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SNRW: It is necessary for UN to assume legal responsibilities towards protection of Saharawi resources (Report)

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Shaheed El hafedh (Sahrawi refuge camps), November 2013 (SPS) -  “It is necessary for the United Nations to assume its  legal responsibilities towards the protection of the Saharawi resources as  it did in similar cases in East Timor and Namibia,” said the Saharawi Natural Resource Watch (SNRW) in a report Tuesday.

 

The report, on Fisheries in the occupied territory of Western Sahara, under the title :” Saharawis: Poor People in a  Rich Country, How Saharawi natural resources are pillaged,” calls on “the members of the European parliament never to vote in  favor of the EU-Morocco fishing agreement, as the same grounds that  resulted in the cancellation of the previous agreement are still there”.

 

The report recommends “all States and foreign  companies to refrain from importing the Sahrawi products or investing in  the occupied Western Sahara as these activities are in violation of the  international law and only encourage and feed the colonization”.

 

The report presents useful data and information about the  nature of the Saharawi fishing wealth, the species targeted by foreign  fishing industry, the amazing invasion of Moroccan fishermen to the  territory, where more than 40 fishermen villages were built in the last two  decades.

 

It also unveils the truth about the corruption, and the Moroccan  non-official fishing sector, since it reveals the numbers of boats and  fishermen actually working in Western Sahara, while absolutely not reported  about in the official books.

 

SNRW in this report presented all the reasons and arguments that  should dissuade other countries and companies from investing in the  territory, starting with Morocco, which is only a de facto force of  occupation.

 

The Saharawi Natural Resource Watch (SNRW) is a newly constituted Saharawi group  specialized in monitoring and reporting about the foreign exploitation and  plunder of the resources of this last colony in Africa, Western Sahara. (SPS)

 

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