SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Strasbourg, 12/02/2004 (SPS) European Parliament (EP) called Morocco to conform to UN Security Council's resolution 1495/2003 by liberating prisoners of war and drawing the light upon the fate of more than 500 persons reported disappeared in Western Sahara since the beginning of Moroccan invasion to
the Saharawi territory in 1975.

In a resolution adopted on Tuesday, the EP ''asks the chairmanship, to the Commission and to State members (to EU) to actively continue their efforts with all concerned parties and within competent organisations of UN for the release of the Moroccan POW's held by Polisario Front and the release
of the Saharawi POW's held by Morocco''.

It also called Morocco and Polisario Front ''to continue cooperating with the international committee of the Red Cross to determine the fate of the missing persons of whom we have no news since the beginning of the conflict, in conformity with resolution 1495 (2003) of the UN Security Council and to the repeated appeals of international community''.

It should be recalled that Polisario Front talks about more than 150 Saharawi POWs held by Morocco, while the Association of the Saharawi Families of prisoners and disappeared (AFAPREDESA) demands the determination of the fate of more than 500 disappeared since the beginning of the conflict. (SPS)

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A German delegation chaired by the MEP Kessler, pay a visit to SADR

Tifariti (liberated territories), 12/02/2004 (SPS) a delegation of the German Committee of Support in Thuernguen , ''Salma'', during a visit in SADR?s liberated territories, plans to receive some Saharawi children during the coming summer holidays, declared the President of the association, the MEP, Margot Kessler, to SPS.

The delegation, composed of politicians and German social society figures, visited Tifariti region (liberated territories) after having visited different Saharawi refugees' camps.

''Saharawi children will be warmly received within us'', indicated Mrs. Kessler, adding that ''the city of Bleichrode (Thuernguen state) will be in charge of the programme children, who will also be received within German families to make contacts with their kids''.

Mrs. Kessler, member of German Social Democrat Party (SPD), in power, and President the European Parliament Intergroup ''peace for Saharawi People'', had declared last January, the foundation of the committee, Salma, of support to Saharawi people in Thuernguen.

The committee will get down to « "introduce more and more the fair case of Saharawi People to the German public opinion", emphasised the press release announcing the creation of the committee. (SPS)

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