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Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), 05/02/2007 (SPS) The
Saharawi Government estimated, on Monday in a written statement by
its spokesperson of which SPS received a copy, that the role of
France should have urged the parties to the conflict n the Western
Sahara, Morocco and Polisario Front, to respect and implement the
UN’s resolutions instead of supporting Rabat in its unilateral and
dangerous projects in the Western Sahara.
"The role worth of a great country such as France is to encourage
the parties to conform to the legality and the law, to help in the
establishment of a just peace based on the respect of the United
Nations resolutions instead of encouraging unilateral, usurpatory,
illicit and dangerous initiatives such as the project announced by
Morocco", the statement underlined in response to an information
published on Monday by the French Press Agency, AFP, according to
which President Jacques Chirac, has qualified a Moroccan plan of
autonomy for the Western Sahara as "constructive".
Here is the complete text of the statement received by SPS:
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05 FEBRUARY 2007
Statement of the Spokesperson of the Government of the Saharawi Arab
Democratic Republic.
According to a dispatch published on the 05th of February 2007 by
the Agence France Presse, President Chirac, who was receiving a
Moroccan delegation in Paris, has apparently "qualified as
constructive the Moroccan plan for the Western Sahara".
The fact that a Chirac, who consider himself as «a member of the
Moroccan royal family» promotes a project of which he is the creator
is not surprising. But the fact that the President of France, the
member of the UN Security Council, openly turns his back to the
international legality and encourages the rebellion and
insubordination against the resolutions of the UN’s Security Council
and General Assembly, which recognise to the Saharawi people their
right to self-determination, is a serious and irresponsible
attitude.
Chirac can not ignore that the question of the Western Sahara is a
decolonisation issue and that the determination of the final status of the Saharawi
territory is the prerogative of its people only. Thus there is no
other alternative to the referendum. The Moroccan unilateral project
of "autonomy" is illegal and unacceptable because it prejudges the
will of the Saharawi people by limiting, from the beginning, their
choices to a single one. It is thus a born-dead project, null and
void.
The role worth of a great country such as France is to encourage the
parties to conform to the legality and the law, to help in the
establishment of a just peace based on the respect of the United
Nations resolutions instead of encouraging unilateral, usurpatory,
illicit and dangerous initiatives such as the project announced by
Morocco.
This is why we call on France to make use of its influence to compel
Morocco adopting the path of wisdom via accepting to cooperate for
the implementation of the Settlement plan consecrated by the United
Nations. It is in the interest of everybody." (SPS)
060/090/100/TRD 051912 Feb 06 SPS
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