SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

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SADR/ALGERIA/SOLIDARITY

The Saharawi President: The Algerian support is a result to its principles

Algiers, 09/07/2006 (SPS) The Algerian support to the peoples in struggle for their self-determination is "a question of principles" and not of interests or sentiments, the President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, affirmed on Saturday in Algiers, on the occasion of his participation to the week of the Saharawi Republic organised by the Algerian National Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS) and the summer University of Polisario Front’s cadres in Algiers from the 6^th to the 15th July.

The Head of the Saharawi State stressed that the struggle of Algeria, the country of the 1,5 millions Chouhada (martyrs), influenced the contemporary history and was an example for many African movements of liberation.

He also saluted "courageous position" of Algeria in favour of the Saharawi cause, a position, he said, which caused it "a number of problems at the regional and international level. Nonetheless, Algeria preferred to defend the justice to the detriment of its own interests", he added.

In this respect, the Saharawi President recalled of the achievements of Algeria during the lat years. He expressed his deep satisfaction about the "comfortable" position Algeria is enjoying at the internal, security, economical, regional and international levels thanks to the efforts of its sons and its policy of national reconciliation.

"While the Saharawi cause is facing the "so-called autonomy" Morocco is trying to impose with the support of the Spanish government and France, Algeria said "Non to the violators of the Saharawi people’s right to freedom and independence", he said.

President Abdelaziz, finally, expressed his thanks to the members of the CNASPS for their initiative, which is marked this year by "a perfect organisation". (SPS)

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SADR/ALGERIA/SUMMER UNIVERSITY

International law forbids the exploitation of the colonised countries’ wealth (economist)

Algiers, 09/07/2006 (SPS) The International law forbids the exploitation of the natural resources of colonised countries as well as the signing of conventions in this domain with the occupying forces, affirmed Dr. Abdelmadjid Gueddi, Professor of Economy in University of Algiers on Saturday in the Algerian capital.

Dr. Abdelmadjid Gueddi animated a conference on the plundering of the natural resources of occupied countries, as it is "the case of the Western Sahara", on the occasion of the week of the Saharawi Republic and the summer university of the Polisario Front’s cadres held between the 6^th toe 15^th of July in Algiers.

Tackling the plundering of the colonised peoples’ natural resources through history, especially in the African country, the Algerian professor recalled the exploitation by Morocco of the natural resources of the Western Sahara, stressing that this natural wealth "belongs" to the Saharawi and nobody has got the right to exploit it.

The Western Sahara Le Sahara contains important natural resources, especially phosphate, he recalled, emphasising that Morocco by exploit these resources wants to remain in the front of the exporting countries of this mineral to the world".

Morocco wants to control the market of manure to remain "the principal supplier of this product", he stressed.

Concerning the fishing resources, Dr. Gueddi recalled that the Saharawi 1500 km shores, contain some twenty species of fishes and some sixty species of shellfishes, which contribute to the maintenance of the biological equilibrium of the region, underlining that these wealth is threatened because of the over-exploitation by Morocco.

The lecturer stressed that the oil resources of the Western Sahara are facing the same threats, recalling in this respect that Morocco has signed accords and conventions with foreign oil companies to plunder the Western Sahara’s natural resources.(SPS)

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SPAIN/MOROCCO/HUMAN RIGHTS

The Spanish human rights League denies "so-called statements" of its President to the Moroccan Press Agency

Madrid, 09/07/2006 (SPS) The Spanish human rights League denied "so-called statements" of its President, Francisco José Alonso, to the Moroccan official Press Agency, MAP, according to which the latter affirmed that "there are no guarantees that the human rights are respected in the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf".

The organisation indicated in a pres release publicised on July the 5th in Madrid that Mr. José Alonso "has never given such statements" and that in the contrary the League "was able to verify in many occasions on the ground that human rights a not violated in the Saharawi refugee camps. What we can not say about human rights situation in the territories of the Western Sahara occupied by Morocco", the Spanish organisation stressed in a press release, of which SPS received a copy.

It also recalled that the Moroccan Government "systematically forbids the entry of missions of observers in the occupied zones of the Western Sahara", calling to the "the authorisation" of a delegation of this organisation to "undertake a visit of investigation on the multiple denunciations received from the territories of the Western Sahara occupied by Morocco since 1975", the press release stressed.

"The League is waiting since more than a year the authorisation from the Moroccan authorities allowing a delegation to visit the mentioned territories to investigate in situ the permanent violation of human rights against the population in the Moroccan Government", the press release concluded. (SPS)

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