Parliament Canary Island houses the 4th and 5th of April the XIII Conference of the Parliamentary Intergroup "Peace and Freedom for the Saharawi People"
Santa Cruz de Tenerife .- The 4th and 5th April in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands Parliament building will host the XIII Conference of the Parliamentary Intergroup "Peace and Freedom for the Saharawi People", which includes all the groups in parliaments, courts and regional assemblies of the State, the Congress of Deputies and the Senate, comprising the totality of parliamentary parties of the country and is intended to "work for the just cause of the Saharawi people", as has been know the Saharawi Communication Service Canarias (SCSC).
A parliamentary intergroup is a gathering of several parliamentarians from different political groups, and in some cases, different legislative assemblies to discuss issues, conduct studies or reach agreements on matters of common interest, in this case, Sahrawi conflict situation and the defense of the main victims of the same: the Saharawi refugees in camps Tnduf, Algeria, and the Saharawi population in the territories occupied by Morocco since 1975 against international law.
open the meeting interparliamentary day 4 from 10:00 am, the Speaker of Parliament of the Canary Islands Cordobez Antonio Castro, the president of the Parliamentary Intergroup "Peace and Freedom for the Saharawi People", Juan Andrés Perelló, and the coordinator of Institutions solidarity with the Sahara, Txomin Aurrekoetxea. Later, at 11:00 hours, the parliament building Tenerife host a press conference open to all accredited media in the Islands. It is expected that the president of the Canary Islands, Paulino Rivero, closure of the session.
During the Conference, will be published first-hand information of the situation facing the peace process in the Sahara, by the representative in Spain of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Hamudi Bucharaya Beyun. Also present their respective reports, the President of the Federation of Institutions in solidarity with the Sahara, Carmelo Ramirez, the representative of the International Association of Jurists for Western Sahara, Felipe Briones, as well as associations of friendship and solidarity canary with the Saharawi people .
For its part, the Parliamentary Intergroup will take stock of the activities held in 2008, the Human Rights situation in the territories of the Sahara occupied by Morocco, care and assistance to more than 160,000 Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf camps articulate a roadmap for the year 2009, ending the meeting with an institutional statement that, in this case, be called the Declaration of Tenerife.
During its last conference, held in Santiago a year ago, the intergroup denounced the "serious crisis "of basic food supplies which are still the Sahrawi refugees in Tindouf camps and asked the World Food Programme, the UNHCR and the governments and European institutions to assume their responsibilities and avoid a humanitarian catastrophe. They also showed their "deep concern" about the arms sales to Morocco and urged the English authorities, the European Union and the Security Council of the United Nations "to ban it." Finally, they reiterated their "open willingness" to cooperate "from the consensus and cooperation" with the efforts that the Government undertake to contribute effectively to the solution "Just and lasting" conflict. (SCSC)
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