In its resolution 2 D (XXIX), entitled “Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms”, the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities requested “the parties concerned to use all means to ensure to the refugee population of ‘Western Sahara’ the effective enjoyment or human rights”.
Recalling certain Security Council resolutions on the question, the Sub-Commission called upon “all parties interested and concerned to adhere to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international instruments in the field of human rights, and the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council, and to work towards the full restoration of human rights to the population of the Territory of Western Sahara””.
Before giving the information requested by that resolution, the Kingdom of Morocco wishes to put forward a preliminary consideration which largely conditions its response; this relates to the applicability to the particular case of the definition of the concept of “minority” which seems to be the partial basis for the Sub-Commission’s competence.
In the light and on the basis of that classification, the Kingdom of Morocco will endeavour to show in what follows that, if the rights of certain Moroccan nationals who are natives of the Sahara formerly under Spanish domination are being violated, that violation is attributable to a foreign country which, ever since the territory of the Sahara entered the final phase of decolonization, has stubbornly and maliciously opposed all initiatives of the Kingdom of Morocco to bring about a final peaceful settlement, in accordance with the rules of international humanitarian law and international law, of a situation which has at all times been imposed on it. It will be for international humanitarian organizations after having obtained a clear idea of the development. It of the situation, to assist the Kingdom of Morocco
