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OCCUPIED TERRTORIES/MOROCCO/RESISTANCE
From occupied city of El Aaiun a Saharawi NGO calls to the organisation of a referendum in Western Sahara
20.05.05




El Aaiun (occupied Capital), 27/04/2005 (SPS) Saharawi Committee for self-determination in Western Sahara called international community to oeuvre "towards the organisation of a just and transparent referendum, that is conform to UN resolution" for the settlement of the last decolonisation dossier in the African continent.

In a letter of congratulation addressed Thursday to the Saharawi people on the occasion of the celebrations that mark Polisario Front 32nd anniversary, the NGO, which was constituted last April the 25th by Saharawi human rights activists in occupied territories of the former Spanish colony, called " international community to oeuvre "towards the organisation of a just and transparent referendum, that is conform to UN resolution, for the settlement of the conflict. We firmly believe self-determination to be the only solution to definitively resolve the problem".

They also declared their determination to struggle "using all legitimate means in our possession to realise this goal and resolve the conflict in the region, been the direct concerned and victims of the situation".

On another hand, the activists congratulated "Saharawi people in refugees camps, territories under Moroccan occupation and all over the world" on the occasion of the celebration, in the liberated territory of SADR, Tifariti city, of the 32nd anniversary of Polisario Front (see about the celebrations: http://www.spsrasd.info/sps-e190505.html)

Saharawi Committee for self-determination in Western Sahara is an initiative that was launched last month, in occupied El Aaiun, by Saharawi activists following a call launched by Saharawi symbol of resistance, Sidi Mohamed Deddach, ex-political prisoner and RAFTO 2002 Human Rights Price  (see press release calling to the constitution of the Committee: http://www.spsrasd.info/sps-e270405.html#3). (SPS)

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LIBERATED TERRITORIES/DEMONSTRATION
An international demonstration claiming for the destruction of the Moroccan wall of shame in the Bir Lehlu region




Bir Lehlu (liberated territories), 20/05/2005 (SPS) international demonstration claiming for the destruction of the wall of shame, Morocco erected in Western Sahara, took place Friday in Chedmiya (Bir Lehlu region). Tens of European citizens, Saharawi NGOs and hundreds of Saharawi refugees coming from the nearby counties, participated to the demonstration.
 
"Let’s destroy the wall of shame", "Morocco: colonialist get out of Western Sahara", "5 millions mines in Western Sahara", are some of the slogans chanted in all languages by the participants.
 
The participants denounced "this crime against humanity", while gathering in a sit-in few hundreds Km of one of the hundreds Moroccan military bases built all along this 2700 Km military wall. They called the international community to pressure Morocco so as to destroy it.

It should be recalled that this is the 4th demonstration of its kind in less than two years. (SPS)

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RASD/SWEDEN/PARLIAMENT
Swedish Government considers self determination as the natural way to resolve Western Sahara conflict




Stockholm, 20/05/2005 (SPS) Swedish Foreign Affairs Minister, Laila Freivalds, declared that her country supports "a solution of the Western Sahara conflict according to international law". She further stressed that holding "a referendum is the natural way to self-determination and should be the fundamental basis for any solution to the conflict".

In her answer, today in the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen ), to Parliament's members (PM) questions during a debate on Western Sahara issue initiated by PM. Alice Åström (Vansterpartiet Party), Mrs. Freivalds stated that "the Swedish government pays special importance to a solution of the conflict according to international law”.

She added that "a referendum is the natural way to self-determination and should be the fundamental basis for any solution of the conflict in the future".

Thus, continued Mrs. Minister, Sweden regrets Moroccan rejection of the Peace Plan for self-determination for the people of Western Sahara, most known as the Baker Plan.
 
Mrs. Freivalds also affirmed that her country is convinced that “the European Union, more than ever, should play a more outspoken role in the Western Sahara conflict and support United Nations" efforts to resolve the issue peacefully.

Morocan actual rejection of all peaceful solutions to the conflict "is negative for the Saharawi people, for the whole region and for international security. The situation has even created serious
humanitarian problems Swedish government regards as utterly serious", said Mrs. Freivalds.

She then affirmed that her country works for “a quick improvement of the humanitarian situation" of the Saharawi people in the refugees' camps.
 
Asked by Mrs. Alice Åström about what Sweden can do to support the Saharawi Republic democratic institutions, Mrs. Minister underlined that Sweedish "standpoint is that the democratic development in the whole region is of great importance for the solution of the conflict. We have a fundamental will to support projects and efforts aiming at strengthening democracy". (SPS)

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