Finland-SADR 17-21 Sep 2007

In Helsinki

Mr. Yahiaoui Lamine , Polisario's representative for the Nordic
Countries paid a visit to Helsinki , during which he was received at
the Finish Foreign ministry by ANNA GEBREMEDHGIN , deputy Director of
Africa and middle East department and PAULIINA HELLMAN-FIELD programme
officer, the discussion between the two parties focused mainly on the
last development of  Western Sahara conflict and the outcome of the
two rounds of direct negotiations between  Morocco and Polisario which
took place in June and August   under  the auspices of UN .
Mr Lamine drew the attention Of. the Finnish side to the fact that
Western Sahara is a decolonization question established by UN since
1963 as a Non-Self-Governing Territory  ,thus the Saharawi people
should exercise their inalienable right of self-determination and
decide the status of their country in a free ,democratic and genuine
way.
"It become  imperative that the European countries defend actively the
right of the right of the Saharawi people as stipulated in the
deferent UN resolutions  , ignorance explicitly or implicitly  to  the
moral ,political responsibility of international community toward the
Saharawi plight for more than  three decades  will only encourage the
Moroccan  occupation to inflict more suffering and prolong this long
overdue conflict much longer" Said Mr Lamine.
In the foreign Ministry The Polisario's representative handed over a
letter from the Saharawi authorities addressed to H.E  Mr Likka
Kanerva  the Finnish Foreign Minister .

In Finnish Parliament "Eduskunta" The Polisario Envoy has meet
politician and member of parliament from different political parties:

Mr Tero Shemeikka  International Secretary of  SDP , Sari Essayah
Secretary General of the Christian Democrat  ,Mr Jari Haapiainnen
International Secretary of  Center party ,Mr  Pekka  Haavesto MP
foreign affairs committee of the Finnish Parliament, Mr Jukka Manninen
Secretary for International Affairs of  National  Coalition Party ,Mr
Jacob Soderman MP (SDP), Tiina Hankkarainen assistant of Helevi
Jarvinen MP  Green party, Mr  Turo Bergman  International Secretary of
 left alliance party

Mr. Lamine underline to his interlocutor The boiling situation in the
occupied territories of Western Sahara resulted from the accumulation
of the Moroccan repression policy against the Saharawi  people and
the implementation of the  strategy of  isolation of  the occupied
territories Western Sahara , and depriving the world from  knowing the
Moroccan wrong doing, totally  in violation of human right .

"Morocco has , for a very long time carried, a policy of  :
abductions,  murder, systematic torture, forced displacement,
arbitrary arrestation of individuals, families and groups, ransacked
homes, destroyed property , slaughtered cattle, all of this exercised
against the rights of unarmed innocent Saharawi civilians, in addition
to deprivation of the  political and civil rights, suppression of
freedoms and the prevention of association and peaceful assembly, and
other economic, social and cultural rights." Said Mr Lamine