The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara and Head of MINURSO Mr. Wolfgang Weisbrod-Weber of Germany paid Tuesday a farewell visit to the Saharawi refugee camps, where he met with senior Saharawi officials.
The UN envoy, in this regard, met with the President of the Republic Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, Prime Minister Abdelkader Taleb Omar, Minister of Defense Mohamed Lamine Bouhali, Minister of Occupied Territories Mohamed El-Ouali Akeik and the Minister of Education Mariam Salek Hmada.
Mr. Weisbrod-Weber will complete his mission on 31 July, while Ms. Kim Bolduc of Canada will take as from the beginning of August on as a special representative of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara and Head of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).
Polisario Front has earlier welcomed the appointment of Ms. Bolduc, expressing willingness to cooperate with her so to promote the mission of MINURSO, mainly in organizing a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people in accordance with the UN Security Council resolutions, Secretary General reports and General Assembly charters.
Established by the UN Security Council in its resolution 690 of 29th April 1991, the mandate of the MINURSO was recently extended on 29th April 2014.
A peace demonstration was recently held in the city of Seville (Spain), under the slogan “Andalusia asks Morocco to release Saharawi political prisoners and ensure freedom and independence for the Western Sahara”.
“Thousands of protesters” answered the call to a demonstration initiated by organizations of human rights in the region of Seville. Protesters gathered in the Incarnacion square in the downtown, wearing the emblem of the Polisario Front and chanted slogans against Morocco and for freedom and peace in Western Sahara”.
Policemen, presidents of associations and organizations of human rights and the Polisario Front representative in Andalusia participated in the demonstration.
On this occasion, the representative of the Polisario Front, Abidine Bachraia asked the Spanish government to “honour its commitment to the principle of decolonization in Western Sahara,” stressing that the solution is “the exercise by the Saharawi people of its right to self-determination.”
