Melchior Wathelet Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/melchior-wathelet/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Melchior Wathelet Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/melchior-wathelet/ 32 32 Britain told its deals with Morocco including Western Sahara are invalid https://jjcornish.com/2018/01/britain-told-deal-morocco-including-western-sahara-invalid/ Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/01/britain-told-deal-morocco-including-western-sahara-invalid/ Britain’s gone to the European Court to test the validity of its fisheries treaty with Morocco because it includes the illegally occupied Western Sahara. An adviser to Europe’s top court says the deal should be declared invalid because the court has already declared Morocco does not have any legitimate hold on the former Spanish colony. […]

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Britain’s gone to the European Court to test the validity of its fisheries treaty with Morocco because it includes the illegally occupied Western Sahara.

An adviser to Europe’s top court says the deal should be declared invalid because the court has already declared Morocco does not have any legitimate hold on the former Spanish colony.

The United Nations says the Western Sahara has a right to self-determination.

Campaigners are legally contesting the EU’s trade deals with Morocco because they include the desert region.

The European Union Court of Justice’s Advocate General Melchior Wathelet says Britain’s  wrong to uphold the EU-Morocco fisheries deal.

Wathelet maintains the deal does not respect the right of the people of Western Sahara to self-determination.

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