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Thursday 6 March 2014

Morocco condemns Algeria's blatant contradiction on self-determination

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Morocco condemns  Algeria's blatant contradiction on self-determination

Morocco denounced on Thursday before the Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva, the contradiction of Algeria on self-determination, since it claims to support this principle and at the same time allows its army to kill the people who choose self-determination and decide to leave the Tindouf camps.

Reacting to a statement made ​​the previous day before the HRC by Algerian Foreign Minister on the situation of human rights in the Moroccan Sahara, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Morocco to the UN in Geneva, Omar Hilale described the way Algiers addresses the issue of self-determination as "an attempt to mislead the Council of human Rights."

The diplomat who spoke under the right of reply, noted that Morocco's Sahara autonomy provides for consultation with the people of the Moroccan Sahara."

Hilale recalled that the Algerian army killed on January 5, two Sahrawis and wounded several others as they reached the Mauritanian border, calling on the HRC, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the High Commissioner for Refugees to shed light on this serious incident.

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