This is not a new or unique position for my country. Because it did the same thing for twenty-five years in East Timor as it allowed its handpicked dictator of Indonesia to run over the rights of the East Timorese people. Justice delayed is justice denied. And the Sahrawi people will not stand idly by and allow this injustice to persist. Just as the East Timorese have won their country back, so too will the people of the Sahrawi Republic.
Time is on their side.
And we don't make friends around the world by being on the wrong side of justice and human rights. In November, the people of this country will decide who will lead it for the next four years. The people of Western Sahara should be given the same opportunity. It is wrong for the international community to choose the Sahrawi leaders. The policy of our country should support the free expression of a people deciding on their future.