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The 2006-2010/2011 EU-Morocco fisheries partnership agreement.
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Legal opinions
In a juridical opinion dated 29 January 2002, UN under-secretary General for Legal Affairs, Hans Corell, provided an overview of international law applicable to mineral resource extraction in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. Read it here. At a conference in South Africa in 2008, Hans Corell gave an address with his opinions on the text, and how it has been interpreted after 2002. Read that opinion here.

Studies and analyses
Enrico Milano, Spanish jurist "The new Fisheries Partnership Agreement between the European Community and the Kingdom of Morocco: fishing too south?"
Published in Anuario de Derecho Internacional, vol. XXII (2006).
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Carlos Ruiz Miguel, Spanish jurist, "Is the EU-Moroccan fisheries agreement an attempt by Spain to legalise the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara?", Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos, March 7, 2006.
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Jeffrey Smith, Canadian barrister, made the following analysis: "The maritime jurisdiction of Western Sahara and the duty of states to preserve Saharan fisheries resources pending self-determination". Read it here.

The Nordic Institute for Africa (Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) has a brochure titled "The Western Sahara Conflict - The Role of Natural Resources in Decolonization", redaction by Claes Olsson. It can be ordered through the Institute or read it here for free.

For an outline of the oil exploration activities in occupied Western Sahara, we recommend Raphaël Fišera's dissertation at the Deusto University of Bilbao. Read it here.

Daniela Hinze's 2003 master thesis at the Freie Universität of Berlin considers the impact of economical interests on the political process towards self-determination in Western Sahara: "Der Westsahara-Konflikt –Die Bedeutung von wirtschaftlichen Interessen sowie politischen Entscheidungen für das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der Sahrauis und den Friedensprozess". Read it here.

Book
"International Law and the Question of Western Sahara" (ed. Arts & Leite)
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The EU considers to pay Morocco to fish in occupied Western Sahara. An EU-Morocco Fisheries Agreement from 2013 would be both politically controversial and in violation of international law. The international Fish Elsewhere! campaign demands the EU to avoid such unethical operations, and go fishing somewhere else. No fishing in Western Sahara should take place until the conflict is solved.
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يحضر الاتحاد الاوربي لإبرام اتفاق غير اخلاقي جديد للصيد البحري مع المغرب في سنة 2013.

مرة اخرى، يعتزم الاتحاد الاوربي الصيد في المياه الاقليمية للصحراء الغربية المحتلة في خرق سافر للقانون الدولي. وقع هذه العريضة للتنديد بذلك.

"EU fisheries in Western Sahara must be stopped"




Western Sahara human rights activist Aminatou Haidar hopes for increased attention to the EU plundering of occupied Western Sahara.

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Human rights activist Malak Amidane denounces EU fisheries