Brussels, Sept 30, 2016 (SPS) - The European Coordination Conference for Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (EUCOCO) welcomed the findings of the advocate general of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerning the issue opposing the EU Council to the Polisario Front on the EU-Morocco agreement for the liberalization of trade for agricultural products and fishing, underlining that the opinion of Wathelet contains “many positive points.”
“The opinion of CJEU’s advocate general has many positive points because it clearly underlines that Western Sahara is a non-self governing territory, that Morocco has no claim over this territory, and that the products coming from this territory can’t be exported by Morocco under the EU-Morocco association agreement and once again, the status of the Polisario Front as the legitimate representative of the Sahrawi people is confirmed,” EUCOCO’s President Pierre Galand told APS.
According to Galand, all the findings of the advocate general correspond to the international law. In this regard, he affirms that the CJEU’s judges, who will deliberate in the next few weeks, shouldn’t “go in the opposite direction.”
“It is the international law which is of prime importance. I do not see how, all of a sudden, the judges can go in the opposite direction,” he said on the sidelines of a conference of women on the right to resistance of Western Sahara. SPS
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