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We cannot ask the international community to continue to fund camps without knowing the occupants, without considering differentiated needs

Morocco intends to take part in the briefing of donors the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has convened for the populations sequestered in Tindouf camps, said Friday's UN Ambassador, Representative Standing of Morocco to the UN Omar Hilale.


"We will participate in it," he told the press, following the adoption by Security Council of Resolution 2285 extending for one year MINURSO mandate until April 30, 2017 indicating that UNHCR plans to organize in Geneva a donor briefing.

Moroccan participation is justified first by the fact that these are "Moroccans sequestered in Tindouf camps," said Hilale, adding that this is "because we voluntarily contribute to UNHCR's budget up to one million dollars per year. "

The briefing in Geneva also offers the opportunity to clearly evoke the census question of the sequestered people in Tindouf, which is an "imperative", said Hilale because "we cannot ask the community international continue to fund camps without knowing who's there, and taking into account the needs are differentiated in terms of gender and age. "

It should also ask the question of accounting, said the Moroccan diplomat, adding, in this regard, the European Parliament adopted in April 2015 a resolution demanding that the accounts are required of all those who have diverted funds  among the leaders of the Algerian red Crescent and among officials of the Polisario ".

The resolution of the European Parliament, following the report of the anti-fraud office of the European Union (OLAF), World Food Programme and UNHCR asked that those responsible be held accountable, said Hilale, lamenting that this request was simply ignored by the Algerian authorities.

Hilale, also noted that the Security Council called for the fifth time in its resolution adopted on Friday to carry out census of the population in Tindouf camps.

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