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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He tells the Pan African Parliament in Midrand it is a shame that decades after Africa has beaten off colonialism, racism and apartheid one of its countries should continue to suffer at the hands of a continental neighbour.

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Joaquim Chiassano is the African Union’ special envoy on Western Sahara.

Speaking to the continental parliament has says UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon was accurate in describing  Morocco’s 40-year occupation of the former Spanish colony.This has been UN language for decades.

He says a referendum giving the Saharwi the right to determine their future is the only solution to this imbroglio.

Morocco has itself agreed to this , says Chissano, but has reneged on its undertaking for fear of getting an answer it does not want to hear.

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