The remains of Txomin Aurekoetxea are already in the areas released from Sahara

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The PNV politician emphasized his help to the Saharawi people and, after death in September, fulfilled his desire to “rest in one of the two home countries he felt in his heart.”

The remains of Txomin Aurrekoetxea (1943-2024), Historical militant and parliamentary of the PNV for two decades, is already released in the areas from Sahara. The chosen place “meets the request that the politician has put in”, but the conflict situation in the West -Saharan “prevents the procedure and location from becoming known”, as his family reported in a note.

Aurrekoetxea had and maintained a great link with the Saharaawi -People. In 1985 he paid his first solidarity visit to the Tindouf refugee camps and has since visited the Democratic Saharaawi Arabic Republic more than 20 times.

From his career, the note emphasizes that it was the promoter of the Basque municipalities of Twinning With the Saharaawi people, he foreseed the parliamentary intergroups in favor of the Saharaawi people since 1994, coordinated the solidarity institutions at state level and participated in plenary sessions of the Special Policy Committee and decolonization of the United Nations in New York.

Source: EITB

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