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Madrid,
22/03/2007 (SPS) The self-determination referendum for the Saharawi
people must be the "beforehand condition sine qua non" in the search
ofa solution to the conflict of the Western Sahara, affirmed on
Wednesday the ex Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Josep Piqué,
the member of the Spanish Popular Party (PP, main party of
opposition).
"The right to the self-determination is a basic condition to reach a
solution to the problem, and consequently, speaking about dialogue
without beforehand political conditions, is in a way to question
this right", he said.
"What must be a preliminary condition sine qua non, is the
self-determination referendum", Mr. Piqué underlined during the
plenary session of the Spanish Senate, with the presence of the
current Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Miguel Angel Moratinos.
He underlined that the Spanish diplomacy has always "subscribed"
within the framework of the UN peace plans and Security Council’s
resolutions and "has never abandoned the active neutrality" on the
question of the Western Sahara.
"This continuity of the Spanish foreign policy on the Western
Sahara, maintained by all the Spanish governments, was broken by the
socialist government, which started modifying it in a way that was
clearly understood by the Polisario Front, Morocco and the Spanish
public opinion’’, he noted.
On another hand, M. Piqué stressed that the "international legality
has never recognised to Morocco any kind of sovereignty on the
Western Sahara and consequently can never recognise the acceptance
of the autonomy plan because the latter implies a full and
preliminary sovereignty of Rabat on the territory".
(SPS)
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