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New York, 09/03/2007, (SPS) The President of the Republic,
Mohamed Abdelaziz, affirmed to the UN’s Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon,
during a meeting on Thursday at the seat of the United Nations in
New York, that the Saharawi people’s right to "self-determination
and independence are the only basis recognised by the UN for the
settlement of the conflict of Western Sahara", indicated a written
statement publicised Friday morning by the Saharawi representation
in New York.
Here is the complete text of the statement translated to English by
SPS from the original text in Spanish:
Written Statment for the press
Meeting of the Saharawi President, Secretary General of the OLISARIO
Front with the Secretary General of the United Nations
New York, 8 March 2007
“President Mohamed Abdelaziz, Secretary General of the OLISARIO, was
received on Thursday 8 March 2007 afternoon, by the Secretary
General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon at the seat of the
United Nations. The meeting, which took place with the presence of
some Saharawi high officials and officials from the United Nations,
tackled the peace process, the current situation as well as the
perspectives in the eve of the discussions on the theme expected to
take place within the UN’s Security Council at the end of April.
In this respect, President Mohamed Abdelaziz reaffirmed the
unshakable attachment of the Polisario Front and the Saharawi people
to the rights to self-determination and independence as the unique
basis recognised by the UN for the settlement of the conflict in the
Western Sahara, which is in the agenda of the UN since the sixties
as a decolonisation problem.
President Mohamed Abdelaziz underlined to the UN Secretary General
that the UN has a special responsibility in the complete and
definitive decolonisation of the last colony in Africa. He recalled,
on another hand, that the UN has achieved important realisations
consisted in the Settlement Plan, the Houston Accords signed by both
parties and approved by the UN Security Council in addition to the
Baker Plan. These achievements must be preserved from any attempt to
replace them by propositions or intentions aiming to implicate the
UN in the legitimisation of the "Moroccan colonial fait accompli" in
the Western Sahara.
In this regard, President Mohamed Abdelaziz underlined to the UN
Secretary General that the so called proposition of autonomy Morocco
is pretending to elaborate is no more than an improper manoeuvre
aiming to implicate the United Nations in the legitimisation of its
military occupation or our country. The so-called proposition is
categorically rejected by the Polisario Front and can in no way be
taken into consideration by the United Nations since it is an
unilateral proposition that does absolutely not enjoy the support of
the Saharawi party and violates the Saharawi people’s right to
freely decide over their future.
During the meeting, President Mohamed Abdelaziz talked about the
current situation in the occupied zones of the Western Sahara,
especially the permanent human rights violations and the illegal
exploitation of the natural resources of the territory by the
occupying force. President Mohamed Abdelaziz drew the attention of
the UN Secretary General on the risks and dangers that may be
generated for the Western Sahara and the region because of the
constant rejection by Morocco of the UN’s resolutions and peace
plans, and the persistence in the human rights violations committed
by the forces of occupation in the territory.
The UN Secretary General took note of the position expressed by
President Mohamed Abdelaziz, and affirmed his concern in finding a
solution that is mutually acceptable that provides for the
self-determination, which remain the parameters that guide the
vision of the UN Security Council regarding the question of the
Western Sahara.
The UN Secretary General will present his first report to the
Security Council in the mid- April.”
(SPS)
060/090/100 091413 MAR 07 SPS
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