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London,
16/12/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political
prisoner, Ali Salem Tamek, indicated that officials of the Irish
Ministry for Foreign Affairs, he met with last Friday in Dublin,
reiterated the support of Ireland to the Saharawi people’s right to
self-determination.
In a statement to the Algerian Press Service, APS, after his meeting
in the seat of the Irish Foreign Affairs Ministry, with the Director
General of the Department for the Middle East and North Africa, Mr.
Steven Dawson and the Director of Human Rights within the Ministry,
Javan Olrey, the Saharawi human rights activist underlined that Mr.
Dawson affirmed that Ireland "shares the view of the Saharawis who
consider that the humanitarian problems can not be resolved apart of
a just and lasting solution of the Saharawi question on the basis of
the respect of the right of the Saharawi people to
self-determination, conforming to UN’s resolutions".
The Irish Republic continues to be concerned about the human rights
situation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara so as to
prevent the reputation of tragedy lived by Mr. Tamek and his
companions during and after the Saharawi Intifada in 2005, Mr.
Dawson affirmed.
This engagement follows a presentation by the Saharawi militant on
the critical situation of the human rights in the occupied
territories of the Western Sahara within the framework of a visit to
Ireland started last Thursday following an invitation of the
Organisation Front Line.
The Saharawi militants seized this opportunity to inform his
interlocutors about the complicity of the Moroccan State with the
network of illegal migration in the Western Sahara.
This method of pushing the Saharawi youth to migration, Tamek says,
aims to empty the occupied territory of the young forces which is
very active in the Intifada.
Ireland, which supports the Saharawi people’s right to
self-determination like the Nordic countries, has voted in favour of
the UN General Assembly’s resolution adopted on Thursday and that
reiterated the international community’s attachment to the Saharawi
people’s right to self-determination.
Front Line, has visited Morocco and the Saharawi occupied
territories and met with the Saharawi officials and human rights
activists last May 2006.
After this visit, the organisation published a report in which it
condemned the violations committed by the Moroccan authorities and
the abuses of the Saharawi people’s most fundamental rights. (SPS)
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