SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Chahid El Hafed, 07/04/2004 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, received on Wednesday at the Presidency, an important delegation of the Canaries Youth of Solidarity with Saharawi People (JCSPS) that has presented him a project entitled «shoulder to shoulder» aiming at assisting Saharawis in the levels of health, education and education.

«Regarding to the immediate neighbourhood of the Canaries people with Saharawi people and the historical relationship that continues to link us, we are called from both sides, to protect and develop these links», underlined the President of the Republic during a reception organised to the youth delegation, to which members of the Canaries Association of the Friends of the Saharawi People (ACAPS) had also took part.

«Hyphen between Africa and Europe in their geographic position, our two peoples had always developed good relationships of neighbourhood», added Mr. Abdelaziz, underlining that «despite of the Moroccan military invasion of our territory in 1975, these relationships had never been disturbed».

Moreover he deplored that «the expansionist nature of Rabat's regime», which is «exporting war, destruction, drugs, illegal immigration and terrorism to its neighbours».

Mr. Abdelaziz expressed his conviction that there are «free men, in Morocco, who have the same ideas we all have, and whom we have to help in order to restore the rights, legality and the respect of the neighbours».

On behalf of the JCSPS, Miss. Cahora Portes Barios, stressed on the factors of union between the two Canaries and Saharawi peoples and presented the characteristics of the JCSPS project, which execution is expected for the beginning of the next year.

«We had lived the struggle of the Saharawi People as if it is ours since the beginnings, and we had it in our hearts. A struggle that unified us to the people that we had always considered as brothers: brothers in destiny, brothers for the neighbourhood to the same sea and brothers by the feeling of the same injustice», underlined the speaker.

It should be recalled that the JCSPS was constituted in March 2003 as a symbolical act that took place in Tenerife and a delegation of the youth organisation has already visited Saharawis refugees' camps then at the same period. (SPS)

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