The Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) announced on Friday that it had lodged a complaint with the United Nations concerning the status of Ceuta, Melilla and five islands close to Morocco and under Spanish sovereignty.
In a press release, the NGO announced it had sent a letter to the Chairman of the Fourth Committee in charge of special political questions and decolonization.
In announcing its initiative, the AMDH central office stressed that these territories were “still occupied by the Spanish state.”
The NGO added that it is calling for the inclusion of the question of these lands, for the institution to examine the status of the two enclaves, and that of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the islands of Chafarinas, Perejil, Badis and Nakkor, along the coast of Al Hoceïma in the Mediterranean Sea.
The AMDH pointed out that this step is part of its mobilization calling for “an end to the Spanish colonization of the above-mentioned Moroccan territories,” in accordance with the prerogatives of the dedicated UN commission, notably in terms of “the right to self-determination and sovereignty of peoples over their lands.”
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