New York (United Nations), May 10, 2023 (SPS) - The Polisario Front has renewed its commitment to using all legitimate means to defend the sacred rights of the Sahrawi people and their national aspirations for liberation and independence.
In a Press release issued by its representation at the United Nations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro, the Polisario Front made it clear that it is equally determined to use all legitimate means to defend the sacred rights of the Sahrawi people and their national aspirations for liberation and independence.
Here is the full text of the Press release received by SPS:
“Representative of the Polisario Front in the United Nations
Press release
May 10, 2023
Today, the people of Western Sahara commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro (Polisario Front), the sole and legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people and the national liberation movement leading their struggle for freedom and independence.
The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary comes in a context clearly characterized by the continuation of the Sahrawi armed struggle, which resumed on November 13, 2020, due to the Moroccan occupying state's violation of the 1991 ceasefire.
The UN-led peace process in Western Sahara remains stalled, mainly due to the lack of any political will from the part of the occupying Power which continues, with complete impunity, intransigence and war of aggression along with the inaction of the Security Council.
During the past fifty years, the people of Western Sahara, led by the Polisario Front, made great strides in building and modernizing their state institutions while escalating and expanding their national liberation struggle. The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a founding member of the African Union, has become an irreversible national, continental and international reality.
The peaceful resistance in the occupied Western Sahara against the illegal Moroccan occupation continues unabated. Above all, half a century of struggle, resistance, sacrifice and state building is a powerful testimony to the firm determination of the people of Western Sahara, united under the banner of the SADR, to restore their freedom and independence, whatever the cost.
Since its founding fifty years ago, the reason for the existence of the Polisario Front has always been to defend the inalienable, non-compromising right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination, independence and the establishment of sovereignty over the entire territory of the Sahrawi Republic.
Renewing its commitment to contribute constructively to the efforts of the United Nations and the African Union to complete the decolonization of Western Sahara, the POLISARIO Front is equally determined to use all legitimate means to defend the sacred rights of the Sahrawi people and their national aspirations for liberation and independence”.
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