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Larger autonomy, suitable solution to Sahara conflict, Spanish PP Spokesman 12/16/2008
Granting a "larger autonomy" to the Moroccan Southern provinces constitutes a suitable solution to the Sahara conflict, spokesman for the conservative Popular Party (PP) in the Spanish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Commission, Gustavo de Aristegui, underlined.In a statement published Monday by "Canarias 7" daily, the Spanish MP criticized the polisario which has shown over the past two decades a reluctance to change, saying that contrary to the Polisario’s obstinate stance, Morocco "made a lot of progress".
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FM denounces allegations of supposed human rights abuses in Morocco's southern provinces 12/15/2008
Moroccan Foreign Minister, Taib Fassi Fihri, denounced, on Friday, recent declarations and writings alleging human rights abuses in Morocco's southern provinces.In a statement to the press, during a special session of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council to mark the 60th anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights (UDHR), Fassi Fihri recalled that the Moroccan delegation had affirmed that the nobility of human rights could in no case be exploited for narrow political schemes.
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Corcas chairman meets European Commissioner for External Relations 12/12/2008
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King denounces suffering, humiliation of the Moroccans held in Tindouf camps 12/11/2008
King Mohammed VI denounced the humiliation and suffering inflicted upon Moroccan citizens held in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps, Algeria in "gross violation of the basic principles of international humanitarian law."
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UNHCR sets Tindouf camp populations at 90,000 12/11/2008
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has set the population of the Polisario-run Tindouf camps, Algeria at 90,000, thus questioning again the numbers put forward by the Algeria authorities, which still refuse to conduct a census of these populations. Morocco has requested, during two decades, the UNHCR to conduct a census of these populations, in accordance with the international scientific criteria, in order to collect accurate demographic data on the number of people living in these camps and on their origins.
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