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Nairobi,
24/01/2007 (SPS) The World Social Forum Parliamentarian Platform (FSM)
approved, Today in Nairobi, a motion of support to the
“self-determination of the Saharawi people, the immediate
implementation of the UN’s resolutions and the holding of a free and
just self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people".
Proposed by Brazilian Parliamentarians, Jakson Barito and Vanesa
Fraziditin, the text was unanimously ratified by the assembly of the
Parliamentarians Platform held within the framework of the closing
debates, conferences and workshops of this 7th edition of the World
Social Forum.
The parliamentarians, from dozens nationalities, expressed in this
motion their support to "the Saharawi people, who are struggling to
get back their homeland from Morocco", "the latter having divided
the Saharawi territory in two with a military wall of more than 2500
km long”.
On another hand, the fourth day of the Forum was marked by a massive
participation by the members of the Saharawi delegation to different
workshops, debates and to the General Assembly of the Forum to
underline again the need to "decolonise the last colony in Africa".
Concerning the Saharawi stand, where the Saharawi Campaign for the
Banning of Landmine and the Association of the Families of the
Saharawi Disappeareds and Prisoners (AFAPREDESA) jointly exhibit
pictures of the victims of the Moroccan repression in the occupied
territories of the Western Sahara. The stand attracted the attention
of hundreds participants who come to hear explanations about the
situation and express their solidarity with the Saharawi cause.
The Saharawi tent, on its part, became an additional space for
discussions, debates and cultural exchange with visitors from many
countries, who visit the Saharawi to drink the Saharawi tea and
start the contact with the members of the delegation.
Finally, the Saharawi musical group “Estrella Polisaria”, which is
accompanying the Saharawi delegation performed in 4 events and as
got many other rendezvous.
(SPS)
060/NAIROBI/000 242132 Jan 07 SPS
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