US Congressmen: “the United States doesn’t recognize Morocco's so-called sovereignty over Western Sahara”

A host of US congressmen have declared in Washington that their country doesn’t recognize Morocco’s alleged sovereignty over occupied Western Sahara.

The commission for human rights at the US Congress considered Western Sahara as a non-autonomous territory, pending its much-awaited decolonization in line with the relevant UN resolutions and international legality.

Taking the floor before politicians and international NGO’s in the US Federal capital on Wednesday, democrat Congressman, John Conyers, said that the US Administration had to be clear regarding its official position in favor of the decolonization of Western Sahara.

Concurrently, the representative of the state of Massachusetts, Senator Mc Govern argued that Western Sahara is the last colony in Africa which is still waiting for its self-determination.

Meanwhile, in a separate development, a Mauritanian political party, the People’s Progressive Alliance (APP) reiterated, Wednesday, its support for the Sahrawi people’s legitimate right to self-determination and independence.

This position was reiterated during a meeting with the president of the party, Messaoud Ould Boulkhair with a visiting  a delegation of the Polisario Front led by Bashir Mustapha Sayad, member of the national secretariat, minister of State, Advisor to the Presidency of the Sahrawi Republic, and special envoy of Sahrawi president, Mohamed Abdelaziz, who is paying a visit to Mauritania.

Mr Bashir Mustapha Sayad made a presentation on the latest developments of the Western Sahara issue and the longstanding relations between the APP party and the Polisario Front.

This meeting “was part of a series of encounters between the Sahrawi delegation and the leaders of the Mauritanian political parties in Nouakchott,” according to Mauritanian sources.

The Sahrawi delegation also  held discussions, Monday, with the Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdelaziz.

The Sahrawi minister’s meetings with Mauritanian officials took place as part of an international diplomatic escalation concerning the Western Sahara issue, following the latest tour of the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon which led him to Mauritania, Algeria and to the Sahrawi refugee camps.