Western Sahara: Morocco

(asked on 15th April 2021) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make representations to the UN Security Council to send a fact finding mission to investigate the human rights of Saharawis in the (a) occupied territory and (b) prisons in Morocco.


Answered by
James Cleverly Portrait
James Cleverly
Home Secretary
This question was answered on 20th April 2021

Human rights is a UK priority. We have consistently supported language in the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions which encourages the parties to continue their efforts to enhance the promotion and protection of human rights in Western Sahara and in the Tindouf camps. We have discussions with Morocco on human rights and prison conditions. The UK regards the status of Western Sahara as undetermined.

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