Sydney, 7 June 2025 (SPS) – The Polisario Front’s representative to Australia and New Zealand, Mr. Kamal Fadel, has called on the international community to fulfill its legal obligations regarding the Western Sahara issue, stressing that the only legitimate solution is to allow the Sahrawi people to freely and fully exercise their right to self-determination.
In an article published Friday on Independent Australia, Mr. Kamal Fadel stated that "the right to self-determination is a fundamental principle of international law, enshrined in the UN Charter and the two International Covenants on Human Rights."
The Sahrawi diplomat recalled that the UN General Assembly explicitly reaffirmed this principle in its 1965 Resolution 2105, which recognized the legitimacy of colonized peoples' struggles for independence and called on states to support national liberation movements both materially and morally.
He further emphasized that Western Sahara remains on the UN list of Non-Self-Governing Territories as Africa’s last colony awaiting decolonization, adding that the 1975 advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found "no ties of territorial sovereignty between Morocco and Western Sahara." This, he argued, means Morocco "has no legal legitimacy over the territory."
The Sahrawi diplomat also cited UN General Assembly Resolution 34/37 (1979), which "strongly deplores" Morocco’s continued occupation of Western Sahara.
In this context, he asserted that the imposition of the so-called "autonomy plan" unilaterally constitutes "a blatant violation of international law."
The Sahrawi people, through their sole legitimate representative, the Polisario Front, categorically reject any proposal that excludes the option of independence, he stressed, declaring: "The Sahrawi issue is not an internal Moroccan matter but a decolonization issue that must be resolved based on the exercise of the Western Sahara people’s inalienable right to self-determination."
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