Droit à l’autodétermination au profit du peuple sahraoui

Right to self-determination for the benefit of the Sahrawi people

Cardinal principle

“Our foreign policy is based on cardinal principles including the right to self-determination that we claim for the benefit of the colonized peoples on this land and we will not change,” recalled the permanent representative of Algeria to the United Nations in New York, Amar Bendjama, during the work of the session of the UN Decolonization Committee (C-24), held the day before yesterday Tuesday in New York, and devoted to the question of Western Sahara.

“Our only motivation, our only ambition, it is noble and we are proud of it and as we have done in many regions of the world, for the liberation of oppressed peoples, we will continue to be alongside the occupied peoples,” underlined Amar Bendjama who, thus, reframed, with two rights of response, the Moroccan ambassador to the UN, Omar Hilal, about the process of decolonization of Western Sahara by recalling the historical truths and the fundamentals of the Sahrawi conflict . He reacted to the fallacious and hackneyed narrative of the Moroccan delegation on this subject. The Moroccan ambassador was destabilized by the intervention of the Algerian delegation and other delegations, but also and above all by the active participation of several petitioners campaigning for the Sahrawi cause, including Moroccan nationals. In his responses, also addressed to certain countries espousing Moroccan theses, Ambassador Bendjama made it clear that he wanted to express his reaction to “those who cited my country in their interventions/quotations, which, seems to me -he, derive from the same talking points. On the question of round tables, he said that “it is less the table than the menu that poses a problem”.

“Morocco only wants to discuss its so-called autonomy proposal there. Ask him if he wants, as the legitimate representatives of the Sahrawi people wish, to discuss self-determination, the referendum, human rights, the illegal exploitation of resources,” he asked. Concerning human rights in the Tindouf camps, Ambassador Bendjama recalled that “there are several international organizations which are currently in Tindouf and which regularly testify on the situation in the refugee camps”. “None of these organizations noted any anomaly or violation,” he insisted.
On the other hand, Algeria has repeatedly requested and reiterates today the expansion of the mandate of Minurso (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) to monitor the human rights situation in the Sahara. Western. Until now, Morocco’s response has always been negative.
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