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Paris,
03//11/2007 (SPS) A university meeting, organized by the
University Association for International Cooperation(AUCI) last
Friday, proposed to debate in a strategic way the issue of
Western Sahara and support the efforts to find a solution based
on the guarantee of the self-determination right to the Saharawi
people.
The AUCI, which works closely with the French Committee for the
Respect of Human Rights and Liberties in Western Sahara(CORLESO)
and the Magazine “The Saharan West”, and it is linked to the
University Paris X(Nanterre), organizes this forum which, in the
framework of the university cooperation for development, will
open the debate in a strategic way on the main problems of the
Saharawi people and support the efforts to find a solution that
guarantees the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination.
The AUCI affirms that the conflict between Moroccan and the
Saharawi people is lasting permanently and that the Saharawi
people are suffering in the refugee camps and the occupied
territories of Western Sahara because of the unwilling efforts
of France and the European Union to play a key role in resolving
the conflict.
The meeting also called researchers, academics, experts,
diplomatic and political leaders as well as the international
solidarity members, civil society and the media to open the
debate of the forgotten situation of the Saharawi people.
The AUCI is planning to start discussions on its next meeting
programmed for November the 24th at the University Paris X under
the title: “Western Sahara, Geopolitical Changes, Human Rights
and Self-determination” with a presentation on the history of
Western Sahara.
The forthcoming meeting will witness several interventions that
will put the light on the current stand of the conflict, the
illegal exploitation of the natural resources in the occupied
territories of Western Sahara as well as the Human Right
situation and the uprising of the Saharawi people against the
occupation and the violations and arbitrary trials witnessed by
international observers during the Saharawi activists presence
in the Moroccan courts. (SPS)
010/090/700 031035 NOV 07 SPS
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