SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Brussels 13/09/2004 (SPS) Polisario Front and Saharawi people joined American people and the nations of the world to express "once again their deepest solidarity and sympathy with the families of those who lost their lives in those attacks, and with all victims of terrorism throughout the world".
         
In a statement by the Minister Delegate to Europe,  Mohammed Sidati, Polisario Front "which has always condemned all acts of terror", reiterated its "vehement denunciation of terrorism", that constitutes according to the Minister, "a horrendous onslaught on innocent people as well as on the sacred values of respect for human life and dignity, freedom and peace ".
          
"It is on these values that the Saharawi people, and their legitimate representative the Frente POLISARIO, have always drawn in their struggle against the Moroccan oppression and military occupation", added the statement, underlining that "for three decades, the Saharawi people have been affirming their will to attain, through peaceful means, their legitimate rights to self-determination and sovereignty".
         
This commitment to legitimate means and practice of struggle for peace and freedom, earned Polisario Front "the respect as a national liberation movement that has never been associated with any form of terrorism", he stressed.

Mr. Sidati emphasised on another hand that "backing the peaceful struggle of the Saharawi people for attaining their legitimate rights is inseparable from the fight against injustice, oppression and terrorism" of State Moroccan Government is adopting in its occupation of the Saharawi territory, emphasising that international solidarity with the Saharawi people and all the victims of terrorism "is also intrinsic to the defence of the ideals of justice, democracy and freedom that are upheld by all free nations".  (SPS)

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"The Baker Plan can not be modified", declares Mr. Moragas

Chahid El Hafed, 13/09/2004 (SPS) Spanish Popular Party's (PP) Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Moragas, declared that the Baker Plan II " can not be modified", asking Spanish socialist Government to "clarify its position" on Western Sahara conflict, he indicated Sunday to Spanish Medias.

"This road map (Baker Plan) can not stand basic modifications", he declared to Europa Press few time after his meeting with the Head of the Minurso, Alvaro De Soto, who was in a visit to the Saharawi refugees camps Sunday.

Mr. Moragas offered PP help so as De Soto can successfully lead his mission, which consists "necessarily in the implementation of the Baker Plan, based on international legality", he underlined, adding that Spanish society is "particularly sensitive to anything that concerns Saharawi people's future".

Mr. Moragas, who spent already his second day within Saharawis, was received today by Prime Minister, Abdelkader Taleb Oumar. He met before with the Ministers for defence, cooperation, education and of culture, respectively Mohamed Lemine Bouhali, Salek Baba, Bachir Moustapha and Mrs. Mariem Salek.

The envoy of the PP called Spanish executive "to maintain the position of former Presidents of Spanish Governments regarding Western Sahara". He warned that "the inaccuracy and improvisation" that marked the new socialist Government had "generated a great distrust and suspicion within Saharawi people".

Mr. Moragas, who visited many socio-economic institutions of SADR during these two days, was also received Monday by the Assembly of Chioukhs (old notables, formerly designated as chiefs of tribes by Spain) in the Wilaya of Aousserd, and who reminded their guest about the responsibility of Spain as former colonial power in the decolonisation of Western Sahara. (SPS)

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Spanish Congress will call its Government to an "urgent, fair and final" settlement of the Saharawi conflict

Madrid, 13/09/2004 (SPS) Spanish Congress of deputies will study Tuesday a motion, presented by all Parliamentary Groups, calling Zapatero's Government to remain "actively engaged" for an "urgent, fair and final" settlement to the Western Sahara conflict, within the framework of the United Nations.

''The deterioration of Saharawi people situation (…) and the repeated prorogations of the implementation of UN's resolutions (…) push us to claim for an active engagement of our country towards a solution to the Western Sahara dispute" that can guarantee Saharawi people "free self-determination conforming to UN's Charter and to Security Council's resolutions", underlined the motion.
 
''Been aware of the serious situation Saharawi people underwent and undergo currently because of the blockage of the peace process started under the auspices of the United Nations", the Parliamentary Groups recall that the second chamber of the Parliament had often asked the Government during the last period of its works for a clear position in favour of the Baker Plan II.

On another hand, the text put forward the responsibility of the Spanish State in the "decolonisation process" of Western Sahara, warning about the negative consequences that can result from any lack of commitment, in the resolution of the conflict, from Spain. They further underlined that any action of the Government should necessarily comes "within the framework of international legality".

In this respect, the Parliamentary groups called the Government to "undertake any political initiative that makes it possible to reach mutually acceptable accords by the two parties, and that respects the international legality and the Saharawi people right to self-determination".

On the humanitarian level, the groups called for a "substantial increase" of the humanitarian aid to Saharawi refugees and an improvement of the technical cooperation through "all available bodies of public cooperation and Spanish non governmental organisations of development".

This proposition that will be discussed Tuesday by the Spanish Congress of deputies, it should be recalled, was proposed by the intergroup "Peace for Saharawi People" at the end of the last period of the works of the congress, and was adopted by all Parliamentary groups, which decided to include this motion in the program of their first current plenary session. (SPS)

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