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(Special Envoy)
Nairobi, 24/01/2007 (SPS) During the second workshop organised by
the Saharawi delegation to the World Social Forum on the
decolonisation of the Western Sahara and the international law,
about one hundred participants from many nationalities concluded
that the self-determination of the Saharawi people is the only
viable way to resolve the question of the Western Sahara, with the
participation of some imminent international political and
associative personalities.
Under the theme "Western Sahara: the path to self-determination",
the workshop was opened by Mr. Mohamed Zrug, member of the Saharawi
Jurists to discuss about the legal Status of the Saharawi territory
and the best ways to resolve the conflict, which languished.
In his intervention, Mr. Mohamed Sidati, member of the National
Secretariat delegated to Europe underlined the accountability of
France and Spain in the persistence of the conflict of the Western
Sahara without solution. He asserted that the only viable solution
is to give the word to the Saharawi people through a fair and
transparent referendum under the auspices of the United Nations.
The spokesperson of the Catalan Esquerda Unida-Els Verts, Joan Saura,
on his part, openly called the present participants to express their
condemnation to this French and Spanish attitude via inviting the
two governments to review their positions.
He further called on the Head of the Spanish Government "to abandon
its position of realpolitic vis-à-vis this problem and adopt a
responsible attitude especially that Spain is still the de iure
administrating power of this territory in which Morocco is violating
Saharawi people)s human rights".
Jaume Serra, from the Catalan Institute for Human Rights, indicated
in his intervention that "we should forget about realpolitic and our
convergent positions on the theme and advocate the implementation of
the international law".
The workshop was marked by the presence of Chico Buarque, one of the
members founding members of the World Social Forum, who insisted to
intervene in the workshop to express his condemnation to the
attitude of a group of Moroccan secret services agents and some
renegades from Saharawi origins; who has nothing to do with the
associative activism.
The workshop was also marked by the participation and presence of
European parliamentarians and Senators in addition to Pan African
Parliamentarians and activists of different associative movements
and countries. (SPS)
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