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Chahid El Hafed,
24/03/2007 (SPS) The new Special Representative of the UN Secretary
General for the Western Sahara, Mr. Julien Harston, met on Saturday
afternoon in Chahid Tamek Centre with the Saharawi Coordinator with
the MINURSO, Mr. Mhamed Khadad, within the framework of the visit
the UN’s official undertakes in the Saharawi Republic since this
morning.
During the meeting the two arties discussed the relations between
the UN mission and the Polisario Front as well as the coming
appointments of the Morocco-Saharawi conflict at the level of the UN
Security Council, the Saharawi official indicated to SPS after the
meeting.
Mr.
Khadad recalled his interlocutor that the mission of the UN in the
Western Sahara remains the organisation of a free and regular
referendum on self-determination so as the Saharawi people can
freely decide over their future and that any deviation of this
mission is politically unacceptable and legally un indefensible, and
consequently will unavoidable erase the basis of the cease-fire in
force since 15 years in the territory.
Upon
his arrival this morning, the Special Representative of the
Secretary General was received in the Wilaya of Smara by its
Governor (Wali) Mr. Bouchraya Beyoune, and the Saharawi refugees
raising the Saharawi Republic’s flags and chanting slogans in favour
of the independence of the Western Sahara.
In a
meeting with the cadres and representatives of the Dairas
(municipalities) of the Wilaya, the UN official was able to hear
from different speakers that the credibility of the UN is at stake
after so many years of inertia in front of the procrastination of
Morocco, stressing that patience has got limits.
"The
delays and procrastination" were also condemned by the Saharawi
Consultative Council, which has received Mr. Hartson after the
popular meeting.
The
President of the Council, Mr. Embarek Lehdeib and the members of the
Council’s Bureau recalled in their different interventions the
remarkable work achieved by the mission of identification of voters
with the help of the chioukhs and asked for an immediate resuming to
the referendum process, as the only an unique way for the
establishment of a just and lasting peace in the Western Sahara.
On
another hand, they affirmed that the so-called autonomy plan
proposed by Morocco can in no way progress and is vouched to
failure.
Mr.
Harston, who continued his turn by visiting the museum of war and
the 27 February School, will be received in the evening by the
President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz.
The
visit to the Saharawi Republic undertaken by the UN Secretary
general Special Representative, Mr. Julien Harston, the second stage
of his turn that he started this week in Rabat and which will be
followed by a visit to Nouakchott and Algiers, intervenes within the
framework of his contacts with the parties to the conflict of the
Western Sahara, Morocco and the Saharawi Republic, in addition to
the concerned countries, Mauritania and Algeria, it was indicated.
(SPS)
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