Chahid El Hafed, 20/05/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, warned against dangers of degradation of the situation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and consequently asked for the creation of "UN mechanisms" able to "protect Saharawis against the Moroccan repression" in order to prevent a slaughter of a whole people that are submitted to pitiless colonial occupation for more than 30 years.

Intervening during a ceremony of the commemoration of the 33rd anniversary of the starting of armed struggle, by Polisario Front, the Head of the State asked the UN Security Council to "undertake firm dispositions to guarantee the security of the lives of Saharawi citizens in the Saharawi zones under Moroccan occupation".

In this respect, the President of the Republic proposes to add to the competences of the Minurso to give it the mandate to treat this question" or to find other mechanisms that would guarantee the Saharawi people their fundamental rights".

To Mr. Abdelaziz, "it is inconceivable to ignore the international legality and be content with a Moroccan colonial proposition that aims to by-pass the sacred international law, the peoples right to independence and to consecrate a colonial illegal de facto on a part of the territory of the Saharawi Republic".

"It is impossible to treat equally the colonial de facto and the international legality, because of their opposition" (...) "as it is incredible that the economic interests prevail because of complicity with the colonial force and to sign an accord with it to rob the wealth of the peoples while closing the eyes in front of their sufferings", he regretted.

Mr. Abdelaziz, who expressed the wish that his people would not be forced to resume "armed resistance", noted that the Saharawis are "ready more than ever to exercise their right to armed struggle if necessary or if the obstacles erected by the Moroccan Government abort the peace efforts based on the respect of the international legality".

"The only democratic and definitive solution to the conflict of the Western Sahara, been a decolonisation conflict, is t give the word to the Saharawis by enabling them to exercise their legitimate right to self-determination through a free, regular and transparent referendum", he confirmed during the three days celebrations of the 33 anniversary of Saharawi armed struggle but also of the first anniversary of the Saharawi peaceful uprising (Intifada), that started May the 21^st of last year in addition to the 30 anniversary of the day of the Martyr that will be celebrated this June the 9^th.

"It is now imperative that the international community pay more and firmer efforts. The Moroccan Government can not continue for ever its intransigence with the compassion of France, to by-pas the international law", he underlined addressing Saharawi political cadres, who were organising a seminar on Polisario Front political experience. (SPS)

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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 20/05/2006 (SPS) The colonial authorities in the administration of the "Ennahj" school brutally aggressed the Saharawi child, Hayat El Khasmi, daughter of the Saharawi imminent human rights activist, Aminetou Haidar, who was released last January from Moroccan prisons and is actually undertaking a visit to Spain, eye witnesses indicated.

The colonial administration in this school blamed the young girl of been allegedly responsible for writing on the walls of the school in favour of Saharawi people right to self-determination, as well as the drawing of Saharawi flags, the same sources indicated.

On another hand, Saharawi citizens in the occupied city of Smara organised, on Friday, spontaneous receptions in favour of some Saharawi families coming from the Saharawi refugee camps within the framework of the supervised UN family visits exchange between the Saharawi families in the two sides of the Moroccan military wall.

They also organised a sit-in on the occasion of the celebration of the 33rd anniversary of the starting of the armed struggle of the Saharawi people for their freedom and independence.

The Moroccan forces of occupation "brutally" dispersed the demonstrators arresting 3 Saharawi citizens, who were not identified yet, because of the state of siege imposed o the occupied city of Smara, according to the same sources.

In El Aaiun, the Moroccan forces of repression arrested five Saharawi citizens, including 4 ex-Saharawi political prisoners within the framework of a campaign of intimidation of the Saharawi population, the same sources indicated.

The arrested ex-political prisoners are: Ejenhaoui Lekhlifa, Hamdi El Karcha, Toubali El Hafed and Mahmoud Haddad in addition to the young Saharawi Taglebout Ahmed. (SPS)

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Chahid El Hafed, 20/05/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, called on the UN Secretary General, Mr. Kofi Annan, to ''definitively close'' the file of the Western Sahara before the end of his mandate as the Had of the UN, by the end of 2006, in a statement to the Algerian Press Agency, APS, on the occasion of the 33^rd anniversary of the start of the armed struggle.

