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(special envoys)
Tifariti (liberated territories),
27/02/2007 (SPS) The celebrations marking the 31st anniversary of
the Saharawi Republic started on Tuesday in Tifariti with the
presence of more than 800 delegates from all continents and
thousands Saharawis who moved from the Saharawi refugee camps and
from the nearby villages.
In the menu of the festivities the organisers programmed military
parades, folkloric parades, expositions and a speech by the
President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz.
The day before an international conference of solidarity with the
Saharawi Republic and people was opened on margin of the festivities
in the same region of Tifariti, the symbol of the Saharawi people’s
struggle against the French and Spanish colonialism and recently
also a symbol of resistance against the Moroccan military invasion.
The participants to the conference expressed their steady support to
the Saharawi cause and denounced the Moroccan repression against the
Saharawi population in the occupied territories of the Western
Sahara.
Underlining that the conflict of the Western Sahara is a
decolonisation problem, all the interventions stressed the need "to
redouble the actions and efforts" with the international community
so as to enable the Saharawi people exercise their inalienable right
to self-determination.
The different speakers unanimously saluted the struggle of the
Saharawi people for 31 years, and estimated that the year 2007,
which was decided to be the year of solidarity with the Saharawi
people, will be decisive for the future of the Saharawi cause if the
intensive activities and mobilisation programmed are taken into
account.
They also denounced "the Moroccan manoeuvres" aiming at dividing the
Saharawi people by a "so-called autonomy", estimating that these
manœuvre "will never defeat a people determined to recover their
independence and continue their struggle until the final victory".
Some participants asked the UN Security Council "to completely
assume" its responsibility through the implementation of the UN’s
resolutions that provide for the exercise by the Saharawi people to
their right to self-determination, estimating that "there ill be no
peace and stability in the region without the complete independence
of the Western Sahara".
The Saharawi Republic, proclaimed in the 27th February 1976 in Bir
Lehlu, is a founding member of the African Union an is recognised by
82 countries world wide. (SPS)
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