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UN urged on Human Rights monitoring in Western Sahara

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ALGIERS , December 16, 2013 (SPS)  – The participants to the 4th International Conference on "Peoples’ right to resistance: case of the Sahrawi people," called Sunday in Algiers in a declaration the UN to "expedite" the settlement of Western Sahara conflict and "expand" MINURSO prerogatives to monitoring human rights in the occupied territories.

 

In addition to these recommendations listed as priority in this meeting, participants also called in the "Algiers Declaration" the international community to exert "pressure" on Morocco to bring it to liberate "immediately" and "without preconditions" all political prisoners in Moroccan jails, as well as to know the truth about the fate of thousands of missing Sahrawis and the opening of an investigation.

 

The signatories of the declaration stressed, moreover, the need to "immediately" stop the plundering of natural resources of Western Sahara and urged the European Union (EU) as well as some governments to "respect international law."

 

In this regard, they condemned the fisheries agreement recently concluded between the EU and Morocco, which, according to the statement, "shows the double standards" of the EU vis -à-vis the Western Sahara conflict. (SPS)

 

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