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Bir Lehlou, (liberated territories), 09/02/2007 (SPS) The
Government of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic denounced on
Friday "the decision of the Government of Madrid to rearm the
Moroccan forces", declared the spokesperson of the Saharawi
Government in a written statement of which SPS received a copy.
The Saharawi Republic, on another hand, called on "the Spanish civil
society and all democratic political forces to intervene in
emergency to stop this regrettable operation whose effects on peace
and the stability of the region are unpredictable".
Here is the complete text of this statement:
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Statement by the Spokesperson of the Saharawi Government
The decision of the Government of Madrid, announced this week in
many Medias, to rearm the Moroccan forces reveals the hidden agenda
of the policy that has always been the policy of the current team in
power in Spain relating to the Western Sahara.
The importance and nature of this "deal" as well as the present
situation proves that in opposition to the "impartiality" and "the
constructive position" in favour of a just and peaceful solution of
the conflict of the Western Sahara, often affirmed, the Spanish
Government gets rather implicated in a strategy aiming to comfort
the Moroccan regime in its escalade against the international
legality and to the detriment of the stability in the north-west
Africa.
The military equipment provided, this time, to Morocco (more than
2000 armoured vehicle and of transportation of soldiers) seems to be
intended to satisfy emphasised needs of these troops of occupation
(more than 150 thousands soldiers stationed in the wall) with an
eventuality to resume war in the Western Sahara. By this decision,
Spain, did not only thwarts the efforts deployed by the
international community, it also collaborates in the creation of a
psychological environment of pre-war that is very dangerous for the
efforts of mediation of the UN and for the perspectives of peace and
stability in the region.
To reinforce the offensive capacity of Morocco, is a serious
decision that contradicts the policy of neutrality and of ethics and
the respect of the legality which the Spanish Socialist Government
raises at a moment when Rabat systematically violates human rights
in the occupied zones, and break with the international legality by
denying the Saharawi people’s self-determination and the UN’s plans,
and trying to substitute them by a proposition of autonomy based on
the perversion and the negation of the international Law,
In addition to the fact that it is an insult to the position of
accord of the Spanish public opinion regarding the Western Sahara
and an act which is unfaithful and a betrayal to the Saharawi people
similar to the Madrid’s Accords of 1975, the re-arming by the
Spanish Government of the Moroccan military forces in circumstances
when the good sense demands the preference and strengthening of the
efforts of peace is a regrettable act because of its military and
diplomatic repercussions and will imply the auto-exclusion of Spain
from the group of the countries, friends of the peace process as
well as the disqualification of Madrid from any future mediation in
the conflict.
Subsequently, and in the face of the serious events to come and
which will mark, without doubts any, the beginning of an additional
stage in the interminable tragedy of the Saharawi people that
languishes for the last three decades because of the policy of the
Spanish Government at the time, the Saharawi Government and the
Polisario Front call on the Spanish civil society and all democratic
political forces to intervene in emergency to stop this regrettable
operation whose effects on peace and the stability of the region are
unpredictable.
Bir Lehlou, 09/02/2007". (SPS)
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