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SPS Creation of an Algerian Committee of support to Saharawi people in France 12.12.05
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Paris, 12/12/2005 (SPS) Associations representing the Algerian community
in the Ile de France constituted a Committee of support to the Saharawi people
and called, in a statement after a meeting organised on Sunday after noon in the
Algerian Cultural Centre (CCA) in Paris, to "a just, prompt and lasting
settlement to the question of Western Sahara", Algerian Press Service, APS,
reported.
Having organised this meeting to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the
Algerian demonstrations of December the 11th 1960, with the participation of
Algerian Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS) and a
Saharawi delegation chaired by Polisario Front’s Representative in France, the
members of the Committee expressed their "indefectible and constant support to
the Saharawi people".
They reiterated their "attachment to a just, prompt and lasting settlement to
the question of Western Sahara, conforming with the international legality, in
which peoples’ right to self-governance finds its full expression thanks to the
organisation of free and regular referendum".
They also called on the UN’s Security Council to "work for the acceptance and
enforcement of the UN’s Peace Plan for the self-determination of the people of
Western Sahara, Baker Plan, and the resolution 1495, unanimously adopted by the
members of the Council last July the 31st 2003".
The participants to the meeting and the members of the Committee called ion the
international community to "continue supporting the Saharawi cause as a question
of decolonisation, and to mobilise in favour of the self-determination for the
Saharawi people", and addressed an appeal to humanitarian organisms to
"intensify their help and assistance in favour of Saharawi refugees".
The Committee also expressed its "deep anxiety" and "concern about the human
rights’ violations in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, aimed at
suppressing Saharawi people’s aspiration to exercise their legitimate right to
self-determination".
They deplored "the negative and obstructionist attitude of the Moroccan colonial
authorities, which is keeping with its repressive campaigns of systematic
arrests and abductions of all those who sympathise with the Polisario Front in
the occupied territories, despite the international communities appeals". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 121412 dec 05 SPS
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SPS Algerian associations organise a meeting of solidarity with the Saharawi people in the Ile de France
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Paris,
11/12/2005 (SPS) Representatives of a dozen Algerian associations based in the
Ile de France organised, on Sunday afternoon at the Algerian Cultural Centre (CCA)
in Paris, a meeting to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Algerian
demonstrations of December the 11th 1960 and express their solidarity with the
Saharawi people, who are struggling for 30 years for their right to
self-determination, Algerian Press Service, APS, reported.
An important audience was present to this encounter, which was animated by Mr.
Mahrez Lamari, President of the Algerian National Committee of solidarity with
the Saharawi people (CNASPS), accompanied with a delegation composed by members
of his Committee and representatives of the Algerian Ministry of Youth and
Sports, as well as Mr. Lachouri Rabah, a representative of the new Algerian
Committee of support to the Saharawi people in the Ile de France.
Mr. Sadafa Bahia, Polisario Front’s Representative to France accompanied with a
Saharawi deletion attended this meeting, in which the commemoration of the 45th
anniversary of the Algerian demonstrations of December the 11th 1960 was this
celebrated year with a view to support Saharawi people, who are struggling for
their right to self determination.
"December the 11th 1960, is an unforgettable day for the Algerian people for
more than a reason. The best way to commemorate it is to associate it to a
similar case of a people who are struggling for their self-determination", Mr.
Sadafa underlined.
Recalling the importance and the symbolism of the peaceful demonstrations of
December the 11th 1960, Mr. Mahrez indicated that Algerians "wherever they are
attached to the noble values of the revolution of the 1st of November 1954 and
impregnate with the sacrifices offered by a million and a half martyrs".
"We awfully are proud of the formidable movement of the national liberation that
impulsed, on an international level, a free and independent Africa" (...) "We
are also proud and satisfied that Algeria has openly defended Saharawi people’s
right to self-determination as it has done with all the other peoples around the
world", the President of the CNASPS added.
Mr. Lachouri Rabah, stressed on the historical consequences of the events of the
11 the of December 1960, an occasion that should be celebrated as a reference to
values for the future, as well as an occasion to express "all our solidarity and
support to the just struggle of the Saharawi people", he said.
The debate allowed Saharawis to express their solidarity with the Saharawi
people underlining the importance of redoubling this kinds of initiative.
Mr. Daoud Khadir, Representative of a Saharawi human rights’ association,
testified on the repression to which the Saharawi human rights activists are
subjected.
He indicated tat the trials of a dozen Saharawi human rights activists and
political prisoners, including Mrs. Aminetou Haidar, Ali Salem Tamek that "will
take place next Tuesday was postponed many times so as to hinder the presence of
international observers". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 121426 dec 05 SPS
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SPS SADR/SPAIN/HUMAN RIGHTS Spanish 2005 Human Rights’ Price attributed to Polisario Front
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Madrid,
12/12/2005 (SPS) The Spanish Human Rights Association (APDHE) of the Human
Rights Price of 2005 to the Polisario Front, the Association announced in a
letter it addressed to the President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed
Abdelaziz, of which SPS received a copy.
APDHE dedicated its International Price to Polisario Front, "for having
honourably represented the Saharawi people with courage for their struggle for
independence" and for "the solidarity it showed to the African citizens despite
the fact that you put your lives in dangers for the defence of human rights",
the letter stressed.
The ceremony of the reception of the Price will be organised during a dinner
offered this December the 15th 2005 in a hotel in Madrid, it was
indicated. (SPS)
020/090/100/TRD 121530 Déc 05 SPS
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