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"Zapatero has got no plan" to settle Western Sahara's conflict,
according to official sources
21.07.04
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Madrid, 21/07/2004
(SPS) Spanish Head of Government, José Luis Zapatero, has got
"no plan" to settle Western Sahara's conflict, declared a close source
to Moncloa, according to Europa press.
"Spanish Government has got no plan. It has only asked the parties to
negotiate under the auspices of the United Nations, without any
prejudgment about the results", emphasised the same source, denying
thus information spread by Moroccan newspaper "Aujourd'hui le Maroc",
which talked about the existence of such a plan.
According to the
mentioned newspaper, the plan attributed to Mr. Zapatero was pretended
to be based on a status of a negotiated autonomy between Morocco and
Polisario Front.
The Saharawi
Government had recalledthat "self-determination of Saharawi people
remains the unique immediate and viable political solution towards the
final settlement of the conflict" in Western Sahara, estimating that
any other alternative that aims at dodging international legality will
have negative consequences of destabilisation on the Maghreb region, it
should be recalled.
On its side Algeria
indicated that the matter is a question of "decolonisation to achieve
on the basis of imprescriptible right of the peoples to dispose of
themselves through the immediate and diligent implementation of the
Baker plan of peace for the self-determination of the people of the
Western Sahara, which was unanimously adopted by UN's Security
Council". (SPS)
010/090/666/TRD 212030 July 04 SPS
SPS
SADR/ALGERIA/MOROCCO
Algeria reaffirms its "unshakeable attachment to African and
international legality" regarding the question of Western Sahara
Algiers, 21/07/2004 (SPS) Algerian minister for foreign affairs
published Tuesday a statement reaffirming Algerian position regarding
Western Sahara's conflict, in response to false news spread by some
medias, which has pretended that there is some outcomes concerning the
settlement of the conflict, as a result to the successive visits of
Spanish, French and Moroccan officials to Algiers. Algeria, reaffirmed,
therefore, its "unshakeable attachment to African and international
legality" regarding the question of Western Sahara.
Here is bellow the integral text of
the statement:
"Statements related to Western Sahara's question, made by some
officials of foreign governments, tended to cause a false and
deplorable confusion in Algerian-Moroccan bilateral relationships,
Maghreb's edification and the settlement of Western Sahara's conflict.
Out of respect for its responsibility towards all the peoples of the
region and towards international community, Algeria would like to
earnestly reiterate its firm position, too well known on the matter, by
stressing the following points.
First: Algeria does not subject the deepening and development of its
relations of brotherhood, good neighbourhood and cooperation with the
Kingdom of Morocco to any kind of conditions or restriction. It is, in
the contrary, disposed to undertake all needed, reciprocated and
serious, measures and initiatives to enforce the agreed-upon accords,
so as to give the Algerian-Moroccan relationships the impulse and
consistency it deserves to answer Algerian and Moroccan people's
aspirations.
Second: Algeria reaffirms its firm belief in the ideal of the Maghreb
and its firm commitment in favour of dynamising the Maghreb Arab Union.
It underlines that the building of this union constitutes a strategic
achievement that answers a major need to the development and prosperity
of all the countries of the region. The edification of the Maghreb's
Union is a well understandable advantage to all the countries of the
Maghreb, as it is an expression of faithfulness of all Maghreb's
peoples to their own history and an adequate collective response to the
challenges of contemporary period. This big civilisational project can
not be subjected to any kind of unilateral vision.
Third: Algeria considers that the development of Algerian-Moroccan
relationships and the acceleration of the construction of the Maghreb's
union, will contribute to the creation of a suitable political
atmosphere to a new era in the region.
It is this conviction and this hope that were jointly expressed during
the establishment of the diplomatic relationships between Algeria and
Morocco, as well as during the foundation of the Maghreb Union while
Western Sahara's conflict was still in a military confrontation phase
between Morocco and Polisario Front.
Thus, Algeria reaffirms that nobody is to claim that Algerian-Moroccan
relationships and the re-launching of the Magreb Union are to depend on
the settlement of Western Sahara's question, especially if the
mentioned settlement is unilaterally fixed.
Fourth: Algeria reaffirms its unshakeable attachment to African and
international legality" regarding the question of Western Sahara.
It is a matter of a decolonisation to achieve on the basis of the
imprescriptible right of the peoples to dispose of themselves through
the immediate and diligent implementation of the Baker plan of peace
for the self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara, which
was unanimously adopted by UN's Security Council.
Algeria, which has a great respect for Moroccan people, reaffirms that
it is only with Polisario Front's authorities that peace can be
achieved. It reaffirms also that the search for another interlocutor to
substitute Polisario Front, in this case Algeria, will lead to the
impasse and will unjustifiably prolong a serious situation against the
will of the peoples of the region.
Willing to contribute to a peaceful dynamic within the limits of its
status as a neighbouring country to Western Sahara and as an interested
party to the process led by the United Nations, Algeria would like to
see the two parties to the conflict assume their historical and
fundamental responsibilities by adopting a generous vision, on the
shared fate of all the peoples of the Maghreb, based on values of
equality, solidarity, democracy and unity". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 211950 July 04 SPS
SPS
SADR/ALGERIA
"Algeria is subjected to no foreign pressures", declares Belkhadem
Algiers, 21/07/2004 (SPS) Algeria is subjected to no foreign pressures
in relation to its position concerning Western Sahara's question,
indicated Tuesday the Algerian minister of State, Minister for foreign
affairs, Abdelaziz Belkhadem. He emphasised that the recent visits to
Algeria of French Minister for foreign affairs, Mr. Michel Barnier, and
the Head of Spanish Government, Mr. José Luis Zapatero, were an
occasion that allowed them to present ideas related to the settlement
of the question in Western Sahara, among which a dialogue between
Algeria and Morocco.
Invited in the T.V programme "forum de la television" (TV Forum), Mr.
Belkhadem emphasised that "from time to another, they proposed it
(Algeria) ideas to find solution to this question, but Algeria always
insists in recalling its position of principle, which is that this
question is a decolonisation issue to achieve on the basis of the
self-determination of the Saharawi people".
In this respect, Mr. Belkhadem indicated that his country believe in
the dialogue with all the concerned parties to the conflict, but "if an
encounter to discuss about Western Sahara is planed, we are not the
leaders of Saharawis and they did not ask us to take charge of any
mission", he stressed.
On another hand he specified that the visit of Moroccan Minister for
interior, Mostafa Sahel, Tuesday to Algiers, "is an occasion to discuss
many questions and study the setting up of joint mechanisms at the
security level between the two countries, especially regarding
questions resulting from the war on terrorism, contraband and drugs
traffic". (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 211644 July 04 SPS
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