The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted its report on “The Parliamentary Contribution to resolving the Western Sahara Conflict” at its plenary session held in Strasbourg on 23-27 June 2014.
In its report, the Parliamentary Assembly recalled that the Territory of Western Sahara is currently divided by a wall 2 000 kilometres long and contaminated with anti-personnel mines, which continue to endanger the lives of refugees and nomadic populations as well as United Nations military observers. It also pointed out that, in 2008, a Dangerous Area survey was carried out by the United Nations Mine Action Service, from which it emerged that Western Sahara is one of the most heavily affected territories in the world.
While noting that the Frente POLISARIO signed the Geneva Call for a ban on anti-personnel mines in November 2005, the Assembly called on the Moroccan authorities to “sign the Geneva Call for a Total Ban on Anti-Personnel Mines and accede to the United Nations Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction”.