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Two weights, two measures

One of the goals of the UN is to facilitate cooperation in the fields of law and international security, social progress and human rights. A few days ago, we saw how the United Nations and any international diplomacy can be effective in a flagrant violation of the rights of citizens.

Following the presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo has refused to allow the power to Alassane Ouatarra, winner of the elections. That affect the rights in the presence of international observers and the violence that followed resulted in a unanimous condemnation from the international community.

However, the international response is not always so quick in condemning violations of international law or human rights. Almost silent after 35 years of illegal occupation of Morocco in Western Sahara, the same international community, if swift to defend citizens' rights and protect the principles of Human Rights, has not budged yet there is less two months when the Moroccan military forces destroyed a camp violent peaceful Saharawi.

Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon said, two days ago that the maintenance of Laurent Gbagbo to lead a "travesty of democracy."

But what about the Moroccan democracy when protesters were attacked and arrested by armed forces and their property destroyed? What happens to democracy when the missing number in the hundreds and that the evidence of torture of Sahrawi in places of detention by the police are coming every day? Ban Ki-moon is unacceptable that the international observers, journalists and NGOs, are not free to work in Côte d'Ivoire, whereas no time did he talk about the fact that no foreign journalist or a member of NGOs have been allowed to set foot on the soil of Western Sahara. Two weights, two measures?

The European Union and the United States are willing to take economic and diplomatic sanctions against Gbagbo and his family. For cons, the Saharawi question, the Council of Europe is behind the fact that "Western Sahara is outside the geographical scope of the Council of Europe. Consequently, the organization is not directly involved in international efforts to find a solution the conflict in this region. "

For Nicolas Sarkozy," What is happening in Cote d'Ivoire is completely unacceptable. "The French president not only talks about sanctions, but also made this an urgent problem as soon as possible. When Moroccan soldiers attack on Saharawi civilians, the reaction was not as quick and the only action of France was to use its Security Council veto to ensure that an independent fact-finding mission not be fielded for an investigation into the recent events.

Protect Morocco and its king at any price? Yet Nicolas Sarkozy said that "for him to choose what image he wants to leave in history. If he wants to leave the image of a man of peace, there is still time, but time is short. " A sentence should also meditate Laurent Gbagbo that Mohamed 6.

Sometimes people take polls in the eyes of the international community more important than others. Between the presidential elections in Côte d'Ivoire and self-determination referendum for the last colony in Africa, the choice seems to have been made.

APSO, December 18, 2010.