Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 19, 2011 (SPS) - The Basque Deputy from the Spanish Popular Party (PP), Mr. Carmelo Barrio Borja, expressed Sunday the support of his Party to the application of the UN resolutions on decolonization of Western Sahara, calling for respecting the political and civil rights of the Saharawi people.
In an interview with SPS on the sidelines of the Polisario 13th Congress, Mr. Borja recalled that the positions of the foreign ministries of the successive Spanish government “has been always biased to the Moroccan thesis and did not have sense by the Saharawi people’s cause,” adding that the Socialist government’s foreign policy has always been a very regrettable saying: “worse than the Socialist Party did in the Saharawiu cause, Popular Party will not do.”
With regard to message of the Popular Party to the Polisario Thirteenth Congress, the Spanish official expressed that his Party “supports and defends the international law and application of the UN resolutions which states that the Western Sahara is a Territory awaiting decolonization process,” stressing on the need to implement and respect international law.
“Morocco does not implement and respect international law,” said Mr. Borja, calling for the application of self-determination referendum to allow the Saharawi to freely decide their future.
He also noted that Morocco “always obstructs the application of self-determination in Western Sahara,” adding “the Saharawi people only want that Morocco respects their political and civil rights.”
In a response to a question on the call of Spanish Foreign to its nationals not to visit the Saharawi refugee camps following the kidnapping of European cooperates, Mr. Borja stated “the Frente Polisario and Saharawi people should not be accounted for the operation, but Spaniards must be invited to visit the Saharawi refugee camps,” expressing hope to find a quick solution to case of the kidnappers.
The Spanish official noted that the Frente Polisario and Saharawi government “are making every efforts to guarantee the stability and safety of the foreign cooperators inside the Saharawi refugee camps,” adding that through many visits as collaborators or as politicians to the Saharawi refugee camps “we found a climate of cooperation, security and comfort to perform our work.”
“The crime on the cooperators is an exceptional and will not limit work of the cooperators,” said Mr. Borja, calling on the Spanish Foreign not to give false information to the Spanis nationals. (SPS)
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