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TO UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL

TO THE PRESIDENT OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

TO THE ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER

TO REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS

TO PRESIDENTS OF METROPOLITAN AREAS

TO MAYORS

TO ALL ASSOCIATIONS THAT WORK IN SOLIDARITY 'AND IN THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

La Guera, Refugee Camps, March 31st 2016

We are volunteers and aid workers from different associations, organizations and nationalities visiting the Sahrawi refugee camps in the Algerian desert.

After so many years of activity in the defense of self-determination and independence of the Saharawi people and in fundraising for humanitarian purposes in their favor, we have seen the possibility of a return to arms.

Many of them are young people who, tired of not seeing and not having chances for their future, in the absence of response from the international diplomacy, push forward so that the Saharawi Republic will consider concluded the dialogue for the implementation of the referendum.

The actions undertaken by Morocco during the visit of UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon, such as: detention for crimes of opinion, arbitrary killing in the liberated territory, the expulsion of civil and administrative component of the UN mission “MINURSO” from the occupied territories, the increase number of troops along the wall, are causing escalations which, if not arrested, will make the return of conflict very likely.

Therefore we consider essential that the Security Council after the statements from its Secretary of March the First, will bring in the upcoming days practical solutions for the implementation of the referendum as well as the agreements of peace of 1991.

It is necessary to prevent the tragic consequences for the people of the entire region  and to avoid the creation a further outbreak in the Mediterranean which is being already heavily affected by the current crisis, wars and terrorism.

Therefore we ask:

1) Respect for the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people through a referendum to be held in the current year

2) The procedure for obtaining the return of the “MINURSO” mission with all its components in the occupied territories and the extension of its mandate to monitor the respect of  human rights, that are constantly violated as frequently noted by Amnesty International dossier and R.Kennedy Foundation.

3) The release of the thirteen Saharawi prisoners of Gdem Izik on hunger strike for the rights denied to all the Saharawi political prisoners. First people who signed:

Nadia Conti,  Massimiliano Caligara, Francesca Materozzi, Paolo Mazzinghi,  Eugenio Mastrogiacomo,  Giovanni Militello, Elena Bonvissuto, Grazia Pinna, Matteo Corona,  Franco Naldi, Barbara Stivanello

Signatories in support of this Call:

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