Caracas (Venezuela), May 11, 2023 (SPS)- Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Mr. Yván Gil, saluted in a tweet the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro.
"We send on this occasion the highest expressions of solidarity and we hope that the international community will support the just issue of the Sahrawi people." said the President of the Venezuelan diplomacy.
Mr. Yván Gil indicated in his tweet, that after fifty years, the Polisario Front proved its conviction of the struggle for the independence of the last colony in the African continent.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro or simply the POLISARIO Front, was established on May 10, 1973, in order to put an end to the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by Spain and then Morocco.
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a founding member of the African Union and has been recognized as a sovereign country by more than eighty countries, most of which are from Africa and Latin America.
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