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SPS Russia reaffirms its position regarding the political settlement of the Western Sahara conflict 13.04.05
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Moscow, 13/04/ 2006 (SPS) The Russian Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr. Sergueï Lavrov, reaffirmed on Wednesday, the position of principle of his country regarding the conflict of the Western Sahara, calling for a political settlement to the issue on the basis of the UN’s Security Council’s resolutions, mutually approved by the parties to the conflict, Morocco and Polisario Front.
During a phone call he had with the UN’s Secretary General’s Special Envoy to the Western Sahara, Mr. Peter Van Walsum, the Head of the Russian diplomacy also evoked the questions relative to the conflict, according to a press release publicised by the Ministry in its Russian Foreign Affairs website, reported by the Algerian Press Agency, APS. (SPS)
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SPS Two Saharawi NGOs calls on international organisations to protect Saharawi civilians
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Chahid El Hafed, 12/04/2006 (SPS) The Association of the Families of the Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeareds (AFAPREDESA) and the Union of the Saharawi Jurists (UJS) called, Wednesday, on the international human rights organisations to "protect the Saharawi civilians against the flagrant human rights violations, the Moroccan State is committing since its military invasion of the territory in 1975 so far", indicated a press release publicised by the Saharawi NGOs the same day, of which SPS received a copy.
AFAPREDESA and UJS launched an "urgent appeal" to all active human rights organisations and UN’s bodies, in particular the UN’s Secretary General’s Special Representative for Human Rights, Hina Jilani, to "dispatch international ad-hoc committees to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara so as "to investigate on the flagrant human rights violations perpetrated by the Moroccan State against the helpless Saharawi citizens and human rights activists in the occupied territories".
The two NGOs expressed their solidarity with the Saharawi political prisoners in the Moroccan jails, and considered the Moroccan Government "as accountable about the consequences that may result" of these human rights abuses.
They finally called on the Moroccan Government to "the immediate and unconditional release of all the Saharawi political prisoners, the 150 Saharawi prisoners of war and to account for more than 526 Saharawi disappeareds and open the occupied territories to international observers, Parliamentarians and press". (SPS)
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SPS Mr. Abdelaziz asks Spain for "a clear and courageous position"
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Smara (refugee camps), 13/04/2006(SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, asked Spain for "a clear and courageous position", recalling the former colonial power of the Non-Self-Governing territory that its "historical responsibility for what happens and what is happening now in the Western Sahara and to its people, is still in force".
During his intervention during a rally of solidarity between the Spanish peoples and the Saharawi people, organised, on Thursday, in the four Saharawi refugee camps and at the same time by the Spanish friends of the Saharawi people, the Head of the Saharawi State underlined that this initiative, to which 2000 Spanish visitors took part, is a "clear proof on the support to the Saharawi inalienable right to self-determination and to the UN’s resolutions".
The Saharawi population lost confidence in the UN after having waited for more than 15 years, and unanimously decided to start the popular uprising for freedom and independence, last May the 21st 2005", the Saharawi President said.
"From this platform we reaffirm our support to this initiative, which will continue until the national", he added.
Mr. Abdelaziz underlined, on another hand, that the Moroccan Government "instead of positively answering the Saharawi legitimate claims and accept the organisation of a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people", it opted for the physical elimination of Saharawis, such as "Martyrs Lembarki et Lekhlifi". (SPS)
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SPS A day of solidarity between the Saharawi people and the Spanish peoples in the Saharawi refugee camp of Smara
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Smara (refugee camps), 13/04/2006 (SPS) More than 2000 Spanish citizens, coming from the different Spanish autonomous regions, organised, this Thursday in the Saharawi refugee camp of Smara, a rally of solidarity with the Saharawi people and political prisoners in Moroccan custody.
The UN must "assume its responsibilities in the decolonisation of the Western Sahara", the organisers estimated during this rally organised in Smara, which was enhanced by the presence of the President of the Republic and members of the Saharawi political leadership.
To the participants, among whom there were European Parliamentarians, Mayors, local elected and councillors of municipalities, in addition to hundreds members o the civil society, "it is time for the international community to remedy to the injustice and put an end to he tragedy of the Saharawi people, which is languishing for more than 30 years so far".
The participants, who signed a manifest during this demonstration, called on the UN to oeuvre so as to "enable the Saharawi people enjoy their inalienable rights, as recognised by the international community, via a just and transparent self-determination referendum under the auspices of the UN".
They also asked the UN’s Security Council, the UN’s Secretary General and his Special Envoy for the Western Sahara as well as the European Parliament and European Government to "exercise pressures" on Morocco so as to compel is "conform to the international legality and accept the immediate implementation of the Baker Plan, conforming to the UN’s Security Council’s resolution 1495".
On another hand they called on Spain to "assume its historic, moral and legal responsibilities in the process of the decolonisation of the Western Sahara" and to play and "active and firm role as it has promised the Saharawis in 1974, when it was still the colonial power".
The signatories of the manifest finally condemned "the permanent repression" against the Saharawi citizens in the occupied zones, giving as an example the last events of the occupied city of Smara, in March the 26th and 27th, and the 17 Saharawi political prisoners, who appeared, with clear marks of torture, before the Moroccan colonial court in El Aaiun. (SPS)
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SPS An active Saharawi participation in one of the most important international oil meetings
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London, 13/04/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic actively participated to an international conference on Oil (PG 2006 Annual Convention), in Houston in the USA, from the April the 9th to the 12th, despite pressures exercised on the organisers, indicated Polisario Front’s representative to Australia, Mr. Kamel Fadel, reported the Algerian Press Agency, APS.
In a statement to the press, while he was coming back from Houston going to Sidney, Mr. Fadel underlined that "the Moroccan manoeuvres aimed to pressures the American Association of petroleum geologists, which is the organiser of this demonstration, did not succeed to exclude the Saharawi delegation from participating to this event".
"The US Secretary of State, Morocco tried to influence by all means, refused to take a position in favour of a party on the detriment to another", Mr. Fadel underlined.
M. Fadel said that the Moroccan services, "as usual, has tried to organise a demonstration of protest against the Saharawi participation, to which only ten persons has taken part".
The Saharawi Republic, has thus participated actively to this event, in particular by the opening of a stand, not far from the Moroccan, in the exposition organised in the margin of the event with the participation of 30 countries.
Talking about the last accords the Saharawi Republic has lately signed with 9 British oil companies; Mr. Fadel said that many international oil companies showed interest in cooperating with the Saharawi Republic in the domain of oil exploration after the independence of the Western Sahara. (SPS)
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