By SOUHAIL KARAM | REUTERS
Published: Oct 25, 2011 17:03 Updated: Oct 25, 2011 17:03
RABAT: Spain has asked the United Nations to assess security in refugee camps of Sahrawi in western Algeria, Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez said on Tuesday after two Spanish aid workers were kidnapped there over the weekend.
Speaking in Rabat after talks with Moroccan counterpart Taieb Fassi Fihri, Jimenez told reporters she hopes concerted regional action will help ensure the release of the Spaniards and an Italian who were taken from a camp near Tindouf.
“We have asked the United Nations to send a mission to Algeria to assess the security situation in the camps of Tindouf,” said Jimenez, speaking through a translator.
