Reported Monday representatives of the artist in a statement, it will make your request on the occasion of the annual meetings of the Fourth Committee of the UN, which will also address the filmmaker Alvaro Longoria, with whom Bardem has spent several years shooting a long documentary titled children of the clouds, in which both discussed the conflict in Western Sahara.
Longoria and Bardem intention with this film is to address the problem of the former Spanish colony from a point of seen political and human, and so are seeking expert testimony of France, Spain, United States, Algeria, and the Sahara.
Javier Bardem is spokesperson for the platform everyone with sub-Saharan Africa, calling for a “peaceful and just solution” to the problem of the Sahrawi people, whose territory still has not been recognized by any country as part of Morocco.
This platform, which seeks the recognition by the Spanish State of the diplomatic status of the Frente Polisario, presented last November at the Moncloa Palace a total of 230,000 signatures, including those of artists such as Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz, Joan Manuel Serrat.