Boujdour (refugee camps)- Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar urged the United Nations to "end the deadlock over the Western Sahara issue."
"UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will pay a visit to the region by the end of 2015 and will be preceded by other preparatory missions by his special envoy to Western Sahara Christopher Ross. The Polisario Front is building high hopes on these forthcoming visits to see an end to the deadlock on the Sahrawi cause," he told a press briefing on the sidelines of the official festivities marking the 40th anniversary of the Sahrawi National Unity.
The Prime minister reiterated call on the international community to "take into consideration the Sahrawi cause," adding that "the Sahrawi people will not stand idly by forever while the situation is deteriorating the refugee camps and in the occupied territories by Morocco."
"The Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra and Oued Eddahab (Polisario Front) is preparing its 14th congress devoted to the development of future strategies for the mobilization of Sahrawis for greater activism to impose their rights, particularly their right to self-determination," he stressed.
Launched by the Sahrawi Prime minister, Sahrawi Defence Minister Mohamed El-Bouhali and members of the national secretariat, the festivities marking the 40th Sahrawi National Unity and the International Festival of Culture and Popular Arts taking place in the refugee camps of Boudjdour were attended by a large audience, delegations of African, European and South American countries, in solidarity with the Sahrawi just cause.
Algeria is participating with a large delegation comprising men of culture and artists. (SPS)
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