2024-07-27 13:19:45
MADRID, July 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The government of the self-proclaimed Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) has announced the exclusive exclusion of France from any international initiative or process related to the decolonization of Western Sahara in response to its support for the Moroccan strike plan for this region. This measure is directly related to France’s veto in the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Western Sahara (MINURSO).
“The SADR government condemns in the strongest terms the stance of the French government towards the Sahrawi people and their inalienable right to freedom, independence and self-determination,” he published in a statement received by the company official Sahrawi news, SPS.
“With this hostile position and promotion, France has removed itself from any initiative related to the international efforts for the rehabilitation of the Western Sahara,” because “it places France in the same place as the organizer and it allows us not to accept, ” “with its participation in the United Nations Mission for Elections in Western Sahara”, MINURSO.
For the Saharawi Government this is a “dangerous escalation” that will have “dangerous consequences for peace, security and stability in the entire region.”
“The Sahrawi people will not forget the past of French colonialism and its direct involvement in the efforts to destroy our people, against their opposition from the beginning of the 20th century, in the mid-50s and mid-70s,” he insulted.
Therefore, it has mentioned the bombings with Jaguar planes on the Sahrawi citizens and the support for the “illegal occupation” of the Western Sahara since October 31, 1975.
For this reason, he placed France as “participant in the current aggression against the Sahrawi people” as “a direct and previous accomplice of all the crimes related to the genocidal war carried out by the Moroccan state that took to our people.”
This position “shows once again the face of French colonialism” despite “boasting about being the seat of the first Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” “Those who defend human rights in truth do not support the work of the region that stands for decolonization. Those who defend democracy in truth and the government of the people do not support a government that commits murder, aggression and expansion,” he insulted .
Finally, the Saharawi Government assured that “it will oppose all efforts by the Moroccan government and those who support it, such as the French colonialists.” “The Sahrawi people are more determined than ever to continue their struggle and resistance by all reasonable means, including armed struggle, to defend their inalienable and non-negotiable right to freedom and independence.”
The response of the Saharawi Government was joined by the Sahrawi President, Brahim Ghali – also the leader of the Polisario Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra – and by the Algerian Government, a historical ally of the Polisario Front. However, there is no official French statement recently that includes a change of position on the Western Sahara dispute.
The former Spanish colony of Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco in 1975 despite the resistance of the Polisario Front, with whom it was at war until 1991, when both signed a peace agreement with the aim of holding self-determination, but the the difference on the preparation of the census and the inclusion or not of the Moroccan settlers has prevented us from calling now.
One of the latest setbacks for the Sahrawis is the support of the Spanish Government for the Moroccan strike plan, shown in March 2022 in a letter from Pedro Sánchez to Mohamed VI, a change of position described as a crime by the Polisario Front, which you remember that. Spain is still the ‘de jure’ governing power of Western Sahara.
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