PARIS – APS.dz – A meeting chaired by the president of the Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Saharawi People (CNASPS), Saïd Ayachi, took place on Saturday in Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris, to discuss the current situation in Western Sahara, in order to contribute effectively to the just struggle waged by the Saharawi people against the Moroccan occupation.
The president of CNASPS explained the objectives of the meeting, which was attended by the coordinator of the CNASPS/France network, Rabah Lachouri, and the Polisario Front representative in France, Mohamed Ali Zerouali.
The aim of the meeting, which brought together Saharawi activists who are members of the network in the Paris region, was to “report on the current situation of the Saharawi question” and “clarify the issues and challenges generated by the situation imposed by the Moroccan occupier”, explains Saïd Ayachi in a press release issued by CNASPS.
During the meeting, Saïd Ayachi insisted on the “methodical organisation of the movement of solidarity with the Saharawi people in order to contribute effectively to the just struggle of the Saharawi people”.
To do this, he continued, it is necessary “to inform the general public and target groups about the realities and the true facts of the conflict in Western Sahara, and to sensitise them through meetings, conferences, visits (and other) media, with a view to creating exchanges and a healthy and objective debate which should lead to militant action in favour of the freedom and independence of the Saharawi people”.
In the same context, the president of CNASPS insisted on the need to “denounce the colonialist enterprise of the Moroccan regime, its violations of international law, its violations of human rights, its plundering of Saharawi natural resources”, but also “its obstacles and manoeuvres to prevent a just and definitive solution to the conflict, its policy of fait accompli and its strategy of running away”.
Saïd Ayachi added that the aim of the meeting was to denounce “the complicit silence of certain states and the impunity they guarantee the Moroccan regime”.
These objectives, insisted the president of the CNASPS, “must be at the centre of our attention in order to draw up a multifaceted action programme, in which each militant works, as an associative organisation, with method and coordination, pooling resources and complementing the available potential”.
In addition, the participants in the meeting shared their vision of the militant actions to be carried out in support of the just struggle of the Saharawi people.
The meeting was attended by diplomats, activists and defenders of human rights and freedoms from several African countries, including Togo, Mali, Benin and Gabon.
