The president of the Spanish State Federation of Institutions in Solidarity with the Sahara (FEDISSAH), Carmelo Ramírez said in a statement to the press today that the solution to the problem surrounding the Saharawi human rights activist Aminatou Haidar, on hunger strike in Tenerife for the past three weeks, was not to force her to eat, but to help her go back to her homeland.

Ramírez (pictured) told the press that Haidar is physically very weak and that although the doctors have said that she is not in any immediate danger, her situation could change very dramatically from one day to the next, and that every day that she is without food means she risks collapsing at any time.

From the psychological point of view, Aminatou Haidar is in full control of what she is doing and has made that clear to the president of FEDISSAH today.

Ramírez underlined the urgency with which a solution needs to be found so that Haidar can go back to Western Sahara to continue living with her family. 

The solution, according to Ramirez, is to tackle the "root" of the problem, which is the unlawful deportation of Haidar by the Moroccan authorities and to get the two governments that caused the problem to solve it between them.

Ramírez described Spain's offer of political asylum and Spanish nationality to Saharan activist as "embarrassing" saying that "she had never requested either and that all she wanted was the right to return home to live with her family in the Sahara".

Ramírez also said that it was a disgrace that Morocco should be allowed to continue negotiating a special relationship with the EU under the current circumstances and demanded that all negotiations be suspended until this crisis had been solved.