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SPS Saharawi Parliament indignant by the statements of Mr. Josep Antoni Duran Lleida that "contradict the international legality" 19.02.06
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Chahid El Hafed, 19/02/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Parliament expressed its indignation about the statements, that are "non sense and contradicting to the international legality", which were recently declared by Mr. Josep Antoni Duran Lleida, the Spokesperson of the Spanish Party, "Convergencia i Unión", to the Spanish Congress of deputies, affirmed Mrs. Maalouma Larabas, in charge of the Saharawi National Council’s Foreign Relations (Parliament).
In a written declaration in reaction to M. Josep Antoni Duran Lleida’s statements publicised by Spanish Press Agency, Europa Press, Mrs. Larabas asserted that her Parliament "is indignant about these statements that are contradictory to the international legality, contest the principle of self-determination for Saharawi people as recommended by the International Court of Justice’s verdict of October the 16th 1975 and as planed for in the UN’s settlement Plan of 1991 and in the Peace Plan for the elf-determination of the people of Western Sahara, unanimously approved by the UN’s Security Council in its resolution 1495".
"Of which realism is Mr. Josep Antoni Duran Lleida speaking? Should we oppose law and international legality and violate human rights and the principles of the UN’s Charter to be realist as Mr. Deputy wants?", wondered Mrs. Larabas, underlining that Mr. Duran Lleida "would have really been realist if he had been firm and clear in defending Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, and not the opposite".
"W were expecting, from Mr. Duran Lleida, to be more realistic by demanding the respect of Saharawi citizens’ human rights, which are violated by the Moroccan Government in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and South of Morocco. And we were expecting him to be clear and firm concerning the necessity of the opening of the sealed territories of Western Sahara to the independent foreign observers, including Spanish Parliamentarians and international press", she said.
The Saharawi Parliamentarian further underlined "that the Moroccan project of autonomy is a mere attempt aimed to bypass the Saharawi people’s inalienable right to self-determination, as it was the case of the shameful Madrid’s Accords of 1975", which were not only the cause of 30 years of Saharawi people sufferings, but also, "30 years of shame and dishonour to the Spanish Government, which has abandoned Western Sahara to another illegal and bloody occupation", she deplored.
On another hand, Mrs. Maalouma reiterated "the attachment of the Saharawi people and Parliament to the self-determination and freedom through the most existing democratic way, mainly through a free and just referendum organised and supervised by the United Nations on the basis of the UN’s Security Council’s resolution 1495 or the initial settlement plan of 1991 and the Houston Accords of 1997".
"Any other attempt of resolving the conflict out of the mentioned framework, no matter what its name or source are, is only a waste of time for the two peoples, Saharawi and Moroccan, and will only endanger the stability and peace of the whole region", Mrs. Maalouma Larabas in her statement. (SPS)
060/090/000 191330 Feb 06 SPS
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SPS Spain must support the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination, President Abdelaziz declares
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Chahid El Hafed, 19/02/2006 (SPS) Spain "must support the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and condemn human rights violations committed by Morocco in the occupied territories of Western Sahara", declared the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, in an interview to the Spanish monthly newspaper, "Mundo negro".
Mr. Abdelaziz, estimated that it is Spain’s responsibility, as far as the administrating power of Western Sahara, "to clearly and openly support Saharawi people’s right to self-determination", stressing that the latter "must not be a change money between Spain and its southern neighbour".
"As long as Saharawi people’s inalienable right to self-determination is not realised, this problem will continue to disturb the consciousness of Spain in addition of being a source of bad reputation for the Spanish State at the international level", the Saharawi President underlined, in the Spanish newspaper’s February’s edition.
Mr. Abdelaziz also indicated that the uprising of independence in the occupied territories of Western Sahara generated the opening of a debate even inside Morocco that denounced the repression committed against the Saharawis.
Concerning the reaction of Morocco after the unilateral release by the Polisario Front of the last Moroccan prisoners of war, President Abdelaziz deplored that Rabat did not reciprocated this gesture, what confirmed the Saharawi position on the international scene.
Regarding the silence of the UN about the Moroccan repression against the Saharawi civilians in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, Mr. Abdelaziz recalled that the UN has promised, since 1991, to organised a self-determination referendum, which was renewed in 1997 after the arrival of Mr. James Baker.
"The most important for us is the holding of a free and democratic self-determination referendum, which includes independence as one of its options, with international guarantees", Mr. Abdelaziz concluded. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 191833 Feb 06 SPS
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