Geneva (Switzerland), February 23, 2025 (SPS) – The Swiss city of Geneva will host an international seminar on Tuesday focusing on the environment and alternative energy in the context of the Moroccan occupation.
The conference, organized by the Geneva Support Group for Western Sahara on the sidelines of the 58th session of the Human Rights Council, will be facilitated by former UN rapporteurs, diplomats, professors, lawyers, and environmental activists from various countries around the world.
The conference will address the efforts of the occupying state to use the issue of alternative energy in the occupied territories by involving foreign companies in an attempt to legitimize its colonial agenda.
In a statement to the Sahrawi Press Agency (SPS), the representative of the Polisario Front in Switzerland, the United Nations, and international organizations in Geneva, Ambassador Ubi Bashraya Bashir, indicated that this conference is part of the significant efforts made by the Geneva Support Group for Western Sahara to ensure a permanent presence of the Sahrawi cause during the sessions of the UN Human Rights Council.
He added that the conference is being organized in the wake of the historic rulings of the European Court of Justice on October 4, 2024, which marked a turning point in affirming Morocco's lack of rights, as an occupying power, to exploit the natural resources of Western Sahara.
The Sahrawi diplomat further stated that the conference addresses a critical aspect of Morocco's attempts to entrench its economic occupation of Western Sahara by exploiting the noble global cause of "environment and renewable energy" to whitewash its military occupation of the territory. He pointed out that this is being done by implicating major international companies, making it essential to condemn these actions and warn companies against disregarding European and international law in this regard.
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