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SPS Arrival of the President of the Republic to Addis-Ababa in a visit to Ethiopia 13.05.05
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Addis-Ababa, 13/05/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, arrived Saturday to Addis-Ababa in a work visit in Ethiopia, declared a pres release publicised by the Presidency, of which SPS received a copy.
THe Head of the Saharawi State is accompanied by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affair, Saharawi Ambassador to Algiers, Mohamed Yeslem Beissat, and the Saharawi Ambassador to Kenya, Hamdi Beiha, the press release stressed.
President Abdelaziz had attended, Friday in Kampala, the investiture ceremony of the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, who have won his country’s presidential elections for the third consecutive time.
During a visit he paid to President Abdelaziz in his residency in Kampala, President Museveni had reaffirmed, "the principled support" of his country to "the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and independence and also to the international legality in Africa and around the world", it was indicate by a source from the Saharawi presidential delegation.
During his sojourn in Uganda, Mr. Abdelaziz met with many Heads of States and Governments in addition to Ministers who attended the ceremony of investiture, including Mr. Tabo Mbeiki, President of South Africa, Mr. Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya, Mr. Pierre Nkurinzinza, President of Burundi, Mr. Paul kagame, President of Rwanda, Mr. Robert Mougabé, President of Zimbabwe, Mr. Jakaya Kilwete, President of Tanzania, Mr. Salva Kiir, Vice-President of Sudan, Mr. Abdelaziz Ziari, Algerian Minister in Charge for the Relations with Parliament, and Mr. Abdelkader Messahel, Algerian Minister delegated for Foreign Affairs, The same source said.
These meetings tackled, "the last developments of the conflict of the Western Sahara on the light of the report recently presented by the UN’s Secretary General, Kofi Annan, the radicalisation of the Saharawi uprising of independence in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and the campaigns of repression and terror led by the Moroccan colonial authorities in the same occupied zones", the same source indicated. (SPS)
010/090/100/TRD 131016 May 06 SPS
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SPS Aminetou Haidar’s visit to Spain still ongoing
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Barcelona, 13/05/2006 (SPS) Mrs. Aminetou Haidar, famous Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political prisoner, arrived on Thursday to Catalonia within the framework of a visit that will lead her to many Spanish autonomous regions, SPS remarked.
"We desired, since a long time ago, to hear your voice and to receive you among us. You have to bear in mind that we support the Saharawi people’s right o self-determination through a free, regular and transparent referendum under the auspices of the UN", declared the President of the Catalonian Parliament, Ernest Benach, addressing Mrs. Haidar, he received at the seat of his institution with the presence of many Parliament members of the Spanish Socialist Party and Popular Party.
The Saharawi ex-political prisoner, recently released from prison last January, informed her interlocutors on the "tragedy of the Saharawi people under occupation" and asked for "more political and Medias support to the Saharawi civil population submitted to repression, terror and security siege in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara".
Mrs. Haidar, who came from Madrid where she lately received the "Juan Maria Brandes" Price of the Defence of the right to exile and solidarity with refugees that was offered to her by the Spanish Committee for the Assistance to the Refugees (CEAR), was also received by the President of the Catalonian Agency for Cooperation, David Minovc, and by the Coordinator of the Catalonian solidarity with the Saharawi people, Oriol Fort, in addition to Catalonian sympathisers with the Saharawi cause.
39 years old and mother to two children, Mrs. Haidar was arrested for the first time in 1987 for having participated in a peaceful demonstration against the Moroccan illegal occupation of the Western Sahara at a moment when a UN’s ad-hoc Committee was visiting the territory.
She disappeared for 4 years in the Moroccan secret detention camps, undergoing all kinds of torture before been released in 1991. She was arrested many times because of her peaceful activities for the defence of the human rights in the Western Sahara, which is submitted to the Moroccan military occupation and to a permanent medias and security siege since 1975.
Release last January the 17th 2006 from the notorious Moroccan prison the Carcel Negra (Black Jail) in El Aaiun after she served a 7 months sentence, Mrs. Aminetou Haidar participated to many activities such as to the Committee of Coordination of the victims of forced disappearance and detention in the Western Sahara in 1994, the Committee for the release of Sidi Mohamed Deddech and all Saharawi detainees in 2002, an the Committee for the release of Ali Salem Tamek and all the Saharawi political prisoners in 2003.
Her appeal from the Carcel Negra on the occasion of the International Day against torture is impossible to forget:"...It is a miracle that I am still alive, because I am physically exhausted as a woman by all these years of forced disappearance and imprisonment, so much torture and repression. But I am still here and I will continue to fight with all my energy knowing that you are there struggling with us. I am convinced of this as I am convinced of the existence of the sea that is awaiting for me some 25 kilometres, and as I am convinced that these Saharawi children refugees in Algeria will come back to their free land. I am even more convinced of your support and of the tender sight of my own children, Mohamed and Hayat for whom I am badly missing". (SPS)
010/090/000/TRD 131240 May 06 SPS
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SPS Spanish humanitarian aid for the Saharawi people arrive to Oran
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Oran, 13/05/2006 (SPS) The Spanish vessel "Ciudad Salamanca", which is transporting humanitarian aid for the Saharawi refugees who were touched by inundation last February, arrived on Friday in the port of Oran (Algeria).
