Only the survival of the civilian population could allow the Saharan people to exercise their legitimate right to self determination.

The Kingdom of Morocco was trying to create a fait accompli and was thus confirming its unwillingness to end the illegal occupation of the country.

The Kingdom of Morocco was exploiting the mineral wealth of Western Sahara for its own benefit, while the rightful owner of that wealth, the Saharan people as a whole, did not profit from it in any way.

On her visits she had observed an intensification of international migratory pressures and the aggravation of certain problems, such as the illicit transfer of migrants and traffic in human beings.

The international community, and the United Nations and the European Union in particular, must stand firm it could not continue to tolerate the illegal occupation of a Territory and the exploitation of its natural assets.

However, the Saharan people had been prevented from exercising that right by the illegal occupation of the Territory in 1975, which the Government of Spain, the former colonial Power, had facilitated.

In so doing, that company, like the foreign companies holding fishing licences, were accomplices in the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco.

The American Association of Jurists appealed to the Committee to take note of the harsh living conditions of more than 160,000 Saharans living in refugee camps in Tindouf because of the illegal occupation of the Sahara and the passivity of the United Nations, which had not secured its decolonization.