Brussels, Nov 5, 2013 (SPS) - The request to extend the mandate of MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) to include humans rights monitoring in Western Sahara is becoming more and more an “international issue” as the situation is “extremely serious and highly sensitive” in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, the Saharawi Minister Delegate for Europe, Mr. Mohamed Sidati, said Monday.
It is “more than necessary” to the international community to make more efforts to "put an end to (Morocco’s) flagrant violations" against Sahrawi people.
Colonisation of Western Sahara is an “affront to universal conscience,” he stressed.
“The international community, especially the United Nations, should respond to Saharawi population’s cry for help, by extending MINURSO’s mandate to see suppression and oppression we are undergoing on a daily basis.”
Sidati stressed that the European Parliament deplored that MINURSO’s mandate had not been extended to include human rights monitoring in the occupied territories.
Charles Tannock’s report, adopted recently by the European Parliament, is “crystal clear” about human rights abuses. (SPS)
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