Month December 2020

Letter dated 21 December 2020 from the Permanent Representative  of Namibia to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council I have the honour to transmit herewith a letter from Sidi Omar, Representative of the Frente POLISARIO…

Lisbon, December 23 (lavanguardia.com).- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today denied the opening of a Portuguese consulate in Western Sahara and said that Portugal supports the relaunch of negotiations within the United Nations to reach a political solution. “The news…

(SPS) – Representative of Frente POLISARIO at the United Nations, Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, stated today that “there is a consensus among all members of the Security Council on the legal status of the question of Western Sahara, which represents…

Berlin (dts news agency) – The unilateral recognition of the Moroccan claim to the territory of the Western Sahara by the USA has met with criticism in the federal government. “We reject recognition at the expense of one side,” said…

Vienna (OTS / SK) – Most recently, statements by the Trump administration on Morocco’s claims to the Western Sahara and armed clashes between Morocco’s armed forces and the Polisario Front in the Guerguerat area further exacerbated the situation. The SPÖ…

PUSL.- Media Statement by Ambassador Jerry Matjila, Permanent Representative of South Africa, at the Media Stakeout following the UN Security Council Consultations on United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), 21 December 2020 Ladies and gentlemen of…

PUSL.- The statement transcribed below by Mr Heusgen Ambassador of Germany after the closed door meeting on Western Sahara this Monday, uses a characterization and termonology that PUSL considers unacceptable, patronizing and demonstrates an absolute lack of knowledge about the…

Equipe Media and CODESA report on the arrest of the young Sahrawi Youssef Bougharioune, Ahmed Al-Gargar, Ali Wadan and Nasrallah Al-garhi. Youssef Bougharioune, a known Sahrawi student and activist, was detained by Moroccan police on Tuesday, December 15, in El…

PUSL.- Through these solidarity gatherings this Saturday, December 19, hundreds of the Sahrawi community and the friends of the Sahrawi people in the two french cities condemned the violation of the ceasefire by Morocco under the eyes of MINURSO, following…

PUSL.- Dozens of British MPs called in a written motion for the House of Commons to recognize the right of the Sahrawi people to self-determination, deploring the recognition by the outgoing President of the United States Donald Trump of Morocco’s…

PUSL.- Saharawi political prisoner El Bachir Boutanguiza held a 48-hour protest on December 17 and 18 against the lack of medical assistance for more than three years. Boutanguiza is awaiting an operation on his knee due to injuries sustained during…

New York (United Nations) sadrembw.net.- Member of the National Secretariat of the Frente POLISARIO and Representative at the United Nations, Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, sent a letter to Member States of the United Nations today containing the views of the…

Videoconference: “WESTERN SAHARA – GENESIS OF THE CONFLICT AND THE ON-GOING WAR” Friday, 18th December, 3.45 PM Open debate with the participation of: Dr. Sidi Omar – Representative of Polisario Front at the UN. Isabel Lourenço – CEAUP Researcher Moderator:…

PUSL.- Ana Gomes, the former MEP of the Portuguese Socialist Party, diplomat and independent candidate for the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic, published a Tweet on Monday the 14th, in which she questions the silence of the Portuguese government about…

PUSL.- According to the family, yesterday, 14th of December, El Bachir Khadda’s cell was raided and all his belongings had been confiscated from his cell in Tiflet2 prison in Morocco. The Prison director was present and ordered the guards to…

PUSL.- Yesterday, 14th of December, in a short phone-call with his family, Mohamed Lamin Haddi informed that all his belongings had been confiscated from his cell in Tiflet2 prison in Morocco. His Cell was raided at around 9 am, the Prison…

The World Peace Council denounces to the peace loving forces in the world the recent agreement to normalize diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the state of Israel, in exchange for the US recognizing “Moroccan sovereignty over the…

The Association of Friendship Portugal-Western Sahara (AAPSO) in a note on the current situation in the Western Sahara: rejects the unilateral decision of the USA and hopes that the already elected and next American President will bring the country back…

PUSL.- After President Trumps announcement last Thursday of a U.S.-brokered deal between Morocco and Israel to normalize relations in exchange of the USA recognizing Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III and Mr. Cristopher…

PUSL.- Mohamed Bourial, a Saharawi political prisoner from the Gdeim Group, held a 48-hour protest fast this weekend. Currently detained in the prison of Ait Melloul sentenced to life imprisonment, Bourial who has serious health problems, remains untreated and is…

PUSL video interview (in English) with Mrs. Carmen Johns, former UN and MINURSO official, where she tells us about her years as a member of MINURSO and her observations while living in El Aaiun, capital of occupied Western Sahara. Among…