Moroccan autonomy plan is contrary to international legality (motion)
26/06/2007- Sahara Press Service

Dozen British parliamentarians signed a motion that considers the Moroccan proposition of autonomy "contrary to the principles of the international legality".

Signed by 38 MP so far from seven parties represented in parliament, the motion stipulates that the House of Commons, "who recognised the fundamental human rights of the Saharawi people express its vivid concern about the flagrant human rights violations perpetrated by the Moroccan colonial authorities in Western Sahara as reported in the report of the mission of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in September 8, 2006".

The motion, reported by Algerian Press Service, calls on the British government o intervene vis-à-vis the Moroccan State to convince it "respect the Saharawi people’s human rights".

It also calls on the British government to "continue supporting actively the efforts aimed to find a just and lasting solution that provides for the Saharawi people-s inalienable right to self/determination conforming to the Settlement plan and to the Baker plan unanimously adopted by the UN Security Council".

The text as signed by parliamentarians from the Labour Party, Independent Labour, Conservative Party, Plaid Cymru, Scottish National Party and Social Democratic and Labour Party. The motion is presented for signatures in the House of Commons on the initiative of a group of parliamentarians chaired by MP. Jeremy Corbyn.

Great Britain renewed its support to the United Nations (UN) efforts aiming at reaching a "just, lasting and mutually-acceptable solution guaranteeing the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination,” late this week, by British Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett during a parliamentary debate in the House of Commons on the foreign policy.

The British official declared that the “UK fully supports the efforts of the UN Secretary General and his Personal Envoy to Western Sahara, Mr. Peter Van Walsum”, aiming to help the “two parties to the conflict to find just, lasting and mutually-acceptable solution guaranteeing the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination". (SPS)