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Polisario Front celebrates its 32nd anniversary in the liberated territories
19.05.05




Tifariti, 19/05/2005 (SPS) Polisario Front announced that it will celebrate its 32nd anniversary (May the 20th 1973) in Tifariti, (liberated territories of SADR). Hundreds of foreign guests were invited, among whom the new South African Ambassador, who will present his letters of credits to the Saharawi President in the liberated city of Tifariti, it was indicated.

In the two day programme of the event a peaceful demonstration in front of the Moroccan wall, the longest world wide, which divides Western Sahara and its people since 1980? A military building filled with millions antipersonnel mines and defended by soldiers fully armed, said the organisers.
 
The same sources indicated that a school will be inaugurated on Friday in Bir Lehlu (East Western Sahara), which will bare the name of the late Spanish writers, José Ramon Diego Aguirre. A former Spanish officer and the first foreigner to bare the Saharawi honorific nationality. He wrote many interesting books on the conflict and the history of the Western Sahara, especially the one entitled "Spanish Sahara, the truth about a betrayal" (Kaydeda editions).

The foreign guests are awaited for on Friday afternoon in Tifariti where they will attend, on Saturday morning, to military manoeuvres organised by the 2nd, 4th and 5th Saharawi military regions. They will also attend the ceremony of the launching of the building of civil houses that will be built in Tifariti after the destruction of the city by Moroccan air forces three successive times.

The organisers also planed for artistic and cultural shows during these two days celebration in the liberated territories to which thousands Saharawi civilians, coming from Saharawi refugees camps and from neighbouring liberated zones, will participate. (SPS)
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Mr. Sidati exhorts the EU to exclude Saharawi offshore of the fishing accords with Morocco




Brussels, 19/05/2005 (SPS) Saharawi Minister Delegated to Europe, Mohamed Sidati, exhorted the European Union (EU) to exclude Saharawi offshore of the fishing accords the EU is negotiating with Morocco. He considered that "the tactic of Morocco to maintain its illegal occupation of Western Sahara consists of including the territorial waters of Western Sahara in the ‘areas of fishing under Moroccan control’ in order to implicate European interests in its military illegal occupation".
 
In a letter addressed to Mr. Joseph Borg, Commissioner of the Direction of fisheries and Maritime Affairs of the European Committee, the Minister recalled that Western Sahara is a non-self-governing territory, which is awaiting a process of decolonisation under the auspices of the United Nations through its Mission on the ground (MINURSO).

He put forward "the UN convention for the rights on seas (UNCLOS, Morocco signed) as well as the legal opinion (January 2002) of the UN vice Secretary General for legal affairs concerning the Natural resources in Western Sahara. He stressed the fact that "Morocco was unable to prove a single right on the offshore of Western Sahara since 1976".

To Mr. Sidati, the European Commission (EC) must show respect to the international legality and adopt a similar position to the USA Government’s. The USA Trade Representative, Mr. Robert Zoellick, having declared in July 2004 that the USA-Morocco Free Trade accords “covers trade with and investment in the territory of Morocco as recognized by the United States, which does not currently include the Western Sahara ".

"Regarding the illegal or « technical » antecedents that spoiled the fishing accords between the EC and Morocco during the 80ies and 90ies, we would like to exhort the EC to full respect the internationally recognised borders between the kingdom of Morocco and Western Sahara, this is to say the parallel 27º 40’, - clearly used by the United Nations in theory and in practice. And we ask it to use all its political weight to exclude Western Sahara’s waters and offshore of any accords that includes European ships which risk to do further damage to Saharawi fishing resources already in critical situation", the Minister said in his letter. (SPS)

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