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Brussels, 09/04/2008 (SPS) European Parliamentarians of the intergroup "Peace for the Saharawi people" asked on Wednesday for the adaptation of a strategy of struggle in favour of the Saharawi cause.
During a meeting with the representatives of the EUCOCO (European Coordination for the solidarity with the people of Western Sahara) and the European associative movement in favour of the self-determination of the Saharawi people, the Portuguese European Parliamentarian, Anna Gomez, proposed more offensive new initiatives to make the "difference" and ameliorate the "visibility" of the Saharawi cause.
Parting from the standing point that the European Union goes back to the UN regarding the question of Western Sahara, despite the historical responsibility in the decolonisation of one of its members, Spain, Ms. Gomez estimate that by concentrating on the Saharawi-Moroccan negotiations under the auspices of the UN, "we play the game of Morocco that perpetuates the status-quo on the ground and that bets on the colonial de facto".
She proposed stronger actions such as sending a group of European Parliamentarians in the Saharawi territories, "even though the Moroccan authorities continue to oppose, so as to draw the attention of the public opinion and the international institutions and engage the responsibility of France, which is going to chair the European Union starting from this July, and is the main supportive of the Moroccan thesis".
On his side, the vice-President of the intergroupe "Peace for the Saharawi people", Meyer Pleite Willy, denounced the passivity of the European Union that "prefers to turn the head away" so as not to "exercise pressures on Morocco to compel it respect the UN’s resolutions in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination".
The decolonisation of Western Sahara, according to many speakers also suffers from the attitude of Spain, which is "failing" its historical duty towards the territory having been the colonial power.
Other European Parliamentarians and members of the European movement of support to the Saharawi people denounced the violations committed by the Moroccan State against the Saharawi militants in the occupied zones of Western Sahara. They also denounced the European fishing agreement with Morocco that they qualified as illegal.
The Saharawi Minister delegated for Europe, Mohamed Sidati, who was invited to participate to the meeting, stressed that the calls to the change of strategy comes at a moment when POLISARIO Front had left all options open during the last congress of the liberation movement in Tifarity, including the possibility of resuming armed struggle. (SPS)
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