Western Sahara Urgent Action

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report Monday May 15, 2006 23:21 by Gar Fitzpatrick

EU to legitimize Morocco's illegal occupation of Western Sahara with fisheries agreement.

The International Court of Justice and successive United Nations resolutions have made clear that Western Sahara is Africa’s last colony, with a right to self-determination. For the past 30 years Morocco has occupied the territory and many of the Saharawi people have been forced into exile in Algeria.

Tomorrow the European Parliament votes on a fisheries agreement with Morocco. The proposed agreement will allow EU boats to fish in the waters of Western Sahara, strengthening the Moroccan occupation.

Please email your MEPs to express your concern.
National governments still have several weeks to decide so there is still time to lobby them aswell.

A Draft letter to MEPs and national governments is online at: http://www.fishelsewhere.org/action.htm

You can find contact details for MEPs at:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public.do?language=en

For more information:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=2...10005
There is a country profile of Western Sahara in New Internationalist 374, December 04, online at:
http://www.newint.org/