Brussels (Belgium), 11 December 2025 (SPS) – In a final communiqué issued following the demonstration organized by the Sahrawi community abroad on 10 December 2025 in front of the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels, Sahrawi and European participants condemned the European Union’s attempt to legitimize the illegal plunder of the natural resources of Western Sahara through the signing of a new trade agreement with Morocco.
The communiqué, which followed the demonstration attended by European political figures, organizations and solidarity associations, expressed the clear position of the Sahrawi people in rejecting the persistence of certain European parties in enabling Morocco to exploit the resources of the occupied part of Western Sahara in a manner that contravenes international law and the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Below is the full text of the communiqué translated into Arabic:
Final Communiqué of the Demonstration Organized by the Sahrawi Community in Europe in Front of the European Parliament – 10 December 2025
We gather today in Brussels to denounce the decisive role played by the European Union in the illegal plunder of the natural resources of Western Sahara.
From the heart of Europe and from within its official institutions, the Sahrawi community in Europe declares its categorical rejection of the signing of the new trade agreement between the European Union and Morocco.
We join our voices with those of individuals and associations in solidarity with the Sahrawi cause to condemn the European Commission’s attempts to bypass the requirement of our consent to any agreement, despite the rulings issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Court has made it unequivocally clear that any agreement applicable to Western Sahara must have the consent of the people of Western Sahara.
Instead of complying with the rulings issued by the Court on 4 October 2024, the Commission negotiated a new agreement with Morocco in a process marked by a lack of transparency and by disregarding the European Parliament, the European public, and of course the people of Western Sahara themselves. Moreover, without any justification, the decision was taken to apply this new agreement provisionally.
Faced with this situation, the Frente POLISARIO, our legitimate representative, has once again been compelled to resort to the European judicial bodies in order to safeguard our rights and ensure their respect.
On 10 December, the International Human Rights Day, we recall that without plunder there would be no occupation. There is no doubt that the illegal plunder carried out by the Moroccan authorities, with the essential cooperation of the European Union, forms the basis of the violations suffered by the Sahrawi people, including forced demographic engineering, labor discrimination and cultural appropriation, constituting, ultimately, a clear obstacle to the exercise of their inalienable right to self-determination and independence.
Through this agreement, the European Union takes yet another step in its effective participation in entrenching the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara by financing infrastructure projects that serve only to reinforce control over the territory. This negatively impacts efforts to resolve the conflict and makes the European Union a direct accomplice in the policy of occupation.
We also draw attention to the serious damage this agreement will inflict on the European agricultural sector, as competition will no longer be merely unfair, but practically impossible.
Despite these circumstances, the people of Western Sahara, the rightful holders of the right to self-determination, will continue resisting the occupation in the territories illegally occupied by Morocco, in the refugee camps, and wherever they may be in the world.
It is time for the European Union to adopt a courageous, firm, and coherent stance in line with a foreign policy grounded in human rights. It is time for the Union to cease allowing international law to be subordinated to economic interests.
Economic development in the territory of Western Sahara is possible and desirable, but it can only take place with the consent of the people of Western Sahara. The sovereignty of the territory is non-negotiable and belongs exclusively to its people. No international agreement can alter this fact or deny the existence of the Sahrawi people and their rights.
Long live free Western Sahara! (SPS)
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