Quito, 4 August 2024 (SPS) - The participants in the 28th International Seminar on Problems of the Revolution in Latin America (SIPRAL) held from July 31 to August 3, in the Ecuadorian capital, reiterated their commitment to the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination.
"We reiterate our firm and unwavering commitment to the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people and in particular, that their legitimate voice, represented by the Polisario Front, be heard and respected within the United Nations Security Council," said Patricio Aldaz, spokesperson for the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE), who read a communiqué sanctioning the work of the seminar hosted by the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Central University of Ecuador in Quito, under the slogan "Against imperialist war and genocide".
The participants stressed, in the communiqué, that "no Western power, including Spain and France, has the power to establish the destiny of the Sahrawi people, especially through a so-called autonomy granted by an anachronistic and autocratic regime like the Moroccan feudal monarchy, which acts far from the principles and norms of international human rights and occupies the territories of Western Sahara, preventing the right to full independence and sovereignty of the Sahrawi people".
This seminar was attended by delegates from about twenty countries in Latin America, Europe and Asia.
In a communication he presented, the coordinator of the Ecuadorian Association of Friendship with the Sahrawi People (AEAPS), Pablo de la Vega, analyzed and explained the legal and political convergences of the struggles of the Sahrawi and Palestinian peoples.
He said that there are at least two key elements in these processes of national liberation: the right to self-determination of peoples, established in the founding Charter of the United Nations, and the right to complete independence of the so-called non-self-governing territories, contained in General Assembly Resolution 1514, known as the Declaration on Decolonization.