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Western Sahara Conflict: Parties
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In her answer, today in the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen ), to Parliament's members (PM) questions during a debate on Western Sahara issue initiated by PM. Alice Åström (Vansterpartiet Party), Mrs. Freivalds stated that "the Swedish government pays special importance to a solution of the conflict according to international law”.
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The ICRC Delegate General for the Middle East and North Africa, who headed last month's mission, met high-ranking officials from the Polisario Front to look into the possibility of settling all humanitarian issues resulting from the Western Sahara conflict. The ICRC remains at the disposal of the two parties to oversee the repatriation as soon as possible of all prisoners held in connection with that conflict.
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Both Morocco and the Polisario accuse each other of violating the human rights of the populations under their control, in the Moroccan-controlled parts of Western Sahara and the Tindouf refugee camps in Algeria, respectively. Morocco and organisations such as France Libertés consider Algeria to be directly responsible for any crimes committed on its territory, and accuse the country of having been directly involved in such violations.[14][13]
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[I]n 1979, the UN General Assembly (Resolution 34/37) deplored what it called Morocco’s occupation of Western Sahara. Furthermore, according to Harvard University’s International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative, ‘The UN has formally agreed that Western Sahara is an occupied territory; therefore all parties would be obligated to follow the mandates of the Geneva Convention IV’.[ii]
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