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When Morocco continues to appropriate the right of the Sahrawi people to
self-determination and independence through the organization of free and
fair referendum supervised by the United Nations;
When Kangaroo trials, torture, rape and forced disappearance of human
rights activists in the occupied Sahrawi territories were hppening and
peaceful demonstrators are being dragged to the courts, including military
tribunals and are being denied their civil political, social and cultural rights;
When Morocco continues it illegal exploitation and systematic plunder of the
mineral and marine resources of Western Sahara against the will of its
people and in violation of the international law;
Amidst preliminary negotiations between the Polisario and Morocco under
the auspices of the United Nations in the run up to the fifth round of direct
negotiations under the auspices of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary
General in the Western Sahara, Ambassador Christopher Rose;
Amidst interactive international debate within he UN Security Council and
General Assembly and weighty demand by International Organizations in
the field of human rights for the creation of an international monitoring and
reporting mechanism on the human rights situation in Western Sahara
through the UN Mission for the organization of referendum in Western
Sahara (MINURSO).
9.
The Sahrawi Government avails itself of this opportunity to commend the African
Commission on Human and Peoples Rights for its role in the promotion of human and
peoples rights in our continent and it would like to express its willingness to always
engage in dialogue and constructive cooperation with the Commission.