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We regret the rejection of two amendments, which, in compliance with international law, specifically excluded the waters off Western Sahara from the fisheries agreement before us, restricting the Agreement to the waters north of the 27°40' N'' parallel.
An even more worrying aspect of its rejection is the fact that the Commissioners involved and some MEPs consider Morocco to be the
administrator of Western Sahara, a view that runs counter to international law. Furthermore, experience of previous Agreements has shown that ports in Western Sahara have been captured and used without the rights and interests of the Sahrawi people being safeguarded.
I wish to emphasise, as the Polisario Front has done, that the United Nations reiterated condemnation of the exploitation and looting of natural resources and of all economic activity taking place to the detriment of communities in colonised or non-autonomous territories where such people are denied their legitimate rights to their natural resources, in its legal opinion on Western Sahara and its natural resources of 29 January 2002. As far as the UN is concerned, this exploitation and looting is illegal and a threat to the integrity and prosperity of these territories.
Hence our vote against."@en1
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