The SMP deplores the loss of human lives in new acts of war in Western Sahara

In a letter addressed to Mr Staffan de Mistura, Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, the first secretary of the Saharawi Movement for Peace (SMP), Hach Ahmed, deplored the death of several people in a military action yesterday in the region of Un Dreiga, southern Western Sahara. 

"It is extremely worrying that these events continue to take place in a territory where there is theoretically a ceasefire decreed by the highest international body and even more so after the visit that you have just made as Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General with the mission to resume the political process suspended in Geneva in May 2019," he said in the letter. 

After again urging the UN envoy to intensify efforts to "ensure, first and foremost, that the ceasefire is respected again and that the bloodshed is stopped", the first secretary of the SMP referred to the misfortune of one of the families affected by yesterday's event, indicating that their "son is the third and last one to lose in this war". 

"Reiterating our support for his efforts, we wish him luck and success in his mission, which is not an easy one. For the lives and destiny of many Saharawis depend on it", the letter concluded.