SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

Chahid El Hafed, 15/06/05 (SPS) The first groups of more than ten thousands Saharawi kid, registered in the programmes of holidays colonies, will start their departure to Spain, while the departure to other countries will start in the end of the month, indicated the coordinating Saharawi committee.

Spain will receive more than 9000 kid, while the remaining children will go to Italy, Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany and the USA, it was added.

The first group will travel in the evening from the airport of Tinduf towards Malaga in Andalusia, which will receive the biggest part of the youngsters, more than half the kids registered to travel to Spain.

More known in Spain as "Vacaciones en Paz" (Vacations for peace), this operation has always been organised for the last 15 years thanks to the finance of many Spanish organisations, institutions, and of many other countries in Europe and USA.

"The presence of this little Saharawi ambassadors in European countries help in arising the awareness on the international opinion on the fate Moroccan colonial is causing them after it invaded their territory to force them live in exile during the last 30 years", declared to SPS Mr. Mohammed Mouloud, SG of Saharawi Youth Union, in charge of the coordination of the programme. (SPS)

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Roma, 15/06/2005 (SPS) Hundreds persons, mainly members of Italian National and regional Parliaments, regional autonomous provinces officials and representatives of human rights NGOs organised Tuesday in front of the seat of the Italian Parliament in Roma (Plazza Montecitorio), a demonstration of solidarity with the victims of the Intifada in Occupied territories of Western Sahara.

Called together by Italian National Association of solidarity with the Saharawi people (ANSPS), the demonstrators raised placards calling for "a referendum on self-determination for the Saharawi", condemning "the brutal repression by Moroccan police and army against Saharawis" and demanding "the respect of human rights in Western Sahara".

The participants handed over a letter to the Italian Parliament’s Committee for Foreign Relations in which they denounce "the flagrant and intolerable human rights violations which were committed in front of the Minurso without the UN condemning them".

The letter asks for the dispatch of an Italian Parliamentary delegation and the designation of a Committee of investigation in occupied territories to "supervise the respect of human rights".

It called on the Italian Government to "pressure Morocco respect UN’s and UN’s Security Council’s decisions and organise a referendum".

"We addressed, last June the 14th, a letter to the Italian Minister for Foreign, Hon. Gianfranco Fini, asking for the Italian Government’s intervention in the conflict in a decisive manner so as to impose the respect of human rights and guarantee the implementation of the international", declared Parliament’s Member, Carlo Leone, who spoke on behalf of a group of Italian Parliament’s members, Saharawi National Radio indicated. (SPS)

010/090/666/TRD 151219 June 05 SPS

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OCCUPIED TERRITORIES/INTIFADA/SOLIDARITY
Italian Deputies and Senators calls on the UN to intervene for the protection of Saharawis in Western Sahara

Roma, 15/06/2005 (SPS) Many Italian Deputies and Senators called on the President of the Italian Council of Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, and his Minister of foreign Affairs, Gianfranco Fini, to oeuvre for the intervention of the UN in "the protection" of Saharawis "who are submitted to human tights" in Western Sahara, exercised by the Moroccan colonialism, reported a letter sent by this inter-parliamentary group.

"The signatories, deputies and senators, of the Parliamentary intergroup "Italy-Sahara", denounces the serious situation created these last weeks in El Aaiun, Smara, Dajla and Assa in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and in the South of Morocco, where Moroccan police submit the Saharawi population to a complete state of siege, only because it peacefully demonstrates to reject Moroccan colonialism and claim for human rights", the letter underlined.

In this respect, they also call on the UN’s Security Council to intervene, through the Minurso, in order to "protect" the Saharawi population, which is "hurt and terrorised simply because it defended its own democratic rights", and to "designate a new Special Representative to insure human rights".

On another hand, they claimed for the constitution of a committee for investigation in charge "of establishing the truth on the serious human rights violations committed by Morocco against the Saharawi population" and accelerate the organisation of a referendum on self-determination for the Saharawi people, been "the unique democratic way to put an end to this conflict which has so much languish in the region". (SPS)

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