Algeria’s Announcement calls on UN to reactivate defence of occupied people

Participants in a conference held in Algeria to commemorate UN Resolution 1514 about people’s independence called for reactivating texts and international laws about self-determination.

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  Participants held the UN and their institutions responsible for the sufferance of people who are still colonized. They criticized its decline their support to fair causes and its non seriousness in working for reactivating Resolution 1514 issued on December 14^th, 1960. It grants independence to colonized countries and people.  

  According to the ‘Algeria’s Announcement’ communiqué, a large group of former colonized countries recovered their independence. Nowadays, they hold their seats as sovereign member countries in the UN. 
  

  Participants believe that the resolution was not efficiently implemented as it happened in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

  The communiqué said colonization with all its forms and aspects is in opposition with the UN charter’s goals and the international law.

  It stressed the validity of the announcement of granting independence to colonized countries and people. “The continuous elimination of colonization is inevitable.”

  “No pretext about territory area, its geographical localisation or the rate of its population would deprive colonized people of free practice of their right in self-determination and independence.”
  

  Rabat approved the self-determination principle through a referendum sponsored by the US. Yet, it changed its mind as it had realised that Sahrawi people would not accept other solutions than independence. King Mohamed the Sixth came with the autonomy which was rejected by the Polisario Front.

  Algeria’s Announcement stressed the necessity of reactivating other resolutions coming from Resolution 1514. Of them, there is Resolution 1803 about Permanent sovereignty over natural resources and Resolution 3821 about the Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of Sates. 
  

  Participants called for reactivating south-south cooperation in order to find dynamism in the international level and make a balance in the international system.