Dakhla (refugee camps), 27 February 2016 (SPS) -Delegations from 22 countries, including that of Algeria led by Minister of Mujahedeen Tayeb Zitouni attended Saturday the official ceremony commemorating the 40th anniversary of the proclamation of the Saharawi Arab Republic Democratic (SADR), held in Dakhla (Sahrawi refugee camps).
President of the Saharawi Republic Mohamed Abdelaziz gave the kick-off ceremony of this event, in which delegations representing international organizations have partaken.
Besides Algeria, this landmark event in the history of the Saharawi people has been attended by delegations representing the African Union (AU), Mauritania, Namibia, Angola, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Gabon, Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Hungary, Austria, France, Spain and Italy.
The president of the Algerian-Sahrawi Friendship Parliamentary Group, Saida Brahim Bounab, as well as a cultural delegation, participated in this event.
The military exhibitions and demonstrations of the Saharawi Liberation Army and civilian participants showed the world the capabilities of the Saharawi State and achievements of 40 years in the areas of institution building and the Saharawi citizen.
Call for recognition of SADR
In a speech on this occasion, the President of SADR called on all countries of the world to accelerate the recognition of the Saharawi State (SADR) and support its candidacy at the United Nations.
"Fourty years after its establishment, the Saharawi State meets the conditions for membership in international organizations and bodies (...) we call on all countries of the world to accelerate the recognition of SADR, support its candidacy at the United Nations, fairness and peace and for the completion of the decolonization of the African continent," Abdelaziz stressed.
"This would be a good and wise decision, given that the independent Saharawi State, whose sovereignty will be completed on its national territory, constitutes a moderating factor of balance and stability in the region ...," Abdelaziz, also Secretary General of the Polisario Front, stated.
In this regard, he said that through its choice for open democracy and its conscious and peaceful people," the Saharawi State will create "cohesion between the peoples and countries of the region," regretting, moreover," the shameful role of international players in the promotion of the Moroccan occupation state to persist in intransigence and obstruction. (SPS)
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