SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Chahid El Hafed 10/06/04 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, inaugurated the offices of the principal national newspaper (Sahara Libre), on Wednesday at the ministry of information, with the presence of members of the political leadership and of friends from the international solidarity with the saharawi issue abroad.

“Actually the place in itself, as a building, is certainly modest, but historically it is of a vital importance. "Sahara Libre" is a national newspaper which is the echo of the existence of the Saharawi people", underlined the Head of the State, during this ceremony to which members of the Government, representatives of national and foreign delegations and an important number of journalists took part.

" We have now intellectual abilities and techniques which surely will facilitate the wide spreading of "Sahara Libre" on Internet in order to break the media embargo, and to surmount the military obstacles, namely mines, walls of defence, Moroccan police forces in our occupied territories and, will allow Moroccan intellectuals to listen to our opinion on another hand ", he said.

In spite of "the modest available means and the technological needs required for better efficiency, we are planning to edit this newspaper in Spanish in the near future", he added.

"So, by commemorating, today, the 28th year of the edition of this newspaper, we also commemorate 28 years of Algerian support for our cause side by side with Swedish solidarity, represented here by 'EMMUS'", underlined Mr. Abdelaziz. (SPS)

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