During the week-end of 7-9 December the National Board of the Christian Democrat Youth in Norway passed a resolution demanding recognition of the Western Saharan Republic.
This is the text passed by the national board.
Western Sahara has been unlawfully occupied by Morocco for almost 40 years. Today more than half of the Saharan population lives in refugee camps in Algeria's desert. Christian Democrat Youth (KrFU) of Norway supports the Sahrawi people's right to self-determination and independence and demand that Norway recognize the Western Saharan republic.
Morocco has since 1975 repeatedly refused to comply with the peace plans under the auspices of the UN, the African Union, and more than one hundred Security Council resolutions. The Sahrawi people are entitled to a referendum to decide the country's future, but Morocco refuses to give them that possibility. Western Sahara is Africa's last colony! The conflict has put 165,000 Saharans to flight. Today they live under extremely difficult humanitarian conditions and are completely dependent on international aid.
The Norwegian government has recently changed its rhetoric with regard to the conflict and no longer wants to call Western Sahara occupied. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs now calls the conflict an "unresolved legal situation", even though the UN treats the country like a decolonizing project and defines Western Sahara as occupied.
The KrFU's national board agrees with Jan Egeland, the UN's special adviser for conflict resolution, who has declared that the conflict in Western Sahara is the conflict in the world which most urgently needs to be resolved.
KrFU therefore demands:
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