Ban Ki-moon issues urgent plea to provide "more attention and action" to Western Sahara issue
Algiers, 7 March 2016 (SPS) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday, in Algiers, issued a plea to give "more attention and action" to the question of Western Sahara, a territory occupied by Morocco since 1975, insisting on Saharawi people's inalienable right to self-determination.
Speaking at the Diplomatic and International Relations Institute, Ban Ki-moon said the Saharawis people have the right to dignity and self-determination.
NGOs Consortium issue appeal to provide urgent additional funding for Sahrawi refugees
Shahid El-Hafed (Refugee Camps), 7 March 2016 (SPS) - The NGOs Consortium in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps has issued appeal to provide urgent additional funding for the UN agencies and NGOs, in a letter to UN Secretary-General Mr. Ban Ki-moon, a copy of it received Monday by Sahrawi News Agency SPS.
President of Republic awarded 2016 Please Prize by Norwegian organization
Oslo (Norway) March 14, 2016 (SPS) – The President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, has been awarded the 2016 Please Prize by Norwegian organization the Students’ and Academics’ International Assistance Fund (SAIH).
Sahrawis awaiting fulfilment of Ban Ki-moon's pledges
LONDON (UK), March 09, 2016 (SPS) - Polisario Front representative in London Mohamed Limam Mohamed Ali said Tuesday that the Sahrawi people are awaiting the fulfilment of the promises UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon made during his visit to the Sahrawi liberated territories and the Sahrawi refugee camps.
Madrid to host meeting on "Sahrawi women, 40 years of struggle for independence, freedom"
Madrid, March 09, 2016 (SPS) - Spain's capital, Madrid, will host a meeting on Saturday under the theme "Sahrawi women, 40 years of struggle for independence and freedom," announced Wednesday the delegation of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Madrid.
Ban Ki-moon shows through latest trip that Western Sahara conflict, decolonization issue
Algiers, March 10, 2016 (SPS) - Saharawi Coordinator to Minurso, Mohammed Kheddad, said Wednesday in Algiers that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's latest trip to the region has shown "what the international community has been proclaiming for years."
Kheddad stressed that "Western Sahara conflict is a decolonization issue and Morocco's alleged sovereignty over this territory has been rejected through all the resolutions issued by the international legality."
Western Sahara's final status must be determined through self-determination referendum, says UN
Washington,March 10, 2016 (SPS) - The United Nations affirmed Thursday that Western Sahara final status will be determined through self-determination referendum, rejecting Morocco's misleading claims about the Sahrawi occupied territories.
Morocco's accusations against Ban Ki-moon, "mark of panics"
Brussels, 11 March 2016 (SPS) - Saharawi Minister Delegate for Europe Mohamed Sidati said Thursday in Brussels that Morocco's attack on the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is a sign of panic from Rabat, which has taken every action possible, over the past years, to undermine UN efforts to settle Western Sahara issue.
Morocco's accusations against the UN chief clearly show the "nervousness of Moroccan authorities which has resorted, once again, to pressure and blackmail," Sidati told APS.
Ban's visit to Western Sahara: Morocco under international isolation
Madrid, 11 March 2016 (SPS) - Morocco is under international isolation and its positions are contrary to international legality and peoples' rights to self-determination, the representative of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) to Spain, Khira Bulahi, said Thursday.
Morocco is in an unenviable situation, the Saharawi official told APS in response to Moroccan government's latest statements regarding United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Western Sahara: Italian Parliament Friendship Intergroup on same wavelength as Algeria
Rome (Italy), 11 March 2016 (SPS) - Italian Parliament Intergroup for Friendship with Western Sahara People said it is "on the same wavelength" as Algeria, wishing a quick solution to Saharawi, and which, it stressed, is incumbent on the United Nations.
"The Parliament Intergroup that I chair is on the same wavelength as Algeria, which is a neighbour of the two parties to the conflict, in supporting a solution based on self-determination of Western Sahara people," Stefano Vaccari has stressed.