SPS SADR/SPAIN/DEMONSTRATION
The associations of solidarity
with the Saharawi people calls for a demonstration this Saturday in
Madrid
12.11.04
Madrid, 12/11/2004 (SPS) The
Spanish associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people agreed to
gather this Saturday in Madrid for a big demonstration to call the
Spanish Government to assume its historical responsibility towards the
Saharawi people and to call the UN to organise a referendum on
self-determination for the Saharawi people, so as to definitively close
this still pending decolonisation dossier.
The demonstration will start at 12 from "La plaza Atocha" heading for
the seat of the Spanish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, where the
demonstrators will read a manifesto and a letter addressed to
Zapatero's Government, indicated the organisers.
The participants also want to demand from Morocco, through their
Government, to respect its engagements with the UN and the
international community, as well as to respect the human rights in the
Saharawi territories under Moroccan military occupation.
The demonstration, which coincides with the 29th anniversary of the
Madrid's Accords which were the starting point of the Moroccan military
occupation of the Saharawi territory, will take place under the theme
"Sahara, 30 years are enough. No more betrayal", it was indicated.
"We are in a critical moment of the conflict. We will get out to the
streets to show that we, Spanish citizens, are backing the Saharawi
people", declared the President of the Coordination of the Associations
of Solidarity with the Saharawi people, José Taboada, as quoted
by the Spanish newspaper, El Mondo, in its Thursday's edition.
On its part, the Plat Form of the Spanish writers, "Writers for the
Sahara", had launched an appeal to the world of culture to "support
this initiative and amplify the invitation in all the society", added
the organisers. (SPS)
SPS OCCUPIED
TERRITORIES/NGO Creation of a human rights NGO
in Western Sahara
El Aaiun (occupied territories),
12/11/2004 (SPS) "The Local Committee of Support to the International
Campaign for the protection of Human rights in Western Sahara" is the
name chosen by tens of Saharawi lawyers, trade unionists and former
political prisoners in occupied territories for this non-governmental
organisation they created so as to "protect the Saharawi civil
population subjected to repression in Western Sahara and in Morocco".
The constitution of the NGO was declared in El Aaiun, occupied capital
of Western Sahara, on November the 8th in a communiqué
publicised the same day.
Chaired by the former Saharawi political prisoner, Ali Salem Tamek, the
Bureau of the Committee is based in El Aaiun and is composed by 13
members, it was indicated.
"The Committee launch an appeal to the most active sectors of the
Saharawi society, to all democrats and all human rights organisations
to support the International Campaign of solidarity with Saharawi human
rights activists and so as to put an end to Moroccan authorities'
systematic repression they are subjected to", underlined the
communiqué.
Further, the text denounces "illegal confinement, arbitrary detention,
iniquitous trials, abusive dismissal, exclusion, confiscation of
passports and restrictions on the fundamental freedoms ". (SPS)
SPS SADR/USA/VISIT The President of the Republic
receives the American Senator, James M. Inhofe
Chahid El Hafed, 12/11/2004
(SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, received,
Friday at the Presidency, the American Senator, James M. Inhofe,
(Republican Party), who is paying a brief visit to the SADR.
Besides the staff of the Senator, the meeting between the two parts was
attended by the members of the Saharawi National Secretariat, the
highest political body of Polisario Front and SADR.
"As a friend to the Saharawi people, I came here to get a clear idea on
the situation of your people and its socio-cultural bodies", said the
Senator of the State of Oklahoma, during a public meeting organised on
his honour in the Daira of Tifariti.
First elected to the American Senate in 1994, M. Inhofe, one of the
most imminent republican figures, is the Chairman of the Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee and member to the Senate Armed
Services Committee and Indian Affairs Committee. (SPS)
SPS SADR/SPAIN An official meeting between
President Abdelaziz and the Head of the Spanish Government on November
the 26th in Madrid
Madrid, 12/11/2004 (SPS) The
President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, will meet this November
the 26 in Madrid with the Head of the Spanish Government, José
Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, announced a Spanish official source quoted by
Spanish Press Agency, EFE.
This meeting, the first between the two Heads of States, comes within
the framework of "the willingness of the (Spanish) Government to
resolve the problem" of Western Sahara, indicated the same source.
The settlement of the conflict in Western Sahara is considered by the
Spanish executive as "vital for the interests of Spain and for the
progress in the (process) of integration in the Maghreb", underlined
the agency.
The Spanish Government is "actively implicated" in the search for a
solution that is conform to the international legality, in which the UN
plays a fundamental role, asserted the source EFE quoted.
"Substantially, the Government supports the UN Security Council's
resolution 1541, approved last April, and which reiterated the support
to the Baker Plan and stressed on the need of an accord between the two
parties", emphasised the Spanish agency.
The meeting between the two Heads of States will take place after the
demonstration that will be organised this Saturday by the Coordination
of the Spanish Associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people in
Madrid, and which aims at denouncing the Madrid's Accords of 1975,
which were the starting point of the Moroccan colonisation of Western
Sahara. (SPS)
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