SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

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SADR/USA/INDEPENDENCE DAY/CONGRATULATION

The President of the Republic congratulates President Bush for the US Independence Day

Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), 06/07/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, sent a message of congratulation, on Tuesday, to the President of the USA, George George W. Bush, on the occasion of the United States Independence Day.

“The struggle of the people of the United States for self-determination and freedom serves as an example for other peoples that are fighting for their freedom and dignity”, President Abdelaziz wrote, stressing that “the people of the Western Sahara … continues to fight, using all legal means”, so that they “can through a democratic and free referendum” choose their future.

Here is the complete text of the letter, of which SPS received a copy:

“July 4, 2006

His Excellency

President George W. Bush

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20500

Your Excellency:

On behalf of the Saharawi people and my own, I wish to express to you and to the people of the United States our most sincere congratulations on the occasion of your Independence Day.

The struggle of the people of the United States for self-determination and freedom serves as an example for other peoples that are fighting for their freedom and dignity.

The people of the Western Sahara, whose right to self-determination is internationally recognized, continues to fight, using all legal means, so that the Saharawi people can through a democratic and free referendum choose its destiny.

We hope that the United States will play an active role in northwest Africa by promoting a lasting peace based in the respect of the right to self-determination for the people of the Western Sahara.

I avail this opportunity to renew our wish in having in the future solid and beneficial relations between our two peoples.

Mr President, please accept the expression of my highest consideration

Mohamed Abdelaziz

Chairman of the Polisario Front

President of the Saharawi republic”. (SPS)

060/JHB/110 061535 Jul 06 SPS

SPS

SADR/SPAIN/CONDOLENCES

Message of condolences by the President of the Republic to the King of Spain

Bir Lehlu (liberated territories), 06/07/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, sent on Wednesday a message of condolence to the King of Spain, His Majesty Juan Carlos de Borbón, on the occasion of the tragic accident in Valencia, last Saturday the 3^rd of July 2006, which cause 40 dead victims.

Here is the complete text of the letter, of which SPS received a copy:

"His Majesty Juan Carlos de Borbón,

King of Spain,

Royal Palace,

Madrid

Bir Lehlu, 04 of July 2006

Majesty,

I am addressing your Majesty to express you our condolences, on behalf of the Saharawi people and myself.

The sad accident in Valencia, that took place last Monday the 3rd of July 2006, which cause more than 40 dead victims, has deeply sadden all Saharawis, who are considering themselves brothers and friends to all the Spanish peoples.

Through your Majesty, I would like to address all the people of Valencia, to show our condolences to the families of the dead victims and to wish the quick recovery to the wounded. The hearts of the Saharawi people are with all of them.

….

Mohamed Abdelaziz,

President of the Saharawi Republic,

Secretary General of the Frente POLISARIO". (SPS)

070/090/100/TRD 061140 Jul 06 SPS

SPS

SADR/ALGERIA/WEEK OF THE SADR

The Saharawi Government calls on the international community to recognise the Saharawi Republic

Algiers, 06/07/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Prime Minister, Abdelkhader Taleb Oumar, recalled on the international community, on Thursday, to "defend the legality" through the recognition of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), estimating that this recognition as a "global and logical" answer to the refusal by "the Moroccan occupier" of the Saharawi people’s right to freedom.

"We also invite the international community to oeuvre so as to put an end to the blockage imposed on the occupied territories" by Morocco, the Saharawi Prime Minister added during the ceremony of the opening of the summer university of Polisario Front, which took place in the complex Laadi Flici (théâtre des verdures) in Algiers.

He further called on the international community "to exercise pressures on the forces of occupation so as to allow observers, NGOs and Medias to have access to the occupied territories", underlining that "the stability and security in the region unavoidably passes by the end of the occupation.

"The conflict of Western Sahara is considered by the international law as a decolonisation question and its solution can only be in the exercise by the Saharawi people of their right to self-determination", he underlined.

On another hand, he indicated that the activities undertaken in the summer university, especially the meeting between Saharawi a Algerian elected officials and the cultural activities, is a proof on the "extent and deepness of the solidarity and indefectible position of the Algerian State and people in favour of the Saharawi cause".

On his side, the former Head of the Algerian Government, Mr. Reda Malek, animated a conference in which he tackled the long Algerian struggle to gain their freedom and to build the Algerian State after the independence.

In this respect, he indicated that the independence of the Saharawi people is an "inalienable right", underlining that "the construction of the great Maghreb must not be achieved to the detriment of the people of the Western Sahara". (SPS)

020/ALG/000/TRD 061520 Jul 06 SPS