Prensa Latina News Agency - Ibero-America to Speak up On Western Sahara Conflict

Madrid, Nov 16 (Prensa Latina) A delegation of the Polisario Front issued at the 22nd Ibero-American Summit a new call to help settle the Western Sahara conflict.

At ongoing Summit in Cadiz, Spain, the organization reminds that many of the guest countries recognize the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and support its peopleâ�Ös fight for self-determination.

Being the only Arab nation in northern Africa to speak Spanish, this has helped Western Sahara to tighten relations between the Saharawi people and Ibero-American nations, stressed the text.

These ties were reinforced with the public support from many of those countries, especially at the UN.

That is why, says the document, the delegation calls on the heads of state and government to issue a new call to the international community to help settle the Western Sahara conflict.

We hope it will serve as vehicle to further tighten the relations between Spanish-speaking communities and the Arab world, Africa and Latin America, concludes the petition.

The Polisario Front, created in 1973, is the national liberation movement of the Western Sahara that fights to end the occupation of Morocco.

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