Rabat – The Moroccan government has dismissed, Tuesday, as “biased” the “report on the preliminary observations” released by the Kennedy Foundation after a visit to the southern provinces of the Kingdom and in the Tindouf camps.
Communication Minister, Government Spokesman, Mustapha el Khalfi told MAP that the government “notes the hasty publication of the preliminary observations, drafted by the Kennedy Foundation about its mission carried out in the southern provinces of the Kingdom and in the Tindouf camps, Algeria, to take stock of the situation of human rights.”
The government stresses that the Foundation has shown a biased attitude that lacks neutrality in dealing with this artificial conflict over the Sahara, noting that the report includes accusations, some of which are groundless while others are based on information lacking in substance.
Describing the report as “unbalanced”, el Khalfi noted that the text ignores the deplorable situation of Human Rights in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps.
The report prepared by the foundation is “unfair, selective and simplistic” on the issue of human rights, since it “does not take into account Morocco’s efforts in this regard, although it hailed in this area the last revision of the Constitution, and the setting up of the the National Council for Human Rights (CNDH),” (formerly, the Advisory council on human rights).
On this basis, says el Khalfi, “the report on preliminary observations of this mission is not likely to contribute to the efforts aiming to reach a permanent and consensual political solution to this long-lasting conflict,” noting that the Moroccan government will prepare a “detailed and comprehensive response” to the contents of this report.
The government will continue its efforts for the expansion of freedoms and the consecration of human rights at the national level, he said.