According to sources from the Saharawi Red Crescent, this operation was initiated by the Spanish "Association of the Friends of the Saharawi People".
Composed of 32 trucks, this humanitarian aid will be directed to the Saharawi refugee camps, the same source added.
The inundations, which touched the Saharawi refugee camps last February cause considerable damages, it should be recalled. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 131019 mai 06 SPS
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SPS Ethiopia for the decolonisation of the Western Sahara through a self-determination referendum
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Addis-Ababa, 13/05/2006 (SPS) Mr. Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime minister, reiterated the support of his country to the Saharawi Republic (SADR) and its position of principle in favour of a just solution to "the last case of decolonisation in Africa" (Western Sahara) that must "respect the Saharawi people’s inalienable right to self-determination through a free and democratic referendum", indicated a Saharawi diplomatic source.
Mr. Zenawi was speaking during his meeting, Saturday at the seat of the Ethiopian presidency, with the President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, who is undertaking a work visit to Ethiopia starting from this Saturday morning, indicated a source from the Saharawi presidential delegation.
"The relations between the Saharawi Republic and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the situation in the African continent and in the world were the subject of the one hour meeting" between the two parties, the same source indicated, noting that the encounter was characterised by "a total agreement of the two parties in their points of views".
The President of the Republic informed his interlocutor about the last developments of the conflict that opposes his country to Morocco, stressing on the Saharawi "heroic peaceful resistance" in the occupied zones of the Western Sahara, as well as the "brutal repression and violations, by the Moroccan colonial authorities, of the fundamental freedoms and human rights of the Saharawi citizens", the same source said.
The two men also discussed the Morocco-Saharawi conflict at the level of the UN and African Union, characterised by "the dilatory and intransigent manoeuvres of the Moroccan Government concerning the enforcement of the UN’s resolutions", it was added.
The meeting was attended by the Saharawi Ambassador to the African Union and Ethiopia, Mr. Breika Lehbib and the Councillor at the President, Abdati Breika. (SPS)
010/090/100/TRD 131421 May 06 SPS
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SPS CNASPS denounces "torture" and "humiliation" of the Saharawi population in the occupied territories
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Algiers, 13/05/2006 (SPS) The Algerian National Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS) denounced, on Fray, the fact that the Saharawi population continues to "be subjected to torture, humiliation and to arbitrary detention and incarceration" in the eve of the visit of the UN’s Committee for Human Rights Representatives to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
CNASPS also regretted, in a press release, "the stubbornness" of Morocco "to divert the UN will that is clearly expressed in the different resolutions of the UN’s General Assembly".
The Committee wondered about the "incoherence" and "irresponsibility" of the Moroccan Government, "which is denying, through shameful volt face, the accords that were publicly and officially signed with the Polisario Front".
On another hand, CNASPS hailed the Saharawi popular resistance in the occupied territories and the Saharawi people attachment to their dignity, rights and democracy.
The Algerian Committee also condemned,” any irresponsible silence, any accomplice inaction, and any non intervention, including by the UN" towards putting an end to the human rights violations in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
In this respect, the CNASPS recalled the historical responsibility of the UN’s Security Council in maintaining peace, so as to "avoid the irreparable". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 131029 May 06 SPS
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SPS The family of a Saharawi political prisoner call on international NGOs to save his life
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 13/05/2006 (SPS) The family of the Saharawi political prisoner, Abdallahi Ali Salem Mohamed Salem Hasan, called, Saturday, on all international human rights organisations to "save the life of their son who is undertaking a hunger strike for more than 6 weeks so far" in the Moroccan prison of Ait Melloul.
"We denounce the practices exercised against our son by the agents of the prison of Ait Melloul and the employees of the hospital of Inzengan during his sojourn, having denied us the right to visit him, despite his critic state of health", the family wrote in a press release, of which SPS received a copy.
"We consider the Moroccan Government as accountable of the consequences that may result from this hunger strike on the health of our son", the same source added.
The family of Abdallahi Ali Salem Mohamed Salem Hasan launched "an urgent appeal" to the international community and international human rights organisation to "save the life" of their son in hunger strike since the end of last March.
President Mohamed Abdelaziz had asked Monday for the intervention of the UN’s Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to " to save the life of the Saharawi citizen, Abdallahi Ali Salem Mohamed Salem Hasan, the 26 years old youth who was arrested last February the 15th 206 in El Aaiun and transferred to the prison of Ait Melloul in the Moroccan city of Agadir”, it should be recalled.
The Saharawi President asked anew for an "urgent intervention" of the UN so as to "protect the Saharawi population in the occupied territories" of the Western Sahara and compel Morocco "to release the 14 Saharawi political prisoners still in the occupant custody". (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 131730 May 06 SPS
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