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SPS EP’s intergroup for the Western Sahara calls on Morocco to recognise Saharawi people’s right to self-determination 02.12.05
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Brussels, 02/12/2005 (SPS) The President of the EP’s intergroup for the Western Sahara, Mr. Karin Scheele and her vice-President, Raul Romeva i Rueda, called on Morocco to "be coherent and recognise Saharawi people’s right to self-determination", which is a basic principle of the international legality, according to a press release publicised last November the 29th 2005 by the Intergroupe in Brussels.
The EP’s intergroupe, which expressed its "concern" in front of the policy of repression exercised by the Moroccan regime against the Saharawi citizens in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and South Morocco, stressed that this policy is "completely unacceptable".
It also demanded "the immediate release" of all the prisoners of consciousness, without more delays and without any iniquitous judgements, claiming for "a jut and transparent trials" for the Saharawi political detainees in Moroccan custody.
The text also noted that the "situation of human rights in Western Sahara requires, now more than ever, a special attention from the international community".
The press release expressed deep regret about the blockage of web sites last week in the occupied territories as well as the successive aggressions against children, women, old persons, handicapped as well as the ransacking of Saharawi houses since last May 2005 for "the simple reason of been Saharawis".
Qualifying these practices as "inadmissible an revolting", the press release further underlined that the policy of repression imposed by the Moroccan forces is the result of the absence of freedoms starting from the freedom "of expression to the physical torture". (SPS)
020/090/666 021420 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS The Mayor of Santa Lucia (Canaries) renews his support to Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
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Gan
Canaria (Canaries Islands- Spain), 02/12/2005 (SPS) The Mayor
of Santa
Lucia (Canaries) renewed his support to Saharawi people’s right to
self-determination during a reception he offered, Thursday in his
Mayoralty, on the honour of the President of the Republic,
Mohamed
Abdelaziz, who is undertaking a three days official visit to the Canaries
Islands, indicated a close source to the Presidential delegation.
"Transmit to
your courageous people our engagement, here in the Canaries Islands, to continue
working and struggling so as you benefit, as soon as possible, of freedom and of
your legitimate rights", the Mayor stressed in this reception, also attended by
Mr. Carmelo Ramirez, President of the Spanish Federation of the Institution
supporting the Western Sahara (FEDISSAH), Counsellors, Parliamentarians and
members of the Canaries Islands’ Association of support to the Saharawi people.
On another hand, the Presidential delegation met with the
President of
the Confederation of Canaries Islands Businessmen, Mario Rodríguez Rodríguez,
and his assistant, Agustín Espino Flores. The meeting was an opportunity to
exchange ideas about the future economical and commercial relations between SADR
and the Canaries Islands, it was indicated.
The explosive situation in the occupied zones of Western Sahara and in the South
of Morocco was the subject of a conference animated by the President of the
Republic, attended by representatives of the movement of solidarity in the
island besides the Saharawi local community.
"Our
populations under Moroccan domination gave a lesson to the entire world: All
Saharawi people are decided to attain heir definitive objective, an independent
Saharawi State" (...) "Saharawi people will never accept the Moroccan colonial
status Quo. Saharawi people will only accept independence", he said.
The Head of the State finally received the President of the Committee of
Canaries Islands’ Workers
(CCOO in Spanish), who reiterated the support of his Trade Union to the Saharawi
cause and Saharawi people’s right to freedom and independence. (SPS)
010/090/100/TRD
021428 dec 05 SPS
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SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE