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Protestletter EU

Skrevet 15 Januar 2009

Send nedenstående brev til Javier Solana, EU’s udenrigspolitiske koordinator, og fortæl han at EU skal støtte kravet om, at Marokko skal trække sig ud af Vestsahara. Og at EU ikke skal indgå en handelsaftale med Marokko, der omfatter Vestsahara's resurser.

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Javier Solana, High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union

MOROCCO'S ADVANCED STATUS MUST EXCLUDE WESTERN SAHARA

Dear Mr. Javier Solana,
I herewith wish to formally lodge my condemnation of the Europeans Union’s (EU) intention to grant Advanced Status to Morocco, unless the occupied part of Western Sahara is specifically excluded from the agreement. Granting Advanced Status to Morocco will condone Morocco’s continued illegal occupation of Western Sahara. Furthermore granting this status will be in opposition to more than 100 United Nations (UN) Resolutions, as well as rulings by the International Court of Justice which condemns Morocco’s illegal occupation.

By supporting the application for Advanced Status by Morocco the EU will be supporting an illegal action by a state, while violating the foundation of the UN Charter on Human Rights and the right to self determination. Under international customary law, the EU and its member states have a duty of non-recognition of the Moroccan annexation of Western Sahara, and to support the decolonisation of the territory. It is also a moral obligation, as long as the Sahrawi people suffer either in exile or under severe human rights violations committed by the Moroccan forces in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

Occupation can never be a solution to economic or political ambitions. In this regard we must look to the most recent examples of occupation which have devastated the land, and its people – Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The devastation continues to have lasting effects on generations of Palestinians who defy the Israeli occupation, while Israeli population also suffers its losses.

A lesson can be learnt from this conflict – 1) that occupation of a foreign country is illegal, 2) violating international laws must be severely admonished. Allowing Morocco Advanced Status into the EU would be rewarding this violation of international law .The EU is in a position to place pressure on Morocco to adhere to the UN resolutions, and International Court of Justice rulings and return Western Sahara to its people.

The EU should therefore make sure that Western Sahara is unambiguously excluded from the territorial applicability of the Advanced Status cooperation, without delegating this responsibility to Morocco itself. By following in the path of the many oil and fishing companies such as TGS-Nopec (Norway), Fugro (Holland), Thor Offshore (Denmark), Wessex Exploration (UK), and Total (France) who have disinvested from Western Sahara, the EU will send a clear message to Morocco – that the EU will not support trade in goods and minerals from an illegally annexed region.

I therefore add my voice to growing calls from both the continent of Africa, and around the world to demand that Morocco give back the region of Western Sahara to the Sahrawi people. The EU has a moral and legal obligation to add it voice, and use its diplomatic and economic influence on Morocco.

Sincerely yours

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