"Today, after the renewal by the Security Council mandate MINURSO, the just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution wanted by the UN is the Moroccan autonomy initiative" said Mr. Pinaud, a former diplomat and senior advisor on emerging security challenges program at the GCSP. 

Mr. Pinaud intervened in the framework of an international seminar on "Regional Commissions under the National Council for Human Rights: best practices and challenges", organized by the Permanent Mission of Morocco to the United Nations. Like previous seminars in the Kingdom in Geneva, this seminar aims to highlight the importance of the Moroccan Initiative for Negotiating an Autonomy Statute for the Sahara region, in the light of efforts made by Morocco in terms of economic, socio-cultural, environmental and human aspects in the region. 

Indeed, Mr. Pinaud said in an introductory note on "key aspects of the Moroccan autonomy initiative in its Human Rights dimension," the Moroccan plan proposes a framework for negotiations on all aspects of the autonomy: institutional, political, economic, social, environmental and cultural devoted to the respect of human rights. "

 

He emphasized that this initiative "is part of building a modern democratic society based on the rule of law, individual and collective freedoms and economic and social development" and "guarantees all Saharawi outside and inside their place and their role without discrimination or exclusion in the bodies and institutions of the region. "

As such, it brings the promise of a better future for the peoples of the region, ending the separation and exile, and promoting reconciliation, he said. 

The Saharan populations will themselves run their affairs democratically, through legislative, executive and judicial bodies enjoying exclusive powers and have the financial resources needed to develop the region in all areas and will participate actively in economic, social and cultural life of the Kingdom, he noted. 

  The Statute of Autonomy, said the expert, does not merely intended "to protect and promote fundamental human rights and freedom of the people concerned, but with the necessary resources that are provided to them, these rights and freedoms shall not remain theoretical and should find practical application in the daily life of citizens. "

Indeed, he says, these rights "not only civil and political, but also economic, social, cultural and environmental." Mr Pinaud, this approach is "consistent with the request of the Security Council of the United Nations addressed to the parties to cooperate with the international community" to develop and implement measures to ensure full respect for human rights. 

The president of CNDH, Driss El Yazami, which addressed the National Council for Human Rights and the Regional Commissions on Human Rights, Ms. Renée Dupuis, Vice-President of the Commission on Human rights and Youth Rights (Quebec), Carola Carazzone, Secretary General of the "Italian Association of fundraising foundations and associations" (ASIFERO / Italy), Nabor Carrillo Flores, Executive Secretary of the CNDH, Mexico, Isabel Lamers on behalf of Atty Laisa Alamia Masuhud, Executive Secretary of the Government of the autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (Philippines / ARMM) and former President of the regional Commission of Human Rights (RHRC) of Mindanao and Mary C. Massey, Secretary Executive of the Commission on human Rights and good Governance (CHRAGG) (Zanzibar / Tanzania). 

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