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Madrid, 06/03/2007 (SPS) The Coordinator of the Unified Left
(Izquierda Unida, 3rd political power in Spain), Gaspar Llamazares,
asked the Spanish government on Monday to assume the "historical
debt" of Spain towards the Saharawi people via "supporting its right
to self-determination".
Commenting on the Spanish-Moroccan high level meeting that opened on
Monday in Rabat, Mr. Llamazares affirmed, in a press conference he
animated at the seat of his party, that maintaining "good relations
of neighbourhood" with Morocco is incompatible with the fact that
Spain has got "to assume its historical and cultural debt towards
the Saharawi people".
He stressed that this debt requires "the support of the Saharawi
people’s right to self-determination, conforming to the UN’s
resolutions".
THe Izquierda Unida Coordinator underlined that his party is against
the use of he Saharawi question as an "exchanging coin" in the
relations between Spain and Morocco. "The Government must stop using
the Saharawi people and must respect the UN’s resolutions in favour
of the self-determination", he declared.
On another hand, the spokesperson of the Spanish Popular Party (PP,
main party in opposition) at the commission for Foreign Affairs at
the Congress, Gustavo de Aristegui, asked the government in a
statement to the press to return to the policy of "active
neutrality" and of "good sense", which was the "traditional
position" of Spain since 1977 on the conflict of the Western Sahara.
(SPS)
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