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SPS SOUTH AFRICA/CAMPAIGN Saharawi Embassy in South Africa: Meetings with representatives and leaders of South African NGOS and political parties 01.07.05
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(Special Envoy)
Johannesburg, 01/06/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Ambassador in South Africa, Mr. Ubbi Bachir, paid, since Thursday, visits and had meetings with the representatives of the South African civil society and leaders of political parties, to inform them on the precarious human rights situation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
Accompanied by the Secretary General of the Saharawi Journalists’ and Writers’ Union, Mr. Malainin Lakhal, the Saharawi Ambassador met on Friday with the Organising Secretary of the Department of the South African Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Mr. Kabelo Selema, the Secretary General of AZAPO (the Azanian People’s Organisation),Ntjammu Dan Habedi, the leaders of the 2nd movement of Liberation in South Africa, Pan African Azanian Congress, as well as the representatives of the Muslims’ community in Johannesburg.
The Saharawi delegation exposed to its interlocutors informations on the human rights situation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara since the 60ies, the role of the United Nations and African Union as well as the amount of international solidarity with the Saharawi cause around the world especially in Africa.
The Representatives of the different political organisations and components of the South African civil society unanimously expressed their indignation in front of the Moroccan human rights violations in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, affirming their "unconditional support to the legitimate struggle of the African people of the Western Sahara", declared Mr. Ntjammu Dan Habedi, the S.G of AZAPO.
On another hand, the Saharawi delegation was invited to animate a round table on the Saharawi question, by the South African Radio, Channel Islam, which is broadcasted in 115 countries around the world. (SPS)
060/JHG/000 011127 JUIN SPS 06
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SPS OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION Six at least arrested and five others wounded in the occupied cities of the Western Sahara
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 01/07/2006 (SPS) Six persons at least were arrested on Friday in El Aaiun within the framework of a wide campaign of arrest the Moroccan forces of repression are undertaking since days while five others were wounded during demonstrations in Bojador calling for the release of the Saharawi citizen, Khaya Bachir El Mamoun, who was arrested last Tuesday while he was attending the judgment of three Saharawi artists, concordant sources reported.
According to a preliminary list, seven Saharawi citizens were identified: Lekfaouni Salek, Ayach Hamza, Edda Ramdan, Brahim Amin Corbina and Lansari Mokhtar, while four houses were brutally ransacked by the Moroccan forces of occupation.
Eyewitnesses reaffirmed that these persons were arrested by the Moroccan forces and led to detention cams where they are still imprisoned.
In the occupied city of Bojador, the Saharawi citizens Azza Bebeit, Al Ghadfa Mechnan, Khaya Al Waara, Salha Khaya and Dleimi were seriously wounded during demonstrations organised by the Saharawi students in a signal of solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners and human rights activists, the same source added.
Despite the announcement on Thursday of the "deceiving" results of the scholar year 2006-2007, the Saharawi students also "reaffirmed their determination to pursue the Intifada of independence calling for the self-determination of the Saharawi people started last May the 21st 2005", the same sources added.
On another hand, the President of the local Committee of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State, the ex-political prisoner, Tahlil Mohamed, who was arrested on Thursday by the Moroccan forces of occupation in Bojador, was abandoned five km outside the city.
Mr. Tahlil Mohamed was brutally tortured and threatened by the Moroccan agents of security under the command of the torturer, El Madfaai and El Kaoui Abderrahmane. They "handcuffed me and started beating me before throwing me in the middle of the desert", Mr. Tahlil stressed in a testimony of which SPS received a copy on Saturday.
In Smara, a Saharawi citizen, El Ouali Zgham, was arrested and tortured by the Moroccan forces of occupation before been released "under the pressures of demonstrations that were gathered in front of a police station in the city, claiming for his immediate release", according to sources close to his family. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 011800 Jul 06 SPS
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SPS SADR/AFRICAN UNION/SUMMIT Opening of the African Union Summit in Banjul with the presence of the President of the Republic
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Banjul, 01/07/2006 (SPS) The Heads of the African States and Governments, including the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, opened on Saturday in Banjul, the works of the 7th Summit of the African Union (AU), which shall study for two days the propositions on the "rationalisation of the regional economic communities (CER) and the regional integration" and the process of the end of the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire and the situation in Darfour.
The UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, invited to the summit along with the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, and the Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saluted "the start of a new wave in the continent, after the wave of independence".
The President of the Republic, arrived on Friday in Banjul, where he was received at the airport by the vice-President of the Gambian Republic, Mrs. Aissata Njaye Sede, it should be recalled.
The Presidential delegation to the AU summit is composed of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, he Member of the National Secretariat, Mhamed Khadad, and Mohamed Yeslem Beissat, Breika Lehbib, Alioune Habib Kentawi, Hamadi Bechir, Abdati Breika, respectively the SG of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador in the AU and Ethiopia, Ambassador of Nigeria, Director of the Cabinet of the President and Councillor at the Presidency. (SPS)
010/BJL/000/TRD 011642 Jul 06 SPS
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SPS SADR/SPAIN/MOROCCO/UN/MEDIAS Any political solution must "respect" the self-determination of the Saharawi people (ex- Spanish Ambassador in Morocco)
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Madrid, 01/07/2006 (SPS) Any solution within the framework of the UN must "respect" the principle of self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara, underlined the for Spanish Ambassador to Morocco, Mr. Fernando Arias Salgado, in an article publicised in the Spanish daily, ABC.
The diplomat indicated that the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination comes under the "Jus Cogens", that is to say that according to the international law, the United Nations, as an organisation and Member States, "are implicated in the resolution of the territorial conflict related to decolonisation".
He added that the UN Security Council "did not assume the initiative of the UN Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan" of last April the 18th, and id not modify the implementation of the principle of legality".
"If the Security Council decides not to use the powers the UN Charter grants to it (art. 24 and 25) to impulse the direct negotiations Mr. Annan recommended, the efficiency of the principle of the legality for a peaceful settlement of the conflict may be put at risk", in the case of the Western Sahara "as in any other situation of threat to international security", he added.
On another hand, ABC indicated that according to diplomatic sources, the UN "can not consider" the plan initiated by king Mohamed VI of Morocco, because "i twill close, according to the same sources, the door to the principle of the Saharawi people’s self-determination". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 011914 jul 06 SPS
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