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SPS Spain has got "a historical obligation" towards the Saharawi people, declares the Spanish Secretary of State for Cooperation 01.02.06
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Madrid, 01/02/2006 (SPS) The Spanish Secretary of State for Cooperation, Leire Pajin, declared on Monday that Spain has got "a historical obligation" towards the Saharawi people, affirming that her people must deploy "diplomatic efforts so as to find a definitive and just solution to the conflict" of Western Sahara that languished for more than 30 years so far, reported Spanish Press Agency, Europa Press.
In an interview she gave to Spanish newspaper, published on its website, the Spanish Secretary of State for Cooperation recognised that the Minister for Foreign Affairs must "redouble" its efforts to explicate the "daily and unequivocal" commitment towards the Saharawi people.
Leire Pajín, explicated that it is necessary to "enforce the UN’s resolutions in Western Sahara", she said.
The two Spanish Secretaries of State, Leire Pajin and Bernardino Leon, undertook an official visit to the Saharawi refugee camps, it should be recalled.
Mr. Bernardino underlined, during his visit to the camps, that the conflict in Western Sahara is an "urgent problem that requires from the international community, especially the UN, to assume their duties aside by the principle actors" in the conflict, adding that his country is been active as a "facilitator" to "contribute" to resolve the problem as soon as possible, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/666/TRD 011500 Feb 06 SPS
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SPS Aminatou Haidar denounces the iniquitous trials against Saharawi political prisoners
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 31/01/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi political prisoner and human rights activist, Aminatou Haidar, denounced on Monday "the iniquitous trials against the Saharawi political prisoners, especially Saharawi human rights activists" in Western Sahara, calling on the international community "to protect the Saharawi helpless civilians", in a press release she publicised the same day, of which SPS received a copy.
Mrs. Aminatou Haidar called the international community "protected the Saharawi population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and south of Morocco, who is submitted to a savage repression since the start of the uprising of independence last May 2005".
She also demanded "from the Moroccan Government to unconditionally release all the Saharawi political prisoners, especially the Saharawi human rights activists", the press release indicated.
Mrs. Haidar also called "the raising of the state of siege imposed on the Saharawi territories since the Moroccan invasion, and to allow free access to the territory to the international observers and press, to investigate on the serious situation of human rights in Western Sahara".
Finally, she asked "the international human rights organisations to exercise pressures on Morocco so as to compel it respect the human rights and to allow the international organisations to open investigations on the flagrant human rights violations, committed by the Moroccan State in Western Sahara". (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 00 Feb SPS
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