SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

Chahid El Hafed, 01/06/2005 (SPS) Saharawi Government declared to be "deceived" about the attitude of the Spanish Foreign Affairs, Miguel Angel Moratinos, estimating that it "causes confusion" between the executioner and the victim, declared a Saharawi Governmental source.

"The Saharawi Government is deceived about the attitude of the Minister Angel Moratinos and about the general policy of the new Spanish Government regarding the Western Sahara non finished decolonisation in which Spain assumes a moral and political responsibility", deplored the same source.

In his reaction to the Moroccan repression last May 29 against the Saharawi demonstrations in occupied territories of Western Sahara and south Morocco, Mr. Angel Moratinos, only called Morocco, Polisario Front and Algeria to "serenity". He estimated that the "parties must be mobilised" – without defining what parties he talks about- so as to "restart dialogue within the United Nations" (...) "so as to find a definitive solution" to the conflict, it should be recalled.

Mr. Angel Moratinos statement intervenes "at a moment when a forceful repression strikes the Saharawi population without defence", who peacefully claim for the respect of the international legality and the most fundamental principles of democracy. This statement is "unacceptable because it cause confusion and put the Moroccan executioner with the Saharawi victim in the same level", the same source added.

Polisario Front and the Saharawi Government can not understand "this persistence" by Mr. Angel Moratinos to "ignore UN resolutions, the reality about the nature of the conflict opposing Moroccan occupation to Saharawi people, the only entitled to its inalienable right to self-determination and independence", the source added.

"To ignore this reality and to try to implicate other parties, is to participate with a direct support to the wrong and unjust policy of Morocco, to contribute to push away any perspective of solution and threaten Saharawi people’s interests", the Saharawi Governmental source said.

To the Saharawi Government it would have been "more correct and positive" that the Spanish Diplomat "addresses Morocco" to "release Saharawi political prisoners and respect the international legality" through the holding of a referendum on self-determination that would "put an end to the tragedy of the Saharawi people and contribute to the instauration of a just and lasting peace in a region which is too close to Spain". (SPS)

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Chahid El Hafed, 01/06/2005 (SPS) The Parliament of Aragon denounced on Tuesday the repression exerted by Moroccan forces of occupation against Saharawi citizens, calling the international community to quickly react so as to compel Morocco organise a referendum on self-determination for the Saharawi people, reported a press release by "a special meeting" held by the Parliament’s intergroup "Peace for the Saharawi people".

In its visit to the Saharawi refugees camps from the 28th to the 31st of May, an important delegation of the Spanish Parliament (PSOE, PP, IU, Aragon’s Party), of Trade Unions, Provincial institutions and Medias, was received by the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, at the end of a visit to the refugees camps and to the different political, social and administrative institutions of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic.

"We express our deep rejection of the violent repression exerted by Moroccan police forces against the Saharawi civil population in El Aaiun and Smara", underlined the press release, of which SPS received a copy.

"In front of these facts that contradict human rights and the fundamental political freedoms, we express our firm support to the right to freedom expression and demonstration of the Saharawi society in its legitimate aspiration to exercise its right to self-determination conforming to the international legality", the text added.

Copies of the text were sent to Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Moroccan Embassy to Madrid and to the President of the two Spanish Parliament Chambers.

The Parliament of the autonomous region of Navarre has adopted last May the 5th a resolution supporting the Baker Plan for the self-determination of the Saharawi people, as "a viable and new formula to find a peaceful solution to the conflict", calling the local institutions to "increase the humanitarian aid, cooperation and development for the Saharawi refugees camps", it should be recalled. (SPS)

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/INTIFADA
11 persons injured during demonstrations Wednesday in Smara and Tan Tan

Smara (occupied territories), 01/06/2005 (SPS) 11 persons were injured Wednesday and others arrested during confrontations that opposed Saharawi citizens, who express their rejection of the Moroccan occupation of their country, to Moroccan forces in Smara and Tan Tan (South Moroccan).

Demonstrators in Smara were violently oppressed to the point that a handicapped using a wheelchair, who chanted slogans rejecting Moroccan occupation and calling for the independence of their country. He was subjected to interrogatory and torture.

7 persons were arrested in this city, which witnesses these kinds of demonstrations for the fourth time, it should be recalled.

In Tan Tan, four persons were arrested during the demonstrations that started at 13.00 (GMT+1). The demonstrators chanted slogans such as "long life to SADR", "Down with Moroccan colonialism", "long life to Mohamed Abdelaziz", "Morocco, out!”

Tan Tan, a city in the south of Morocco near the borders of Western Sahara, is inhabited by a big Saharawi community that joined the national campaign of protest against the Moroccan colonialism in the Saharawi territory and its repressive practices. (SPS)

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SADR/ALGERIA/PORTUGAL
Mr. Bouteflika: Western Sahara is a problem of unfinished decolonisation that is under the responsibility of the United Nations

Lisbon, 01/06/2005 (SPS) Algerian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, affirmed before of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal that Western Sahara conflict is a problem of "decolonisation which is under the responsibility of the United nations and the Security Council". He underlined that the importance of the resolution of the conflict for Algeria comes out of "the concern to keep our borders secure".

Recalling that the enforcement of the right to self-determination allowed many peoples to get their independence, "as it was in particular the case of the Algerian people", Mr. Bouteflika also gave the example of East Timor, which got its independence through the exercise of self-determination.

He stressed that in the case of Western Sahara, the conflict "opposes the kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front which is the movement of liberation of the Saharawi people". He also hoped the UN Security Council succeed in convincing the two parties to accept a solution that would "balance between sacrifices and possible concessions". (SPS)

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