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Rome, 13/07/2007 (SPS) Italian Parliament asked the
government to grant Polisario Front’s representation in Rome a
status of a diplomatic mission, to pay efforts to ensure the holding
of a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people and to
condemn the repressive practices of the Moroccan government in
Western Sahara.
In a motion adopted on Wednesday, the Italian low Chamber called on
its government to "recognise to the representation of POLISARIO
Front a diplomatic status as it was done in the past with other
movements of liberation recognised by the UN as interlocutors to
peace projects".
The motion also asks for "initiatives" aiming to find a solution to
the conflict with "the full recognition by the parties of the
principle of self-determination for the Saharawi people, and not to
recognise any kind of rights of sovereignty to the kingdom of
Morocco over Western Sahara as long as the Saharawi people does not
ecide through a free and democratic referendum".
Recalling that the prolongation of the conflict for more than three
decades in Western Sahara, which forced thousands Saharawis to
exile, while other thousands "living in the territories occupied by
Morocco, are victims to unacceptable human rights violations".
The Italian Parliament invited the government to act so as to put an
end "to the humanitarian tragedy the Saharawi people is living for
more than 30 years under an abuse of all its fundamental rights".
(SPS)
010/090/000 131213 JUL 07 SPS
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