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New York, 09/03/2007 (SPS) The President of the Republic,
Mohamed Abdelaziz, met on Thursday at the seat of the United Nations
in New York, with the new UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon,
indicated a source from the Saharawi representation in the UN.
"President Abdelaziz and the Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon,
accompanied with their collaborators, met for bout 45 minutes to
discuss the Saharawi dossier", the same source indicated, stressing
that President Abdelaziz has "deeply tackled the history, the
current situation and the perspectives of the peace process in the
Western Sahara".
The Head of the State reaffirmed to his interlocutor the attachment
of the Saharawi people and the Polisario Front to the already
elaborated solutions, including the last one, mainly the Peace Plan
for the Self-determination for the People of the Western Sahara,
more known as the Baker Plan 2003, elaborated by the US ex-Secretary
of State, James Baker.
"Polisario Front remains attached to the proposition of the United
Nations as well as to the solution proposed and to the basic
principles on which it was elaborated, mainly the self-determination
referendum for the Western Sahara", the Saharawi President recalled.
The Saharawi delegation put forward that any other approach or
proposition of solution that contradict the principle of
self-determination is rejected by the Saharawi people and can in no
way be considered by the United Nations in replacement to the
framework and solutions already approved by the international
community for a question of decolonisation that is the problem of
the Western Sahara.
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon took into consideration the
position of the Polisario Front and promised to inform the Security
Council in April when he will present his next report on the Western
Sahara. The report is expected to be presented by April the
20th.
Mr. Abdelaziz also tackled the question of the human rights
violations in the Western Sahara committed by the Moroccan forces of
occupation, it as indicated.
The Saharawi President stressed before the UN Secretary General on
the need of the implementation of the recommendations of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, in her special report
on the Western Sahara issued in October 2006.
Mrs. Arbour, it should be recalled, had recognised in her report
transmitted to the UN that Morocco systematically violates the human
rights in the Saharawi occupied territories and that the inner cause
behind these violations is due to the non implementation of the
right to self-determination.
The President of the Republic finally invited Mr. Ban Ki-moon to
visit the region, "an invitation that the UN Secretary General
promised to take into consideration", an authorised Saharawi source
indicated. (SPS)
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