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Chahid El Hafed, 27/06/2007 (SPS) The Saharawi negotiators in
Manhasset’s negotiations (New York) that took place between
POLISARIO and Morocco on June 18th and 19th under the auspices of
the UN, gave a presentation on their mission, Wednesday at the
Presidency, in the presence of the President of the Republic,
Mohamed Abdelaziz, in addition to members of the POLISARIO Front’s
National Secretariat, Government, Parliament, Consultative Council
and other cadres of the organisation.
Mr. Mahfoud Ali Beiba, member of the National Secretariat and
President of the Saharawi Parliament, who chaired the negotiating
team, stressed "the intransigence of the Moroccan government", which
characterised this first round of the negotiations and hoped that
Rabat would understand once and for all that "the colonial fait
accompli in Western Sahara is contrary to the legality and
international law".
Mr. Ali Beiba indicated that POLISARIO Front presented its
"proposition for a political and mutually acceptable solution that
provides for the self-determination of the people of Western
Sahara", while Rabat’s position remains “fixed" on the obsolete
leitmotiv: of the “Moroccaness” of Western Sahara.
"Yet, he said, the negotiations will resume next August and we hope
that the Moroccan government come back to reason, stop embarking
against the stream of history and against the UN’s Charter and
resolutions, and enable a peaceful decolonisation of Western
Sahara".
Intervening after the end of the debates, the Head of the Saharawi
State, Mohamed Abdelaziz, considered that none should expect
immediate results from these negotiations, underlining, however,
some positive points of the talks between the two parties to the
conflict.
"The Saharawi question was in the page one of the newspapers, for
some days, world wide. The two parties to the conflict were clearly
defined and sat at the same table of negotiations. The negotiations
took place under the auspices of the UN and are expected to resume",
the Saharawi President stressed.
Mr. Abdelaziz estimates that, "the Moroccan government has not yet
given sign of a real will to negotiate a peaceful solution to the
conflict on the basis of Law and international legality".
In this respect, he put forwards "the systematic human rights
violations, repression, torture and other inhumane treatments and
practices committed against the Saharawi civil population in the
territories of Western Sahara" under Moroccan occupation.
"We are starting a long term struggle and we must re-double efforts
on all fronts to impose our legitimate right to freedom and
independence", Mr. Abdelaziz concluded.
(SPS)
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