This report that Morocco has described as "biased" and "lenient" to Algeria and the Polisario Front, was handed a few days ago to Moroccan authorities by UNHCHR.
In a letter handed to the High Commissioner on Human Rights, Louise Arbour, Moroccan minister of Foreign Affairs and Co-operation, Mohamed Benaïssa, said that her country "does not agree with the content of the report because of its approach which is obviously kind to Algeria and the Polisario".
Morocco and the Polisario Front have been fighting since 1975 over the independence of Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony.
Benaïssa was quoted by the press as saying "this report, which is widely asymmetric, focuses mainly on the right to self-determination, while being blind to the use of political, economic and cultural rights".
He specified that the alleged violations of human rights in Western Sahara "are absolutely erroneous whereas no checking efforts were made regarding the alleged violations in Tindouf camps (south-west of Algeria)".
He called on UNHCHR to take all necessary measures for this report to be restored to its "imperative unbiased and balanced principles".
This article was originally published in Angola Press
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