Dajla (refugee camps), April 30, 2015 (SPS) - The organizing committee of the International Film Festival in Western Sahara (FiSahara) on Thursday morning organized a political seminar about the struggle for emancipation and decolonization in Western Sahara.
The event was presided by the Head of Polisario Front’s Political Organization Secretariat Mr. Salem Lebsir, South African Ambassador in the Saharawi Republic (SADR) Mr. Dennis T. Dlomo, the Head of Algeria delegation, and the President of the Coordination of the Spanish Associations of Solidarity with the Saharawi People (CEAS-Sahara) Mr. Pepe Taboada.
Addressing the audience, Mr. Salem Lebsir praised long struggle against injustice and oppression waged by the peoples of South Africa and Algeria, adding that the Saharawi people can drew many lessons from those experiences.
Ambassador Dlomo, for his part, talked in detail about the struggle of the South African people to get rid of the Apartheid racist regime, confirming that his participation in FiSahara reflects the official position of his government on the question of Western Sahara.
Head of the Algerian delegation reiterated his country’s “constant and absolute” solidarity with the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence, deploring the daily suffering experienced by innocent Saharawis in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.
He, on other hand, stressed the important role can be played by international media, present at the Festival, to send out the story of the Saharawi people.
“After 40 years of repression and tyranny against the Saharawi people, it is high time for the international solidarity movement to start acting as a political movement,” said Mr. Pepe Taboada, President of CEAS-Sahara.
Calling for an international campaign to impose a negotiated political solution to the conflict, Mr. Taboada urged Spanish Government to assume its responsibility towards the Saharawi people, and to change its attitude on Western Sahara issue.
Among petitioners were also members of the National Secretariat, Saharawi Government, parliamentarians and foreign delegations. (SPS)
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