Algiers, December 15, 2014 (SPS) -Chairman of the Algerian-Mauritanian friendship committee Mauritanian at the parliament, Mohamed Ahmed Salem Talebna, said Sunday in Algiers that the decolonization of Western Sahara in accordance with international law is "urgently needed" to achieve peace and stability in the region and the completion of the Arab Maghreb building.
"The decolonization of Western Sahara in accordance with international law, is now a pressing need for the achievement of peace and stability in the Sahel region of Africa," said Mohamed Ahmed Salem Talebna who chairs a Mauritanian parliamentary delegation at the works of the 5th International Conference on "The right of peoples to resist: the case of the Saharawi people".
He said that "the establishment of a Sahrawi state will allow facing crime, drug trafficking and terrorism in the African Sahel and the Arab Maghreb region, noting that "the independence of Western Sahara will contribute to the completion of the building of an Arab Maghreb quite capable of meeting the aspirations of its people to economic and social prosperity."
Mohamed Ahmed Salem Talebna added it was essential for countries to meet the challenges of the current stage, to grant the brother Sahrawi people its independence so that it freely expresses its will to build an independent state on the basis of human values and United Nations resolutions on decolonization."
"It is in the interest of Europe to help the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination through the organization of a free and fair referendum under the aegis of the UN organization," he further stated. (SPS)
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