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Algiers, 28/02/2007 (SPS) The spokesperson of the Algerian
Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a statement on the last developments
regarding the Western Sahara. Here is the complete text of the
statement spread by the Algerian Press Service:
"The last developments in the question of the Western Sahara require
from Algeria the following statements:
Algeria has constantly and clearly marked its support to a solution
based on the satisfaction of the Saharawi people’s inalienable right
to self-determination.
This position follows the United Nations’ Charter and the Security
Council’s resolutions. The United Nations affirmed and reaffirmed
that the question of the Western Sahara is a decolonisation question
that will only find a just and definitive solution through the
exercise by the Saharawi people of its imprescriptible right to
self-determination
The only difference is that in the opposite to the other case of
decolonisation resolved within the framework of the UN the case of
Western Sahara, the last colony in Africa, remains in suspense.
This management was especially marked by the adoption of a plan of
Settlement of the question of the Western Sahara, in accordance with
which the MINURSO was created and deployed, a cease-fire established
in September 1991, and the identification of the possible voters in
the referendum realised. Through it resolution 1495 (2003), The Un
Security Council approved the "Peace Plan for the Self-determination
of the people of the Western Sahara", also known as "Baker Plan".
Algeria continues to be convinced that the Baker Plan is still valid
as a political solution to the conflict in the Western Sahara
because it constitutes the only juridical framework recognised and
validated by the international community.
Faithful to its convictions an to its engagement in the cause of the
decolonisation of the colonial countries and peoples, Algeria will
continue firmly rejecting any manoeuvres aiming to extract the
solution of the Saharawi question from its international framework
and the framework of the self-determination.
Algeria will continue offering its help to the United Nations and
its Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, in their efforts to find a
definitive solution to the question of the Western Sahara, which is
opposing the Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front for more
than 30 years so far. (SPS)
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