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The Saharawi President,
Mohamed Abdelaziz, declared Thursday that "POILSARIO Front and the
Saharawi people remain attached to the peaceful resistance and to the
international law and regardless the Moroccan provocations, we are
determined to get our legitimate rights and will seize any initiative
for peace and for the respect of human rights". Addressing the closing meeting of a Conference on human rights in the Italian city of Ariano Irpino, the Saharawi President called on the participants to support the newly constituted Western Sahara Human Rights Watch, which was created in the end of this international conference held in Rome. Mr. Abdelaziz also stressed the importance of the constitution of this human rights body and the role it must play for the protection of the Saharawi helpless citizens against the Moroccan colonial oppression, a source from the Saharawi presidential delegation indicated. The Head of the State, called on he Moroccan government not to waste the opportunity of the current negotiations held on the basis of the international legality and the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination. The works of the conference on human rights opened on Wednesday in the presence of jurists, intellectuals as well as presidents and delegates from Italian provinces, mainly from Ariano Irpino, Carfe et Mercoriana and Avellino. The vice President of the Supreme Council of Justice in Italy, Nicola Mancino, handed over a letter to the conference recalling that the Italian Parliament has unanimously asked the Government to grant diplomatic status to the representation of POLISARIO Front in Italy. He further hoped that the visit of President Abdelaziz to Italy and his meetings with Italian officials "would encourage the State bodies to implement the international legality". Another Italian judge, Nicola Quatrano, ho visited the occupied zone of Western Sahara, presented a documented testimony on the flagrant human rights violations committed by the Moroccan State. |