CopenhagenJul 2025 (SPS) The Danish government refused to support a project in the occupied Western Sahara of the company “Greengo Energy“, specialized in the production of renewable energy, reveals the Danish investigation newspaper “Danwatch“.
Solicited by the CEO of the company Anders Heine Jensen, for advice on its activities in the occupied territory, the Denmark ambassador to Morocco of the time, Jesper Kammersgaard had “explained the Danish position (and that of the European Union) on the conflict and transmitted the parliamentary resolution” on Western Sahara, indicates this newspaper.
“With parliamentary resolution, the ambassador recalls that the Danish Parliament agreed in 2016 that Danish companies should” show particular caution “when they are committed to Western Sahara and ensure that their commercial activities comply with the interests of the local population”, underlines the “Danwatch”.
Last year, Greengo tried without success to conclude a controversial contract with the Moroccan government for a project in occupied Western Sahara.
According to this newspaper, the Danish Foreign Ministry has confirmed in an email that he does not help Danish companies wishing to carry out activities in Western Sahara.
“The Danish Danish Foreign Affairs does not provide advice on commercial activities in Western Sahara, but can, on request, inform companies on the general commitment of Western Sahara. This information will be based on the resolution of the Danish Parliament on the Western Sahara of 2016 (V79), in which the Parliament, unanimously, calls for Danish companies to When they engage in non -autonomous territories like Western Sahara, and to ensure that their commercial activities do not harm the population, “wrote the ministry.
Erik Hagen, a member of the board of directors of Western Sahara Resource Watch (WSRW) and director of the Norwegian initiative, the Western Sahara Support Committee, as such welcomed the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs not to provide advice on commercial activities in Western Sahara.
“At a time when certain European states are showing their support for the occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco, it is encouraging to note that the Denmark Embassy clearly refuses to help the business circles of the territory. It is in the nature of international law that States must refrain from any action that promotes violations of international law, and in this specific case, it appears that the Denmark embassy he said.
In a letter addressed, recently to Greengo Energy, WSRW calls on the latter to “respect ethical standards”, “to adhere to the fundamental principles of transparency” and to “take into account the judgments” of the EU Court of Justice of October 4, 2024 concerning Western Sahara.
The NGO stresses that these judgments reaffirm the fundamental principles of international law applicable to the territory. These judgments, she continues, confirm that “Western Sahara constitutes a territory distinct from that of the kingdom of Morocco” and that the latter “does not exercise any sovereignty or administrative mandate on Western Sahara”.
Consequently, “the waters adjacent to Western Sahara cannot be considered as part of the Moroccan fishing area, territorial waters, the exclusive economic zone, nor of any other notion used to describe the role of Morocco vis-à-vis waters off the Western Sahara,” she added.
WSRW also recalls that these judgments underline that “the people of Western Sahara must be considered as a third party to the agreements concluded by the EU with Morocco and, as such, no agreement can affect its territory without its consent, corollary of the right to self -determination”.
“The Court clearly affirms that the right to consent belongs to the people of Western Sahara, and not to the population of the territory,” she insisted, noting that this court “firmly established the position of the Polisario Front, representative of the people of Western Sahara recognized by the UN, as for its capacity to grasp the courts of the EU in the name of the Sahrawi people, and its right self -determination “. (SPS)
