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Lesotho defends self-determination of Sahrawi people

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New York (United Nations), 25 September 2021 (SPS) - Lesotho regretted Thursday that the inalienable right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination is still not guaranteed.
“It is regrettable that the persistent denial of the inalienable right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination has still not been resolved”, Prime Minister of Lusotho, Moeketsi Majoro, said on Thursday at the 76th session of the Assembly. General (GA) of the UN.
“The people of Western Sahara aspire to peace, freedom and the right to determine their own destiny,” he added.
“For many years, the efforts of the UN to facilitate the transition to independence (of Western Sahara) have not yielded any concrete results,” he lamented.
He also recalled that Lesotho “looks forward to the conclusion of the Western Sahara process so that the people of that country can freely determine their own future”.
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