Dear Mr .....

Re: Referendum for Western Sahara

We write on behalf of the Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA), seeking your support for urgent action by the United Nations for self-determination for Western Sahara. Since 1991, Western Sahara and Morocco have respected the United Nations brokered cease-fire, pending a referendum for self-determination. However, with over a 160,000 Saharawis forced to live in refugee camps in the Algerian desert, and with reported human rights abuses by Morocco, the situation deteriorates.

AWSA wishes to express its dissatisfaction with the failure of the United Nations to fulfil its resolution on Western Sahara, and calls on the United Nations to implement the Peace Plan and Houston Agreements for Western Sahara without further delay. By not implementing the peace plan, the United Nations has:

• inhumanely prolonged the situation of the refugees and wasted ten years;
• allowed the military occupation and economic exploitation of Western Sahara by Morocco; and
• failed to protect the Saharawi population under Moroccan occupation.

The United Nations should act to restore its credibility in the eyes of people affected by its failure to implement the provisions for a fair referendum on self-determination. The suffering of the Saharawi both in the refugee camps and the occupied territory continues.

We thank you for your attention to this urgent matter and look forward to receiving your response.

Yours sincerely

 

 

To be sent to:

Mr KOFI ANNAN
UN Secretary-General
United Nations, S-378
New York NY 10017 &endash; USA
Fax: 00 1212 963 4879 00 1212 963 3024

Ambassador James Baker, SG Personal envoy
email: theofilopoulou@un.org

Mr THABO MBEKI
PRESIDENT EN EXERCICE DE L'UNION AFRICAINE
email: president@po.gov.za
Fax : 0027 12 323 8246

PRESIDENT OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL
S.E ROCHEREAU DE LA SABLIERE
Ambassadeur
Représentant permanent de la France
auprès des Nations Unies
Siège des Nations Unies
United Nations, S-378
New York NY 10017-USA
Fax: 00 1212 745 9334
email: france@un.int

Membres of the Security Council:

	e-mail	tel	fax
USA	usa@un.int	212-415 4000	212-415 4443
UK	uk@un.int	212-745 9200	212-745 9316
China	chinamission_un@fmprc.gov.cn	212-655 6100	212-634 7626
Russian Federation	Rusun@un.int	212-861 4900/01	212-628 0252

Mexico	mexicoun@aol.com	212-752 0220	212-688 8862
Bulgaria	bulgaria@un.int	212-737 4790 /4791	212-472 9865
Cameroon	info@cameroonmission.org	212 794 2295/96	212-249 0533
Guinea	missionofguinea@aol.com	212-6878115	212-786 8248
Syria	syria@un.int	212-661 1313	212-983 4439
Germany	contact@germany-un.org	212- 940-0400	212- 940 0402
Angola	ang-un@angolamissionun.org	212 861-5656	212- 861 9295
Chile	chile@un.int	212 832-3323	212- 832 8714/ 212 832 0236
Spain	spain@spainun.org	212-661-1050	212- 949 7247
Pakistan	pakistan@un.int	212-879-8600	212 -744 7348

The Permanent Representative of your country to the United Nations.

Adresses of all the permanent missions to the UN: http://www.un.int/index-en/webs.html

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