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Madrid,
17/03/ 2007 (SPS) The Parliament of the Spanish autonomous region of
the Basque Country (north Spain) adopted on Friday a motion in which
it calls on the Spanish central government to firmly work for the
holding of a self-determination referendum in the Western Sahara.
Referring to the duties inherent to "the status of the former
colonial power" of Spain in Western Sahara, the Basque Parliament
called on the Spanish central government to "work during 2007 for
the implementation of the international legality in the territory"
and the "holding of a self-determination referendum planed for in
the UN peace plan and in the Baker Plan II".
In this motion, voted in the plenary session, the Basque
Parliamentarians recalled that all along these last years the UN’s
Security Council approved a set of resolutions reaffirming all the
"right of the Saharawi people to self-determination, as an optimum
solution" to the conflict in the Western Sahara, the territory which
is the subject "to the last decolonisation process in Africa".
The Basque Parliament underlined on another hand that it completely
endorses the motions adopted last March the 13th by the Congress of
Deputies (Spanish National Parliament’s low chamber), in which the
latter establishes the "axis" of the policy to be followed by the
Spanish Central government regarding the conflict of the Western
Sahara. (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 171515 MAR 07 SPS
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