SPS SADR/SYRIA/SOLIDARITY The President of the Republic
receives the President of the Arab Committee of solidarity with the
Saharawi people
19.01.05
Chahid El Hafed, 19/01/05 (SPS)
The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, received Wednesday
the President of the Arab Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi
people, Mr. Mahmoud Marai, at the presidential Palace, within the
framework of a visit the latter is undertaking to the Saharawi
refugees' camps and liberated territories of SADR.
Mr. Mahmoud Marai declared to SPS that this visit to SADR allowed him
to closely have an idea on the "inhuman conditions in which the
Saharawi Arab people are living", what requires according to the same
source "an effort of solidarity and support from the Arab civil society
and Arab human rights NGOs, as well as a particular attention from the
Arab League", which must "contribute to enforce the international law,
international human rights conventions and Arab human rights Charter,
which all reaffirm Saharawi Arab people's right to self-determination
and freedom".
"We call the international community to pressure Morocco so as to
compel it conform to the international legality and to the
international human rights declarations and to the pertinent UN's
resolutions", he stressed.
Mr. Marai also underlined Saharawi people inalienable right to "freely
determine their future through a fair and free referendum".
"Our visit to the Saharawi refugees' camps confirmed our determination
to support and to defend Saharawi Arab people's right to
self-determination. Thus we call the Arab civil society to provide all
necessary material, humanitarian and social help as well as assistance
to this brother people so long abandoned by its Arab brothers, and that
to allow it have a dignified and free life", also underlined Mr. Marai.
A group of Arab intellectuals announced last September 2004 the
constitution of "the Committee of support to Saharawi people" to back
Saharawi legitimate right to self-determination and independence,
"conforming to UN Security Council's pertinent resolutions", it should
be recalled.
The first Arab committee, which was thus constituted in Beirut, also
plans "to strengthen the ties between the Saharawi Arab people and
their nation via the cultural fields that can lead to this goal".
The Committee gathers Arab intellectuals, Universities' professors,
lawyers, journalists and writers. (SPS)
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