Bir Lehlu (liberated territories), 21/07/2006 (SPS) The Polisario Front National Secretariat (SN) called on France to "stop" encouraging Morocco "rebels against the international legality and recalled Madrid of its "juridical responsibilities" in the tragedy lived by the Saharawi people and in "the decolonisation" of the Saharawi territory, according to a communiqué of the SN, the Highest political body of the Polisario.

Meeting in an ordinary session under the chairmanship of Polisario Front’s General Secretary, the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, the SN established a positive record of the first six months of the current year, underlining its "satisfaction" about the progress of the schedules decided by the Government in addition to the "devotion" that characterised the commemoration of the different national days organised in the refugee camps, in the liberated territories and in the occupied zones of the Saharawi Republic.

he SN stressed "the continuity, extension and the extent of the Intifada" in its second year, saluting the Saharawi people under the yoke of the Moroccan colonial occupation and those among them who passed away in the battle field of honour such as martyr Lekhlifi Abba Cheikh, a young Saharawi who was killed under torture in the middle of the street, last October 2005, by police agents.

The text also denounced "the serious human rights volitions committed by the Moroccan Government against the Saharawi innocent citizens, especially police exactions, abductions, savage torture, terror, assassination and show trials", quoting the recent trial of Saharawi human rights activists, Brahim Sabbar, the Secretary General of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Moroccan Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State and Mr. Ahmed Mahmoud Heddi El Keinan, and his brother (July 20, 2006).

In this respect, the SN called on the UN to "assume its responsibilities in the territory, which falls under its competences", by establishing "mechanisms that can guarantee the security, freedom and the rights of the Saharawi people in the occupied zones" and also to "lift the security and Medias blockage imposed on the territory until the organisation of a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people".

On another hand, the SN denounced "the policy of delays adopted by the Moroccan Government and its denial of its engagements with the UN and the Saharawi party", asking the international community to "exercise pressures n Morocco to compel it implement the “Peace Plan for the self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara”, also called the Baker Plan.

Recalling its will to continue "cooperating" with the UN to put an end to the conflict "on the basis of the international legality", the SN renewed its "rejection of any approach that does not respect the main basis to the solution, mainly the decolonisation of the Western Sahara, via the respect of the ill of the Saharawi people and their legitimate right to self-determination through a regular and transparent referendum".

"The Saharawi people, who renew their engagement to the path drawn by their martyrs and to pursue the struggle for freedom and dignity, reaffirm their total rejection of any solution aiming at consecrating the Moroccan colonial fait accompli in the Western Sahara", the SN stressed in the communiqué.

In another subject, the Polisario Fronts’ highest political body decided to hold the next National Congress of POLISARIO Front “during the year 2007” conforming to the chapter 41 of the organisation’s constitution, knowing that the congress was planed for 2006.

It also hailed the "principled position of Algeria under the leadership of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika", underlining the recently organised week of the Saharawi Republic, held in Algeria, and its successes on all levels, official and popular.

The SN finally hailed the support to the Saharawi cause by the African union, which "is attached to the self-determination and the respect of the borders inherited from the colonial period". It also saluted the indefectible support of the European peoples and "especially of Spain", in addition to the "courageous" positions of political parties and Moroccan human rights organisations such as "Annahj Dimoucrati" (Democratic Path) and the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH). (SPS)

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