SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Algiers, 02/92004, (SPS) An international gala/concert for peace will be organised this September the Mouggar room by the Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Sahrawi People (CNASPS), with the participation of Algerian, Spanish and Saharawi artists, reported the Algerian news service APS Thursday, quoting an official communiqué of the CNASPS

This gala will be organised on the occasion of the visit to Algiers from the 7 to the 9th September of a groups of Spanish artists, women in their majority (actresses, actresses, musicians, painters, writers, scenario writers), chaired by Mrs. Cristina Del Valle, artist and UN's ambassador of peace.

In this respect, these Spanish women will join to their Algerian friends to reaffirm, in the presence of an important Saharawi women delegation, "their total support and their active solidarity", with the "legitimate cause of the Saharawi people", in an encounter in Sheraton Hotel under the theme "friendship-solidarity-peace", indicated the same source.

"Besides the informative importance they engender" this artists denounce since many years "the numerous injustices perpetrated around the world, they struggle against all kinds of violence against the woman as well as promoting effectively all initiatives that can encourage the friendship between the different people and the dialogue between cultures".

These artists, who will be accompanied by some parliaments' members and politicians, are visiting Algeria in order to express their gratitude to Algerian President, Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, for "the last measures undertaken to the benefit of Algerian woman, for his effective contribution to the establishment of peace, and his positions of principle in favour of the struggle of the Saharawi people", emphasised the communiqué (SPS)

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Palma de Mallorca undertake an action of solidarity with the Saharawi people

Madrid, 02/09/2004 (SPS) A demonstration of solidarity with the Saharawi people and of support to its right to self-determination is planed for this Friday in La Palma de Mallorca, Capital of the Spanish autonomous community of Balearic Islands.

The goal from this demonstration, which is organised by the Association of the Friends of the Saharawi people in this community, is to claim from the Spanish Government a "greater implication in the establishment of propositions that can allow Saharawi people to exercise its right to self-determination through a referendum organised under the auspices of the United Nations".

The President of the association, Xavier Fortury, stated that the objective of the demonstration is to mobilise his citizens about the Western Sahara conflict and about the violations of human right to which this people is subjected, quoted the Spanish press agency Europa Press.

The second objective, he added, is to exhort the Government to actively take part to the settlement of this conflict by impulsing the process that will lead to the organisation of the referendum.
 
Mr. Fortuny affirmed that Spain must honour its "political and moral debt" towards Saharawi people, whom Spain "abandoned" by signing the tripartite accords of Madrid in 1975. (SPS)

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