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The am­bas­sador to the Caribbean for the dis­put­ed ter­ri­to­ry of West­ern Sa­hara is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment, and the wider Caribbean, to sup­port the Sahrawi peo­ple’s right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion.

Am­bas­sador Mo­hammed Zroug made the com­ment dur­ing a me­dia con­fer­ence, along­side po­lit­i­cal leader of the Move­ment for So­cial Jus­tice and long-time trade union ac­tivist David Ab­du­lah, at the OW­TU’s Port-of-Spain of­fice on Fri­day.

Speak­ing on be­half of the Sahrawi gov­ern­ment, Zroug de­scribed West­ern Sa­hara as “the last colony in Africa” and stressed that the Sahrawi peo­ple must be al­lowed to ex­er­cise their right to self-de­ter­mi­na­tion freely and de­mo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly through a ref­er­en­dum, in line with in­ter­na­tion­al law and UN res­o­lu­tions. He not­ed that the UN Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil has en­dorsed a ref­er­en­dum since 1981, re­main­ing the pri­ma­ry mech­a­nism to guar­an­tee a peace­ful and law­ful path for­ward.