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London,
27/03/2007 (SPS) Members of London’s municipalities called on the
British Secretary of State for the Middle East and International
Security, Mr. Kim Howells, to act in favour of the implementation of
the UN’s resolutions consecrating the right of the Saharawi people
to self-determination, indicated the Algerian Press Service, APS.
In a letter addressed by Kim Howells, these members estimated that
the United Kingdom as a permanent member of the UN Security Council
"is capable to play a vital role to find a just and peaceful
solution to the Western Sahara’s problem of decolonisation".
"In your quality as Secretary of State for the Middle East, we call
on you to act in urgency to find a solution to this question", the
signatories of the letter wrote.
The members of the Labour Party in the municipality were informed on
the situation in the Western Sahara during their meeting last month
with the Saharawi human rights activist, Ali Salem Tamek, stresses
the letter, which is signed by Mr. John Biggs, active member of
London’s municipality from the Labour Party in power.
"This question was discussed with Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
and withe other members of the Labour Party in the municipality",
and the need to implement "the UN resolutions on the Saharawi
people’s right to self-determination" were also discussed.
"We know exactly the diplomatic history of this region" the members
underlined, recalling that in "1975, the International Court of
Justice ruled in favour of the Saharawi people’s right to
elf-determination".
On another hand, the letter underlines that Morocco is currently
promoting an autonomy plan for the Western Sahara that would give
the Saharawis a Parliament able to define the local policy (...) but
would give Morocco the control on all that concern the flag, money,
stamp and religious affairs". A project that, according to the
letter, is entirely far from the recommendations of the UN, which
consider that the self-determination is the way to settle the
conflict.
The writers of the letter called on Great Britain to exercise
additional pressures on Morocco to accept and implement the
decisions o the international legality.
They also asked for a British action to guarantee the security of
the Saharawi human rights activist, Ali Salem Tamek. (SPS)
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