All small parties of the Congress of Deputies-with the exception of Union del Pueblo Navarro-finish to record a non-legislative proposal (PNL) joint support for the rights of the Saharawi people. The initiative calls on the Government to promote, from the English EU presidency, the "temporary freeze" of the Statute of Advanced Cooperation with Morocco and "the suspension of the bilateral summit Morocco-European Union, scheduled for early March, while the Alawite kingdom "does not change its current policy of violation of human rights of the Sahrawi people."
The proposal is endorsed by eight small formations expected to be debated in the Lower House plenary session in the coming weeks. The sign the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), the Canarian Coalition (CC), Galician Nationalist Bloc (BNG), Unión, Progreso y Democracia (UPyD), Izquierda Unida (IU), Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds (IC-V) and Nafarroa Bai (NB). In total, eight games, 17 deputies and three parliamentary groups of very different political persuasion, but with a common denominator: "Urge the Government to defend the human rights of the Saharawi people with urgency, as stated yesterday in a joint note.
The proposal has been negotiating for almost a month and began to take shape after the peaceful protest of the human rights activist Haidar, who spent 32 days on hunger strike in November and December 2009 with a very simple request: that the Moroccan state to return her passport and allowed to return home with their children in the Laayoune, the capital of Western Sahara.
Even then, several parties noted that the Government should take the English half to change the position to Morocco and to pressure in order to respect the human rights of the Sahrawi and the resolutions of the United Nations Organization (UNO).
UPyD spokeswoman, Rosa Díez, traveled to Lanzarote to see Haidar, who was in full hunger strike and he then went to Laayoune in hand to bring her two children a personal message from his mother. When he returned to Madrid, he began to prepare the NLP and maintained contacts with all parliamentary groups, including the PSOE and the PP, to discuss it. Other speakers, such as Gaspar Llamazares, UI, have always shown a special sensitivity to the problem of Western Sahara, with small parties that did not cost them too reach agreement on a common text.
Socialists, although they have often defended the autonomy of the Sahara against Morocco, did not consider the proposal acceptable, even after it can be changed with amendments.
The initiative on Thursday says that since 2004, the orientation of the government's foreign policy with Morocco has resulted "in a privileged relationship" Alawite kingdom with Spain and the EU, but "at the expense of international law in the Sahara conflict." In fact, NLP claim that "Morocco continues to develop policies absolutely unacceptable to democratic values \u200b\u200band respect for human rights."
NLP recalls and condemns the "illegal deportation" of Haidar while trying to return to Laayoune from New York, where he had gone to collect a prize. And ask the English government to take "out with the utmost urgency few diplomatic actions, legal and lobbying with the Government of Morocco are necessary to end that Haidar citizen like all the other activists "enjoy" full guarantees for his physical integrity and freedom. "
parliamentary initiative recalled that the October 8, 2009 were arrested in Casablanca Saharawi citizens Tamek, Brahim Dahane, Dgja Lechgar, Rachid Sgahir, Nassiri Hamadi, and Saleh Terruzi Yehdih Loubeihi. Six of them remain incarcerated pending trial [see supplemental information on this page]. Therefore, also requests the English government that will give his full support "for them to recover their freedom in the shortest time possible "
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