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MOROCCO/OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/EUROPEAN UNION

The EU seizes Morocco on the human rights violations in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara

  

Brussels, 29/01/2007 (SPS) The European Commissioner for External Relations, Mrs. Benita Ferrero-Walder, warned the Moroccan Government, Tuesday in Brussels, urging it to "avoid any kind of criticism, justified or not, related to the respect of the human rights in the Western Sahara", press agencies reported.

 

Mrs. Ferrero-Walder, who was speaking before the European Parliament’s Commission for External Relations, stressed that Brussels "will follow from very close" the implementation by Morocco of the UN’s resolutions in the e-Spanish colony, admitting that "there was no progress to this date".

 

On another hand, the American organisation, Human Right Watch (HRW), has denounced, in its 2006’s report, systematic human rights violations in the Western Sahara perpetrated by the Moroccan Government as well as the security Black-out imposed on the territory, it should be recalled. (SPS)

 

010/090/666/TRD 291121 JAN 07 SPS

 

 

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