blame for incidents in Morocco Western Sahara
United Nations, April 13 (PL) The Polisario Front today blamed the government of Morocco for the casualties caused by landmines during the recent protests against the wall that divides the territory of Western Sahara.
About two thousand 500 people formed a human chain on 10th against the wall built by Morocco, as part of a peaceful campaign to demand its demolition and demand the right of the Saharawi people to self determination.
In a letter to the ambassador of Mexico, Claude Heller, who heads this month the work of the Council Security, the Polisario Front representative to the UN, Ahmed Boukhari, promote Morocco blamed that incident.
Several young Saharawi were injured by the explosion of a mine staff, highlighting the need for Morocco provide the UN and other organizations all the information to detect and disable such devices, said Boukhari.
The Saharawi diplomat stressed the Polisario Front's claim to the Security Council allow the UN Mission in Western Sahara (MINURSO) address issues of human rights in that territory.
The wall regarded as a symbol of the Moroccan military occupation of Western Sahara, was built between 1980 and 1987 under the pretext of containing the attacks of the fighters of the Polisario.
This construction of two thousand 800 kilometers long and guarded by some 160 000 Moroccan soldiers, surrounded by a field that hides around five million land mines, a continuing danger to the flow of civilians, he said.
POLISARIO 's protest to the Security Council comes after the authorities in Rabat called for the UN to assume responsibility for what they consider a "violation of the cease fire "Sahrawi fighters.
" Indeed, Morocco is not in a good position to require the UN to take any responsibility after it has sabotaged all efforts of peace that the world body has deployed over three decades, " Saharawi diplomat said ..
According Boukhari, Moroccan authorities should give the global community better evidence of a sincere political will to cooperate with the UN to achieve a just and lasting settlement of the conflict created by military occupation Western Sahara.
"But they are really doing is engaging in activities aimed at diverting attention from what is essential, "Boukhari claimed in his letter to Mexican Ambassador ..
Ban Ki-moon turns a blind eye to human rights in the Sahara
The UN Secretary General submitted his report to the Security Council. The document was inspired by American Christopher Ross
THE COUNTRY. Ignacio Cembrero - Madrid - 14/04/2009
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, has ignored ignore the appeals from various institutions requesting an extension of the mandate of the UN contingent in Western Sahara (MINURSO) to enable monitoring of human rights in that territory controlled by Morocco, and in the refugee camps of Tindouf (southwestern Algeria).
Ban Ki-moon has just drafted its report on the Sahara to put in a few days the Security Council of the UN. It is the first inspired by his new personal envoy, American Christopher Ross, substitute Peter van Walsum of the Netherlands announced in THE COUNTRY resigned on 28 August. The country has obtained a copy of the report before its publication (see attached).
"MINURSO has no specific mandate regarding human rights and the High Commissioner for Human Rights is not present in that territory or in the Tindouf refugee camps," said Ban Ki-moon. "I remember that the United Nations remains committed to improving the standard of human rights and reiterate my appeal to the parties [Morocco and Polisario Front] to continue engaging in a continuing and constructive dialogue" with the High Commissioner. At no time
Ban Ki-moon suggested the Security Council extend the mandate of MINURSO to have responsibility for human rights as requested by the report of the Delegation o ad hoc Western Sahara European Parliament adopted at first instance on 17 March and the American NGO Human Rights Watch, presented in Rabat on 19 December. Another report, the High Commissioner, made in 2006 but never officially released, also argued for better observation of human rights, without specifying who was responsible for it.
Morocco is reluctant to grant new powers to MINURSO while the Polisario welcomed an extension of the mandate. The Government of Spain expressed support in June 2005 to give the UN more authority in the former English colony, but since then silent. Democratic Party IU-ICV, ERC has filed a motion law in the Congress to try to force him to be redefined.
After his tour of the Maghreb, Ross found that "very little has changed since the last round of negotiations, held in the spring of 2008, between Morocco and the Frente Polisario. To facilitate the resumption of dialogue is therefore needed "a good preparation." Hence, the personal envoy recommend "one or two small informal preparatory meetings" before returning to sit at the negotiating table.
welcomes Ban Ki-moon, on the other hand, the reduction of ceasefire violations committed during the last twelve months. Their number fell to eleven, by the Royal Armed Forces, and seven with regard to the Polisario. Morocco is also responsible for having prevented the free movement of MINURSO to 75 times and their opponents in only two.
The incursion of civilians in the demilitarized buffer zone or the Sahara, which separates the two adversaries, is not prohibited by the 1991 agreements concluded under the auspices of the UN, he said, finally, Ban Ki-moon, thus rejecting implicitly some of the complaints of Morocco. The Moroccan Interior Ministry reported again on Saturday that 1,400 people, mostly English, came into that area, but "Accompanied by military-armed Polisario individual and mine detectors." They traveled on board 90 "SUVs" and ten trucks.
In at least one occasion, on 20 August, civilians behaved aggressively throwing stones at a patrol of MINURSO and the Moroccan soldiers stationed in the vicinity "with no armed forces of the Polisario bystanders intervene" UN laments. In its conclusions
Ban Ki-moon asked the Security Council renew the mandate of MINURSO for a further year, a longer period than usual that usually does not exceed six months. It is likely that the fifteen members of the institution to follow their recommendation.
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