attention to the fact that the evidence was based on statements obtained under torture.