Cuba´s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Yusnier Romero. PL Photo.
United Nations, June 14 (RHC)-- Cuba reaffirmed at the United Nations its solidarity with the people of Western Sahara and supported their right to self-determination, for which they fight today.
The island's deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, Yusnier Romero, also expressed his country's commitment to a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution to the conflict in that African region.
All this is following the resolutions of the multilateral organization on granting independence to colonial peoples, the Cuban diplomat said during a session on the Question of Western Sahara.
Romero stressed that the international community must commit itself to implement the resolutions and decisions of the United Nations on this issue.
In addition, he said, Cuba stands in solidarity with the struggle of the Saharawi people to exercise their legitimate rights.
The diplomat referred to the support given by his country to this people. Since 1976 more than two thousand Saharawi students have graduated from higher education in Cuban centers.
He continued that more than 70 young people from that territory are studying in educational centers on the island, while a medical brigade and a brigade of Cuban teachers of basic education teachers are working in the Tindouf camps in southwestern Algeria.
In February 2022, Romero explained, Cuba donated a batch of 458,000 doses of Soberana 02, one of its vaccines against Covid-19, to immunize Saharawi children.
For 58 years, the United Nations Decolonization Committee declared Western Sahara a non-self-governing territory.
Numerous resolutions of the UN General Assembly, the Security Council, and the African Union ratify the right to self-determination of this people.
Western Sahara is one of the 17 Non-Self-Governing Territories under the UN Special Committee on Decolonization supervision. The area is mostly occupied by Morocco, which is rejected by several countries in the world.
In 1976, the Polisario Front proclaimed its independence and established the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, recognized to date by more than 80 states.
For years, Morocco has insisted on a proposal for autonomy for the territory as the only option to end the conflict, while the Polisario Front points to the need to hold a referendum that includes independence among the possibilities.
