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Algiers, 13/12/2006 (SPS) The Algerian President, Abdelaziz
Bouteflika, wished, on Tuesday in Algiers, to see Spain engaged "in
a more resolute way" to compel Morocco and Polisario Front accept
and establish the conditions for a self-determination referendum
enabling the expression of the Saharawi people’s will.
"We hope that Spain engage in a more resolute way to compel Morocco
and Polisario Front accept and establish the conditions to a free
and regular self-determination referendum that would enable the
expression of the sovereign will of the people of the Western
Sahara, conforming to the international legality", Mr. Bouteflika
stressed, during a luncheon he offered in the Palace of the People
in Algiers on the honour of the Head of the Spanish Government, José
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who was undertaking a work visit to
Algeria.
"Spain can not stay indifferent to the current fate of the Saharawi
people, whom you were colonising from 1885 to 1975", Bouteflika
underlined.
In a statement ending the visit of the Head of the Spanish
Government to Algiers, the two parties reaffirmed their "attachment
to a just and definitive solution to the conflict of the Western
Sahara within the framework of the UN’s pertinent resolutions,
especially the UN’s Security Council’s resolutions 1495 and 1541
that backs the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 131007 DEC 06 SPS
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