Saturday, 7 May 2016

The Perspective; Right of Indigenous People knows no boundary

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 (SADRArabicالجمهورية العربية الصحراوية الديمقراطية‎ al-Jumhūrīyah al-‘Arabīyah aṣ-Ṣaḥrāwīyah ad-DīmuqrāṭīyahSpanishRepública 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 ZoneMorocco 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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