SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

El Aaiun (refugees' camps) 01/04/2004 (SPS) The Prime Minister, Abdelakader Taleb Oumar, chaired on Tuesday in the Wilaya of El Aaiun, a national conference for the reorganisation of the public employment and the employment's policy, SPS has noted.

A project of a salary schedule, complementary rectifications of Public employment's status and some projects of creating cooperatives for employment, were the main themes developed in this conference that took place between the 30th to the 31st March with the presence of many members of National Secretariat, Government, Parliament and associations.

«Within the framework of the amelioration of the National institutions of the Saharawi Republic, we organised this conference to correctly plan the national human resources in front of the challenges of the national liberation and the edification of our young state», Stressed Secretary of State for public employment, Chaibani Abbass, to SPS.

Mr. Abbass, has also indicated that «some cooperatives will be created soon to promote the work in agricultural production, construction and the other services». (SPS)

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UN/HUMAN RIGHTS/INTERNATIONAL UNION OF SOCIALIST YOUTH
The Socialist Youth calls UN to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Western Sahara

Geneva, 01/04/2004 (SPS) The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) launched, on Monday, an appeal to the UN's Commission for Human Rights, to dispatch a fact-finding mission to the occupied territories of Western Sahara under Moroccan occupation, in order to assess the state of terror and repression imposed on Civil population on the ground.

«we call upon the Commission to consider devising mechanisms for ensuring an international observation in the territory and opening it up for the media and human rights organisations», underlined the representative of IUSY to the 60th session of the UN's Commission for Human Rights which is taking place in Geneva from the 15th March to the next 23rd April.

The youth's organisation drew the attention of the UN's Commission to the violations of human rights perpetrated in Western Sahara, as a consequence to the «Moroccan illegal occupation» of the Territory since 1975, deploring that Saharawi people «has not been able to exercise its right to self-determination' In accordance with item 9» relative to human rights' violations and to fundamental freedoms.

«The Saharawi population living in the occupied territories of Western Sahara are subjected to all sorts of abuses and intimidation carried out by Moroccan administrative and security services», noted the speaker, adding that human rights' activists in particular «are under constant risk of being pursued by the police, fired of their work, deported to Morocco, or arrested and sentenced in unfair trails».

Approaching another humanitarian aspect of the conflict, the IUSY stressed that «the families of the Saharawi disappeared are still suffering as a consequence of Morocco's reluctance to account for more than 500 disappeared, and more than a hundred of Saharawi POWs that Morocco is completely silent on their fate».

Moreover, the organisation condemned the wall erected by Moroccan forces to «divide Western Sahara and fence off the occupied part of the territory... What aggravates the endurance of the Saharawi people».

«Should the Saharawi be repatriated to their country in order to exercise their right to self-determination freely and democratically, the wall will always be an overwhelming hindrance and impending danger for them», added the speaker. (SPS)

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