The saharawi women would like to congratulate the group of british MPs and MEPs and other personalities from the United Kingdom for their wonderful iniciative carried out on last friday, june 12th, to deliver a letter to the british Primer Minister on the worrying situation in the occupied Western Sahara.The high level Downing Street delegation has delivered a letter urging Gordon Brown take immediate steps to resolve the crisis in Western Sahara , now in its 33rd year.
The letter, from President Mohamed Abdelaziz, asked that Britain act immediately to help end the continuing occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions and the judgement of the International Court of Justice.
The occupation has left 165,000 indigenous Saharawi refugees to languish in camps in the Algerian desert for over three decades.The delegation has comprised MP's and MEPs, representatives of the Polisario Front, ( Western Sahara ’s legitimate government) and several Ambassadors including Her Excellency Lindiew Mabuza, South African High Commissioner.
This event has been followed by a meeting in the House of Commons to launch a major new awareness-raising campaign. The plight of Saharawi people is a forgotten struggle. Their collective failure to address Morocco’s ongoing violation of countless UN Resolutions, to stop the illegal plundering of Western Sahara’s natural resources and to allow human rights abuses to be committed with impunity diminishes Britain, it diminishes the United Nations and it is an affront to all those with a belief in justice. They called on Gordon Brown to take a principled stand and take urgent steps to ensure that the UK takes a lead within the UN Security Council to fulfil its obligation to ensure the referendum on self-determination that was agreed under the terms of the UN ceasefire agreement in 1991.
Jeremy Corbyn MP (Chair of the APPG on Western Sahara )
Her Excellency Lindiwe Mabuza (High Commissioner of South Africa )
Y.Lamine Baali (Polisario Front Chief-representative UK and Ireland )
Mohamed Liman Ali Ami (Polisario Front),
Mark Leutchford (President, Western Sahara Campaign UK )
Danielle Smith (Chair of Sandblast)
John Gurr ( Western Sahara Resource Watch)
Ken Ritchie (Western Sahara Campaign UK )
Stefan Simanowitz (Free Western Sahara Network)
Mark Thomas, comedian and human rights campaigner
Ruth Tanner (campaigns and policy director, War on Want)
Glyn Ford MEP (European Parliamentary Labour Party)
Malcolm and Pat Hawksworth (Peace for Stoke)
The british newapaperThe Guadian published last thursday the british MPs and MEP´s letter.
Jeremy Corbyn MP (Chair of the APPG on Western Sahara )
Her Excellency Lindiwe Mabuza (High Commissioner of South Africa )
Y.Lamine Baali (Polisario Front Chief-representative UK and Ireland )
Mohamed Liman Ali Ami (Polisario Front),
Mark Leutchford (President, Western Sahara Campaign UK )
Danielle Smith (Chair of Sandblast)
John Gurr ( Western Sahara Resource Watch)
Ken Ritchie (Western Sahara Campaign UK )
Stefan Simanowitz (Free Western Sahara Network)
Mark Thomas, comedian and human rights campaigner
Ruth Tanner (campaigns and policy director, War on Want)
Glyn Ford MEP (European Parliamentary Labour Party)
Malcolm and Pat Hawksworth (Peace for Stoke)
The british newapaperThe Guadian published last thursday the british MPs and MEP´s letter.
