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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