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SPS Closure in Abuja of the African summit on the AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria 06.05.05
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Abuja, 06/05/2006 (SPS) The African Summit on the struggle against the AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which has opened on Thursday, with the presence of the African leaders to discuss the means to strengthen the struggle against these diseases that kill millions Africans, was closed at the evening by the adoption of a strategy against these diseases extending to the year 2010.
The President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, who is chairing animportant Saharawi delegation, called in his intervention before his African counterparts "to redouble efforts and cooperation to eradicate the AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which are devastating the continent".
The Head of the African States and Governments reaffirmed, at the end of this extraordinary summit held in Abuja, their engagement to the objectives defined by the Declarations of Abuja of 2000 and 2001, and to the Millenary as fixed by the UN.
2,8 millions up to 3,9 millions Africans were infected by AIDS in 2005, while 2,4 millions adults and children were dead of the same disease, he African Union indicated in a press release.
Africa counts more than a quarter of the cases of Tuberculosis and 90% of the 250 millions of case of Malaria in the world, the press release stressed. (SPS)
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SPS Five young Saharawis aggressed in Boujdour, sporadic demonstrations in Smara
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Smara (occupied territories), 06/05/2006 (SPS) 5 young Saharawis were aggressed by the Moroccan forces of occupation in the occupied city of Boujdour, while sporadic demonstrations are taking place since Friday in different occupied cities of Smara and Boujdour, concordant sources indicated.
On another hand, a Saharawi woman, Aminetou Ely Mhamed, was deprived of receiving the visit of her sister that was coming from the refugee camps within the framework of the UN’s supervised family exchange visits. Mrs. Aminetou was blamed by the Moroccan authorities for having participated in peaceful demonstrations, last April the 26 and 27, advocating the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and the immediate withdrawal of the Moroccan colonial forces from e occupied territories.
The Saharawi political prisoner, Lehcen Abdallahi, was transported to the local prison in the Moroccan city of Ait Melloul, while his parents are looking after him in the hospital of Agadir.
The family, who had many negotiations with the Moroccan medical service in the hospital that did not allow them to see their son while he was there, had had to go back to the prison of Ait Melloul where they were not allowed by the penitentiary authorities to visit him, knowing that the state of the prisoner is "critical", according to the family.
Mr. Lehcen Abdallahi is in his 40th day of hunger strike. He is the 14th of the last Saharawi political prisoners still maintained in Moroccan custody in the prisons of El Aaiun (2 prisoners), Inzegan (10 prisoners) and Ait Melloul (2 prisoners).
The Moroccan colonial authorities announced, in the eve of the last meeting of the UN’s Security Council on the Western Sahara, that they released all the Saharawi political prisoners, it was recalled. (SPS)
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SPS There will be no solution to the Western Sahara conflict without a referendum, affirms the German Green Party
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Berlin, 06/05/2006 (SPS) The assistant of the President of the Parliamentary group of the German Green Party, Jürgen Trittin, estimated that there will be no solution to the conflict of the Western Sahara without a "referendum" for the Saharawi people, adding that the Baker Plan is ideal to resolve the conflict.
"The resolution 1495, the UN’s Security Council adopted in 2003 that plans for the organisation of a referendum on the future of the territory after a five years transitory period, be finally implemented", Mr. Trittin affirmed after a meeting with the Minister for Occupied Territories, Khalil Sidi Mhamed, last eek in Berlin.
To Mr. Trittin, "the new prorogation of the UN’s mission mandate, so as to supervise the cease-fire in the Western Sahara for a six month supplementary period was necessary", yet "it is not enough to find a solution for this country under the Moroccan occupation", "the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination must be respected", was added.
"To this date, Morocco succeeded to hinder the preparation of this referendum. The United Nations must find ways to stop this policy of stalemate", he said.
On its side, "the European Union and its member, including France, are invited not only to support the necessary decisions to reach this objective, but also to implement them", he stressed, adding that the international community "is called, more than ever, to effectively engage in the resolution of the Western Sahara". (SPS)
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SPS Emergency humanitarian aid from the Spanish associations for the Saharawi refugees
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Madrid, 06/05/2006 (SPS) A caravan of emergency humanitarian aid, collected in the different regions of Spain, will start this May the 11th from Alicante heading to the Saharawi refugee camps, announced the State Coordination of the Spanish associations supporting he Saharawi people (CEAS-Sahara).
Some 70 vehicles, trucks in their majority, will send this aid, composed of food, medicine, clothes and tents as well as different types of material that will be used in the building of schools and hospitals, the same source indicated.
The objective of this initiative is to palliate the consequences of inundations that affected last February in the Saharawi refugee camps leaving more than 50.000 persons without shelters, the Coordination stressed.
The President of the Coordination, Mr. José Taboada indicated that the Caravan will be accompanied by a delegation of representatives of Spanish autonomous regions, municipalities, NGOs and different agencies of cooperation, which insisted to be present to the ceremony of delivery of this aid to the Saharawi Red Crescent to demonstrate their solidarity.
On another hand, this delegation, and dozen other representatives of the Spanish civil society, will participate this May the 21st to a demonstration of protest in front of the Moroccan military wall that divides the Western Sahara in two parts from the north to the south, the same source indicated. (SPS)
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SPS The Spanish movement of solidarity reiterates its steady engagement in favour of the Saharawi cause
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Madrid, 06/05/2006 (SPS) The Spanish associations of friendship and solidarity with the Saharawi people reiterated, on Saturday, their steady engagement in favour of the Saharawi cause, affirming that they will never "betray" this people that are struggling for their legitimate right to self-determination.
the State Coordination of the Spanish associations supporting he Saharawi people (CEAS-Sahara) underlined, in a press release publicised by its President, José Taboada, that the exercise by the Saharawi people of this right to self-determination is ''unavoidable''.
''None, not even Polisario Front, can renounce to this right that corresponds, unavoidably, to all the Saharawi people'', CEAS-Sahara further underlined, adding that the United Nations ''can not, in no case, permit a plan (...) that marginalise this principle'', in reference to the ''so-called autonomy'' Morocco announced.
In this respect, CEAS-Sahara further recalled that all the UN’s Security Council’s resolutions basically stipulate that any solution to the conflict of the Western Sahara must ''be within the framework of the respect of the right to self-determination'' of the Saharawi people.
"The United Nations can insist on the opening of direct negotiations (between Morocco and Polisario Front), plan for the withdrawal of the MINURSO (UN’s Mission for a referendum in the Western Sahara) or opt for total inactivity in the dossier of the Western Sahara (...), but it can never betray its own resolutions an Charter'', CEAS-Sahara affirmed.
The associations that compose the Spanish movement of solidity with the Saharawi people recalled that they are ''largely represented and backed in hundreds cities and institutions in Spain''.
''Thousands Spanish families have direct relations with Saharawi families and can speak with the same voice. They denounce the occupation, repression, detentions and tortures in the occupied territories and support the Polisario Front and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic'', the press release underlined. (SPS)
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