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SADR/SPAIN/SUPPORT
Spanish political parties express their "firm support to the Saharawi Government and Polisario Front"
09.03.05




Chahid El Hafed, 09/04/2005 (SPS) The Presidents of 'Izquierda Unida' (IU) and the 'Bloque por Asturias' (BA- Union for Asturias), respectively Mr. Jesus Iglesias and Mr. Roberto Colunga, expressed their " firm support" to the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and Polisario Front, in a letter addressed by the two leaders the Head of the State, Mohamed Abdelaziz, received on Friday.

"We would like to reiterate, on behalf of our two organisations, 'Izquierda Unida' and the 'Bloque por Asturias', our firm engagement and support to Saharawi people, their Government and to Polisario Front", wrote the letter, signed in March the 31st and submitted on April the 8 to the President of the Republic by the person in charge for cooperation near Asturias.

"This engagement", underlined the senders, "do not see any option other than the exercise by the Saharawi people of their right to self-determination through the mechanisms accepted by their Government and legitimate representative, aimed at resolving an illegal occupation and a conflict that already persists for 30 long years".

The two parties criticised "the hypocrisy that prevented from a honest and effective intervention of the international community and the different Spanish Governments, who ignores the international legality and the rights of your people".

The IU and the BA declared their determination to "impulse the tangible and daily solidarity" with the Saharawi Government, through the participation of the members of the two parties "in the Mayoralties, Parliaments and Governments in which we are present" to encourage "the policies and programmes of cooperation" with SADR.

"We feel we have the duty to contribute to pay back the enormous debt of the Spanish State and society" towards what used to be "the Spanish Sahara", concluded the text. (SPS)

060/090/000 091020 AVR 05 SPS




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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION
Saharawi journalists and writers denounce the Moroccan Medias campaign against Saharawi activists



Chahid El Hafed, 09/04/2005 (SPS) The Union of Saharawi Journalists and Writers (UPES) expressed its preoccupation in front of the "degradation of the human rights situation in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and South of Morocco", condemning the Moroccan medias campaigns led by the means "of communication of the Makhzen" against Saharawi human rights activists.

In a press release publicised Saturday, of which SPS received a copy, the UPES called national and international organisations to "unmask these Moroccan colonial practices" perpetrated against the Saharawi people, who are submitted to "a real forced collective detention" because of the Medias and military siege imposed on the territory.

The Union condemned "all the practices that contradicts the profession of journalism, adopted by Moroccan means of communication that do not stop propagating lies and calumnies invented against Saharawi people, their legitimate political representative, Polisario Front, and against the institutions and leaders of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic".

It also expressed "its unconditional solidarity and support to all Saharawi human rights activists, their right to free expression, demonstration, movement, self-determination and independence".

The text put forward the case of the Saharawi human right activists and ex-political prisoner, Ali Salem Tamek, who is subjected to these practices because he "tried to help a 10 years old Saharawi girl, one of the hundreds victims of the mines implanted by the Moroccan royal forces in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and in the south of Morocco". (more information on the story of the young victim, Hjeiba Aouimir ).

The UPES finally called to the dismantling of the Moroccan military wall, "the wall of shame", which constitutes a "crime against humanity and an abuse of the Saharawi people rights over their territory". It added that the military building is also "an obstacle to the national and international journalists and observers who desire to work in the occupied territories of Western Sahara". (SPS)

020/090/000/TRD 091430 AVRIL 05 SPS

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