Maghreb Arabe Presse (MAP) - Morocco has requested the input of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) to change the status quo in the Polisario-run Tindouf camps.The remarks were given Friday by Foreign Minister, Taib Fassi Fihri at a joint press conference with the high commissioner for refugees, Antonio Guterres, on a visit in the north African country.
"We need the UNHCR, not only to carry out the humanitarian mandate of the agency, but also to help us find a lasting solution" to the situation in the Tindouf camps, Fassi Fihri told reporters.
The Algerian-backed Polisario separatists have been holding thousands of Moroccan civilians in the desert Tindouf camps on the Algerian soil for over three decades now.
The FM said the real situation in the camps is not know by anyone. He denounced the human rights breaches in the territory, and the impossibility for the people held there to leave and join Morocco, their homeland.
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