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July 2021

Cs demands EU Commission to stop agricultural products importation from occupied Western Sahara

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Brussels, July 08, 2021 (SPS) - Jordi Cañas EUMEP has denounced that the illegal practices of Morocco with “the sale of tomatoes from Western Sahara camouflaged as Moroccans violate numerous European laws and the EU-Morocco Association Agreement, which establish that products that arrive in Europe are required to have a label indicating the origin of their production ”

Western Sahara: UN action "weakened" by Security Council's interests

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Abidjanm , July 08, 2021 (SPS) -The UN's action for the settlement of the Western Sahara conflict is "weakened" by the interests of some permanent members of the Security Council, so much that it makes it lose its credibility with the Sahrawi people, said Wednesday Sahrawi Foreign Minister, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, to the Ivorian newspaper Dernière Heure.
In an interview with the daily, Ould Salek said that "the action of the UN is weakened by the interests of some of the permanent members of the Security Council."

Sahrawi political prisoner Mohamed Hassanna Ahmed Salem Bureal goes on a warning hunger strike

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Ait Melloul Local Prison 2 (Morocco), July 7, 2021 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisoner Mohamed Hassanna Ahmed Salem Bureal, started on Tuesday a warning hunger strike for forty-eight hours in protest at the lack of response to his demands, which include the improvement of his conditions of detention, the right to medical care and access to the minimum conditions of accommodation, taking into account that he suffers of malnutrition and is without blankets or mattress to sleep.

Morocco hinders appointment of UN envoy to Western Sahara, says Polisario Front

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New York, 3 July 2021 (SPS) -The Polisario Front representative to the United Nations (UN) Mohamed Sidi Omar said Saturday that Morocco hinders the appointment of a personal envoy of the United Nations (UN) Secretary General to Western Sahara to impose the policy of fait accompli and maintain the political status quo in the region, calling on the Security Council to take urgent action.

Aminatou Haidar calls on UN to assume its responsibility in Western Sahara

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EL-Aaiun, 3 July 2021 (SPS) - President of the Sahrawi Body against Moroccan occupation (ISACOM), Aminatou Haidar, called on the United Nations to assume its responsibility and to conduct urgent and thorough investigations into the human rights violations committed by Morocco in the occupied Sahrawi cities.
"Western Sahara has been at the mercy of a brutal occupation since 1975. It is time for the United Nations to take responsibility for decolonization," said Aminatou Haidar in a statement before the UN Human Rights Council.

Morocco is responsible for blocking appointment of new UN envoy to Western Sahara

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Algiers, July 01, 2021 (SPS) - - Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Algeria, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, said that the Moroccan system was responsible for blocking the appointment of the personal envoy of the UN Secretary General to Western Sahara with the intention of maintaining the political status quo, calling on the United Nations to denounce this pernicious step before the international public opinion.