SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

(Special Envoy)

Algiers, 10/07/2006 (SPS) The Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Oumar, met on Monday, with his Algerian counterpart, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, at the Palace of e Government with the presence of the Secretary of State for African and Maghreb Affairs, Abdelkhader Messahel, and the Secretary General of the Algerian Prime Ministry, Houssein Meghlaoui.

After the meeting, the Prime Minister declared to the press that the meeting "enabled us to express our vivid thanks and recognition to the Head of the Algerian Government, and to the Algerian people under the presidency of His Excellency, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika for the constant position of Algeria beside the Saharawi people in their struggle for the freedom and independence".

"This position, he said, which lasted for more than 30 years of the international legality and the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, was reaffirmed again by the Algerian Prime Minister at a moment when the Saharawi cause is facing the "so-called" presented by Morocco", he said.

The meeting was attended by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and of Interior, respectively Mohamed Salem Ould Salek and Mohamed Lamine Dedi, in addition to the President of the Constitutional Council, Mohamed Mazin, and the Saharawi Ambassador to Algiers, Mohamed Yeslem Beissat.

This meeting took place in margin of the works of the week of the Saharawi State, organised between the 6^th to the 12^th July on the initiative of the Algerian National Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS) and the summer University of the Polisario Front’s cadres, it should be recalled.

Before that the Saharawi Prime Minister and the delegation accompanying him visited the centre of the Algerian National archive, where they attended a conference under the theme "the memory of a Nation" animated by the director of the Centre, Abdelmajid Chikhi.

The Saharawi delegation will also meet with the different Algerian political parties, it was recalled.(SPS)

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/REPRESSION

A Saharawi citizen paralysed because of tortures

El Aaiun (occupied territories), 10/07/2006 (SPS) Ali Salem Haddi, the elder brother of the Saharawi political prisoner, Ahmed Mahmoud Heddi El Kainan, remains paralysed because of the torture he was subjected to by the Moroccan forces of repression, reported a trustworthy source.

Mr. Ali Salem, who wanted to ask about his brother recently arrested by the Moroccan police, was "brutally tortured" and wounded in his foot in the same police station where his brother is detained in the "24 November" street in the occupied city of El Aaiun, it was indicated.

Doctors recommended the evacuation of the victim to specialise hospital to have an urgent chirurgical intervention because of his serious state, his family declared.

On another hand, the occupied city of Smara is the theatre of demonstrations since Saturday. Demonstrators raised the Saharawi flag in the neighbourhood of "Ahmed Laroussi" and distributed tracts asking for the "immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Moroccan occupation from the Western Sahara".

In Tan Tan (south of Morocco), the Saharawi citizen raised the Saharawi flags in the neighbourhood of "Sidi Mohamed Dedech". The Moroccan authorities quickly came to move the flags and intervened against demonstrators. (SPS)

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