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SPS The Saharawi Government denies that Al Qaïda "recruits members of Polisario Front" in the North of Mauritania 20.04.05
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Bir Lehlu, 20/04/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Government opposed "a formal denial" to "allegations" spread by the Moron newspaper, "Aujourd'hui le Maroc", according to which Al Qaïda "recruits of Polisario Front" in the North of Mauritania.
"The Government of the Saharawi Republic denies, in the most formal manner, such allegations that it considers as slanderous, grotesque and arbitrary" (...) "spread by a Moroccan newspaper, "Aujourd'hui le Maroc", whose relations with the Moroccan Ministry of Interior are well-known", affirmed the Saharawi Minister of Information, Sid Ahmed Batal, in a written statement SPS received.
"Morocco, put to the test by the Saharawi peaceful resistance of the Saharawi populations in the occupied zones and in the South of Morocco, and in front of the rejection by the international community to approve the colonial fait accompli in the Western Sahara colonial make use, as usual, to intoxication, baseness and incredible lies to divert the attention from the crimes, which it is perpetrating against the Saharawi people and hide its immobility", the Saharawi Minister said.
"Morocco should first clear out in front of its door instead of trying to throw discredit and anathema on its neighbours", he concluded. (SPS)
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SPS Mbeiki: "The international legality must be implemented and decolonise the Western Sahara"
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Pretoria, 20/04/2006 (SPS) The President of the South Africa, Tabo Mbeiki, asked for the "implementation of the international legality and decolonise the Western Sahara" and estimated that Africa can not progress as long as one of its Member States "remains under the colonial yoke and the rights of its people to freedom and to existence are violated".
"We are in front of a traditional conflict of the colonial era, which languished to much and which should have been resolved long ago. The international legality must be implemented and the Western Sahara decolonised via enabling the people of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic to exercise their legitimate right to self!-determination", Mr. Mbeiki underlined during a reception he offered to the Saharawi Ambassador to South Africa on Wednesday in Pretoria.
"In South Africa and in the Western Sahara we are waging the same struggle and allow me, Excellency, Mister Ambassador to reaffirm you that your cause is also ours", he said.
"It is completely unthinkable to evoke any kind of progress in Africa while one of the regions of the continent, mainly the Western Sahara, remains under the colonial yoke"; the South African President added.
"South Africa, faithful to the principle of the international law, will save no effort to hasten the process that should enable the Saharawi people to enjoy their right to self-determination and to recover their sovereignty and freedom", Mr. Mbeiki concluded during the ceremony at the South African Presidency. (SPS)
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SPS Conference of solidarity with the Saharawi people Friday in Madrid
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Madrid, 20/04/2006 (SPS) A Conference of solidarity with the Saharawi people and of support to self-determination and independence will take place on Friday in Madrid, reported the Algerian Press Agency, APS.
The conference will be marked by an intervention by the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, it was confirmed by the Saharawi delegation in Spain, the same source said.
Representative of the Spanish and European movement of solidarity will participate to this meeting, including the Euro-Parliament, Karin Scheele, President of the European Parliament’s intergroup, ''Peace for the Saharawi people''.
The evolution of the conflict of the Western Sahara and the report the UN’s Secretary General, Kofi Annan, is expected to present, in the end of April, to the UN’s Security Council, will be the main subject of this conference.
The conference is organised by the Task Force (European Coordination of the Association of support), the State Coordination of the Spanish Associations of solidarity of the Saharawi people (CEAS-Sahara) and the Federation of Spanish Institutions of solidarity with the Saharawi people (FEDISSAH).
On another hand, a rally will be organised on Saturday afternoon in front of the Embassy of Morocco in Madrid to demand the respect of the human rights in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and the implementation f the UN’s resolutions on the conflict, indicated close sources to the CEAS-Sahara. (SPS)
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SPS Namibia asks for the respect of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
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Windhoek, 20/04/2006 (SPS) The Namibian Government asked for the "respect of the legitimate right of the Saharawi people to the self-determination and independence" and expressed its "preoccupation" about the human rights situation in the occupied zones of the Western Sahara by Morocco, according to Saharawi sources.
This position was expressed by the Namibian Prime Minister, Nahas Angula, who received the Saharawi Ambassador to Angola, Ahmed Salama, on Wednesday in Windhoek, who was also the envoy of the Saharawi President, Mohamed Abdelaziz, to his Namibian counterpart, HifiKepunye Lucas Puhamba, the same source indicated.
"The Namibian Government supports an independent Saharawi State and will support no solution unless it respects the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination", Mr. Angula affirmed. (SPS)
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