Western Sahara: Trade Agreements

(asked on 1st March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 17 February 2021 to Question 151798, on Western Sahara: Trade Agreements, if he will ask the European Commission for what reason the (a) UN recognised representatives of the Saharawi people, the Polisario Front, were not formally consulted and (b) consent of those representatives was not sought.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 9th March 2021

The European Commission's report, which includes the list of stakeholders consulted, including the Polisario Front, can be found here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=SWD:2018:346:FIN&from=FR(opens%20in%20a%20new%20tab)

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