Sweden protests against EU fishing on the Western Sahara coast
EU has concluded a deal about fishing in the waters outside the Moroccan coast that includes also fishing in the Western Sahara territory, which according to the UN is occupied.
Sweden is protesting against this and sees that this deal goes against the international law.
Sweden was the only country that voted no to the suggestion about the fishing agreement with Morocco, when the EU countries ministers of fishing met in Brussels this Monday.
The reason is that this agreement also includes Western Sahara, an area that according to the UN is illegally occupied by Morocco.
“Western Sahara is not part of Morocco, the people there have the right to decide themselves over their natural resources, we stand up for our principles and therefore we voted no”. Said minister of agriculture Ann-Christin Nykvist.
She concludes that “the EU countries have signed the UN decision to classify Western Sahara as an occupied territory and means that the other countries are not consistent when they vote for this agreement”.
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Western Sahara, is a country in North West Africa, it lost its freedom and independence in 1884 when put under Spanish control after the Berlin Colonial Conference in the same year. As a result of geopolitical and economic calculations, It was illegally handed over to Morocco in 1975. Backed by strong allies, Morocco bloodily invaded Western Sahara.The people of Western Sahara are since then struggling with abnegation and sacrifice to defend their freedom, dignity and independence.
