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Statement of WPC in solidarity with WFDY and the Saharawi People

The Secretariat of the WPC

November 1, 2010  


The WPC condemns the deportation of the President of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), Tiago Vieira by the Moroccan authorities after detaining him for 12 hours at the airport of Casablanca on 30th October.

The action to deprive the President of WFDY from entering Morocco and reaching the occupied territories Western Sahara in Laayoune, is clearly politically motivated and related to the principle positions of WFDY in solidarity with the Saharawi people.

It constitutes an act of political aggression and lack of respect to an International anti-imperialist Organization which is preparing this period the 17th World Festival of Youth and Students in December in South Africa.

We denounce the attitude and actions of the Moroccan authorities and the ongoing occupation of Western Sahara, the only occupied African country today. We furthermore condemn the double moral positions of the USA and the EU, which are clearly favouring the occupation for their own geo-strategical imperialist interests.

The WPC expresses its solidarity with the people of Western Sahara for its right to determine freely and democratically its future. We call for an end of the occupation and condemn the authoritarian methods of the Moroccan authorities which are aiming in the intimidation of the International movement for solidarity with the people of Western Sahara as well as against the anti-imperialist forces inside Morocco.