Indlæg fra konference om Vest-Sahara

Skrevet 17 Februar 2009

Nedenfor finder du indlæg og taler fra en konference i Sydafrika om Vest-Sahara, afholdt af det sydafrikanske udenrigsministerium, den 4. og 5. december 2008.

The Role and Responsibility of the International Community in support of a resolution for the conflict of Western Sahara, Senator Pierre Galand, President of the European Coordination of Committees in Support of Western Sahara – EUCOCO

Laws of Occupation, Prof. Christina Chinkin, Professor of International Law, London School of Economics, UK

STATEMENT by Mr Francesco M. Bastagli, Former Special Representative of the Secretary-General  for Western Sahara

Spain's Legal Obligations as Administering Power of Western Sahara , Carlos Ruiz Miguel, Professor of Constitutional Law University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

The role of natural resources in the Western Sahara conflict, and the interests involved, Erik Hagen, journalist from Norway

The International Legality of Western Sahara issue: the objective and inalienable solution of referendum, Prof. Dr. Smail Debeche, Faculty of Political Sciences and Information, University of Algiers

Western Sahara – from Refusal to Assertion, Toby Shelley, Journalist and writer, Hitchin, UK

The United Nations and Western Sahara, Frank Ruddy, U.S. Ambassador (ret.)

Western Sahara: The ‘Question’ of Sovereignty, Jacob Mundy, PhD Candidate, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter 
Opening remarks by Prof Calie Pistorius Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Pretoria

Aminatou Haidar’s intervention

Self-determination, decolonisation and human rights with reference to the Western Sahara by Professor Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco

Summary and Main Conclusions by Ambassador Ebrahim Saley Chief Director: North Africa [+ full address]

SPEECH by Juan Soroeta Liceras, Public International Law Professor Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

‘Geopolitics and Realpolitik as impediments to the Saharawi’s Right to Self-determination’ speech by Adv Z. L. Madasa from the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs

The legality of exploring and exploiting natural resources in Western Sahara. Address by Ambassador Hans Corell

The Legal Claim of the Sahrawi People to the Right to Self-Determination and Decolonisation by Sidi M. Omar Member of the POLISARIO Front Negotiating Team

Address by Deputy Minister Sue van der Merwe on Multilateralism and the Respect for International Law as Strategic Objectives of South Africa’s Foreign Policy , Thursday 4 December 2008.

“Western Sahara: from stalemate to statehood” by  Mhamed Khadad, MINURSO

Conference Communiqué, Republic of South Africa Department Foreign Affairs + University of Pretoria, 05.12.08

Announcement- Informations

Media - Comments

Ex- UN Legal Counsel Corell declares EU-Morocco Fisheries Partnership Agreement (FPA) illegal. WSRW Press Release, 09.12.08

Law conference urges companies to stay out of Western Sahara WSRW Press Release, 05.12.08

EU-Moroccan deal "illegal"; UN expert , Afrol news, 09.12.08