An excerpt of President Buhari Speech on self-determination
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged Nigeria’s support for
the people of Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic(SADR) on the country’s
right to self determination and independence. The President stated this
when he received the minister of foreign affairs of SADR, Ould Salek at
the State House in Abuja on Friday, March 11.
READ ALSO; President Buhari assured Salek
that outstanding issues on self-determination for the country would be
scrupulously attended to. “The issue first came up when I was in office as
military head of state. After I left government, Nigeria remained steadfast on
it. “In my maiden outing at the UN General Assembly last September, the issue
of Sahrawi was in my speech. You have no cause to doubt our commitment. We
stand with our African Union colleagues on this issue. Nigeria will
maintain focus till everything is finally resolved positively,” the
President stated SOURCE;Vanguard
An Excerpt of Donald Trump Speech on
Self-determination
Britain would be "better off without" the European
Union (EU), says Donald Trump, the presumptive US Republican presidential nominee.
The billionaire businessman told Fox News that he was not making a
“recommendation” but his “feeling” was that the UK should vote to sever ties
with the EU. “I would say [the British]
are better off without [the EU], personally,” he said. “But I'm not making that as a recommendation,
just my feeling.” “I know Great Britain
very well, I know the country very well. I have a lot of investments there,” he
said. SOURCE; Presstv
An excerpt of UN Charter on self-
determination /rights of Indigenous People
And to this end
Declares that:
1. The subjection of peoples to alien subjugation,
domination and exploitation constitutes a denial of fundamental human rights,
is contrary to the Charter of the United Nations and is an impediment to the
promotion of world peace and co-operation.
2. All peoples have the right to self-determination; by
virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely
pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
3. Inadequacy of political, economic, social or educational
preparedness should never serve as a pretext for delaying independence.
4. All armed action or repressive measures of all kinds
directed against dependent peoples shall cease in order to enable them to
exercise peacefully and freely their right to complete independence, and the
integrity of their national territory shall be respected.
5. Immediate steps shall be taken, in Trust and
Non-Self-Governing Territories or all other territories which have not yet
attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those
territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their
freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or
colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom.
6. Any attempt aimed at the partial or total disruption of
the national unity and the territorial integrity of a country is incompatible
with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
7. All States shall observe faithfully and strictly the
provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights and the present Declaration on the basis of equality,
non-interference in the internal affairs of all States, and respect for the
sovereign rights of all peoples and their territorial integrity.
An excerpt from
Wikipedia
The Sahrawi
Arab Democratic Republic (SADR; Arabic: الجمهورية العربية
الصحراوية الديمقراطية al-Jumhūrīyah al-‘Arabīyah aṣ-Ṣaḥrāwīyah
ad-Dīmuqrāṭīyah, Spanish: República Árabe Saharaui Democrática)
is a partially recognized state that
controls a thin strip of area in the Western
Sahara region and claims sovereignty over the entire territory of
Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony.
The
SADR government controls about 20–25% of the territory it claims.[5] It
calls the territories under its control the Liberated Territories or the Free Zone. Morocco controls
and administers the rest of the disputed territory and calls these lands its Southern Provinces. A new 1999 Constitution of the Sahrawi Arab
Democratic Republic took a form similar to theparliamentary constitutions
of many European states, but with some paragraphs suspended until the
achievement of "full independence".
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