Algiers, November 10, 2014 (SPS) – The urgent need to consolidate stability, peace and development are the focus of Algeria’s approach, Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra said Sunday in Algiers, underlining that the region needs the completion of Western Sahara decolonization process.
In this regard, "Algeria welcomes the new democratic achievement which is the recent legislative elections in Tunisia, of significant importance for the Maghreb countries and elsewhere," Lamamra said on the occasion of the celebration of United Nations Day.
Algeria foreign affairs chief added that "our region also needs a complete decolonization process in Western Sahara which is the responsibility of the UN in compliance with the resolutions of the UN General Assembly and Security Council and on the eve of the 40 anniversary of the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice which supported self-determination as requirement of the solution to be implemented in this territory."
Included since 1966 on the list of non-autonomous territories, and thus eligible for the implementation of the Resolution 1514 of the UN General Assembly on the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, Western Sahara is Africa’s last colony, occupied since 1975 by Morocco with the backing of France. (SPS)
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