Udenrigsudvalget 2015-16
URU Alm.del Bilag 63
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12/03/2015
Please find attached Aide-Memoire issued by POLISARIO Front on December 2015 on
the holding of the annual session of Crans Montana Forum in the occupied Western
Sahara on 17 – 22 March 2016.
AIDE-MEMOIRE
ON THE HOLDING OF THE ANNUAL SESSION OF CRANS MONTANA FORUM IN
THE OCCUPIED CITY OF DAJLA IN WESTERN SAHARA
The Swiss owned and managed organisation, the Crans Montana Forum, based in the
Principality of Monaco, is planning to hold for the second time its annual session in the
city of Dajla (Dakhla) in the Moroccan-occupied territories of Western Sahara on 17-
22 March 2016.
The decision taken by the Crans Montana Forum to hold again its annual session in
the occupied city of Dajla is clearly contrary to the rights and interests of the Sahrawi
people and to the relevant principles of international law applicable to Western Sahara
as a Non-Self-Governing Territory.
The Sahrawi Government and the leadership of the Frente POLISARIO have officially
expressed once again to the Crans Montana Forum their deep concern about the
planned meeting, which is a provocative move that may have adverse consequences
on the current developments of the question of Western Sahara.
Following press reports of an alleged high-level United Nations presence in the 2015
meeting in Dajla, the spokesperson of the UN Secretary-General issued a note to
correspondents on 14 March 2014 indicating that the Secretary-General had not
delegated anyone to represent him or the United Nations in that meeting. He further
noted that the definitive status of Western Sahara was the object of a negotiating
process being conducted under the auspices of the Secretary-General in accordance
with the relevant United Nations resolutions.
Regards,
Abba Malainin
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THE REPRESENTATION OF FRENTE POLISARIO
( WESTERN SAHARA) IN DENMARK
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Western Sahara ( VESTSAHARA)
Africa's last colony
URU, Alm.del - 2015-16 - Bilag 63: Afholdelsen af Crans Montana Forums årsmøde i Dakhla, Vestsahara, i marts 2016
In 1963, the United Nations (UN) included Western Sahara in the list of countries to be decolonized and asserted the
right of the Saharawi people to self-determination. In 1966 the UN, for the first time, passed a resolution calling for this
self-determination to be exercised by a referendum. On 31 October 1975, Morocco and Mauritania invaded Western
Sahara as Spain (the former colonial power) looked on. The Saharawi people were expelled from their homes by force,
including the use of napalm. In 1991 the United Nations brokered a ceasefire and agreed to organize a referendum in
which the Saharawi people could vote on the future of Western Sahara. Morocco still refuses to allow UN sponsored
referendum to take place.