The International Conference for the Solidarity with the Saharawi people, which is held in Madrid under the auspices of the Madrid mayor, ended today with the participation of mote than 250 national and international personalities. The conference was inaugurated by the Belgian Senator Pierre Galand, chairman of the European Coordination for the support of the Saharawi people. Besides, African and international personalities, representatives of the Spanish political parties who followed one another on the stage declared their full support for the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination. Saharawi President ended the intervention by calling upon Morocco to respect the international legality emphasizing on the peaceful option.
The Conference was closed by issuing the Madrid Declaration, as a response to the “Madrid Agreement” which divided Western Sahara between Morocco and Mauritania. The Conference came up with the Madrid Declaration that includes the following:
1- Reminding Madrid of its historical responsibility regarding the decolonization, which is known as “Madrid Agreement” and the occupation and partition of Western Sahara.
2- Spain remains responsible as long as the Saharawi people do not exercise their right to self-determination.
3- Calling upon the Spanish Government to assume its responsibilities and to put pressure on Morocco to stop oppression against the Saharawi people.
4- Calling upon Spain to put pressure on Morocco to set free all the Saharawi detainees in the Black Jail in Layoune and shed light on the fate of 651 missing Saharawis, disappeared after the Moroccan invasion October 31st 1975.
5- Calling upon the UN to exercise pressure on the kingdom of Morocco to respect the international laws in force and the resolutions related to the decolonization and the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people.
The former Saharawi minister of defence and present Polisario representative in Spain, Mr. Brahim Ghali, declared to El-khabar that “the Declaration will be read in front of the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry after the March which is organized today in Madrid.
Translated from El-khabar, Algerian daily newspaper.
By: Nafaa Mohamed Salem.
The Conference was closed by issuing the Madrid Declaration, as a response to the “Madrid Agreement” which divided Western Sahara between Morocco and Mauritania. The Conference came up with the Madrid Declaration that includes the following:
1- Reminding Madrid of its historical responsibility regarding the decolonization, which is known as “Madrid Agreement” and the occupation and partition of Western Sahara.
2- Spain remains responsible as long as the Saharawi people do not exercise their right to self-determination.
3- Calling upon the Spanish Government to assume its responsibilities and to put pressure on Morocco to stop oppression against the Saharawi people.
4- Calling upon Spain to put pressure on Morocco to set free all the Saharawi detainees in the Black Jail in Layoune and shed light on the fate of 651 missing Saharawis, disappeared after the Moroccan invasion October 31st 1975.
5- Calling upon the UN to exercise pressure on the kingdom of Morocco to respect the international laws in force and the resolutions related to the decolonization and the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people.
The former Saharawi minister of defence and present Polisario representative in Spain, Mr. Brahim Ghali, declared to El-khabar that “the Declaration will be read in front of the Spanish Foreign Affairs Ministry after the March which is organized today in Madrid.
Translated from El-khabar, Algerian daily newspaper.
By: Nafaa Mohamed Salem.
