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19/12/2009 12:00 (UTC)

SPAIN - MOROCCO

MADRID (SPAIN), 19/12/09.- Moroccan ambassador in Spain Omar Azziman offers a press conference to talk about Saharan activist Aminetu Haidar after she returned to her home in Western Sahara, Morocco, at his official residence in Madrid, Spain, 19 December 2009. Aminetu Haidar was thrown out of Morocco, 14 November 2009, after she wrote her nationality was Saharan on a form at the airport of El Aaiun. She was flown to Lanzarote's airport in Spain where she started a hunger strike in order to press Moroccan Authoroties to let her back in her country. Finally she was flown back to El Aaiun 17 December 2009 after Spain received diplomatic help from United States, France, the European Union and the United Nations. Now protesters claim a solution for the Saharawi people who want the independence of their territory from Morocco. EFE/Victor Lerena

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