Mr. Annan ''must ask the international community to help him put pressures on Morocco and compel it respect the accords it signed'', the President of the Saharawi Republic in an interview realised by the Algerian press agency, APS, at the seat of the Saharawi Presidency. He added that Polisario Front ''asks nothing extraordinary, it only demands the implementation of the UN’s resolutions''.

''The adequate instruments to resolve the Western Sahara conflict exist: the 1991 Settlement Plan, enriched with the Houston Accords of 1997, and the Baker Plan, there can be no other alternative outside these plans to settle the Saharawi problem'', he stressed.

"Morocco defies the international community and the latter should treat it as a rebel State'', the Head of the State said.

Speaking about the Un Secretary General’s last report on the Western Sahara, the Head of the Saharawi State considered this report as a ''dangerous attempt aimed to deviate the Saharawi question from its natural framework, which is decolonisation''.  

''This attempt, led with the help of the Franc hand Spanish Governments has fortunately failed thanks t the opposition of the Un Security Council and to the international community'', he said.

''The Security Council reaffirmed that the settlement of the Western Sahara question was dependent of the implementation of the self-determination referendum. Wisdom and international legality had finally prevailed'', Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz further stressed.

Regarding the Moroccan project of giving an ''autonomy'' to the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, the President of the Saharawi Republic affirmed that it is a ''plan that is born dead, the proof is no more than the Saharawi peaceful demonstrations that continue for a year so far'', in El Aaiun, Smara, Dakhla and in other occupied Saharawi cities.

''The human rights situation in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara are deteriorating day by day, especially after the start of the Saharawi peaceful and popular uprising (Intifada) last May the 21st 2005'', President Abdelaziz stressed.

''We hope that the mission currently led by by a delegation of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Western Sahara, would lead to the creation of a UN mechanism that would be mandated to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms'' in this territory, he underlined.

Asked if Polisario Front is actually the party controlling the demonstrations in the occupied territories, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz affirms that ''the Saharawis, who live under Moroccan occupation struggle on their manner''.

''We do not dictate anything on Saharawis in the occupied territories; they struggle on their manner, with their own slogans asking for self-determination. We only fix the limits of this struggle, which must be peaceful, because we have to scrupulously respect the cease-fire'' with Morocco, in force since 1991, he affirmed.

''The peaceful resistance is complementary of the armed struggle. The Saharawi people have got different ways of struggle that they use following the interest and the situation. Without abandoning the weapons, our armed forces are in fact inside the liberated territories ready to resume war and sacrifice'', he explained.

Asked abut a recent statement of a Saharawi collaborator with Morocco ho propose to the Saharawi President to be on the Head of a Government ''of autonomy under the Moroccan crown'', Mr. Abdelaziz said ''he does not ant to argue'' but would like to ''give a clarification to the opinion public and to history''.

''JI have the duty to clarify something, which constitutes maybe the difference between the Polisario Front and the others: The Moroccan colonialism must understand that we do not fight for posts or for material gains. We struggle and we will sacrifice for a single objective: The freedom for the Saharawi people to govern themselves'', he firmly declared.

''Now, he explained, the Saharawi question is on the table of the highest international body, the UN Security Council. This is to say that it is an international problem, that the Moroccan presence in the Western Sahara is of a colonial nature, that the solution passes through the respect of the will of the Saharawi people and that the parties to the conflict are Morocco and Polisario Front''.

''Morocco and those supporting it, and I am talking about France and Spain, must not waste their money, their efforts and their honour to put pressures on countries to force them change their positions vis-à-vis the just cause of the Saharawi people. This will have no effects on events'', the Head of the Saharawi State stressed.

On another hand, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz regretted that the international humanitarian organisations, such as the HCR, PAM and the European Union’s programme, establish "distinctions within the refugees”.

 ''The Saharawi refugees in the camps are around 165.000. HCR, PAM and the EU say they can only help the most vulnerable refugees that they estimate to 90.000. We recall them that the refugees are living in exile, that they were chased from their land, deprived from their goods by the Moroccan colonialism, and that consequently they are all vulnerable'', he said.

The President of the Republic finally expressed his satisfaction with the withdrawal of the US oil company, Kerr McGee, which abandoned its activities n the occupied territories of the Western Sahara. (SPS)

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