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SPS Pretoria and Algiers calls to the decolonisation of Western Sahara 21.11.05
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Algiers,
21/11/2005 (SPS) Algerian and South African experts, who are meeting in Algiers
to prepare for the 5th High joint Commission, called for the decolonisation of
Western Sahara that is militarily occupied by Morocco since 1975, estimating
that the UN’s plan, Baker Plan II, constitutes the appropriate frame that will
enable Saharawi people to freely decide over their future, reported Algerian
Press Agency, APS, quoting source from Algerian Foreign Ministry.
"On the Western Sahara question, the two parties reaffirmed again that it is a
decolonisation problem and reiterated their full support to the UN’s peace plan
(Plan Baker II), adopted in the UN’s Security Council’s resolution 1495", the
same source indicated, adding that the two parties hailed "SADR’s decision to
release, without conditions, all Moroccan prisoners of war".
The works of the preparatory meeting took place under the chairmanship of Mr.
Smaïl Chergui, General Director of the Algerian Foreign Ministry’s Department of
Africa and Mr. Super Moloi, South African Ambassador to Algiers. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 211012 nov 05 SPS
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SPS "Nothing seems to be able to stop the Saharawi Intifada", a Spanish newspaper writes
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Madrid, 21/11/2005 (SPS) Spanish newspaper, El Mundo, estimated on Sunday that "Nothing seems to be able to stop the Intifada" of the Saharawi population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, despite the repression it is subjected to by the Moroccan forces.
"Nothing seems to be able to stop the Saharawi Intifada, despite of the fact that the main local leaders and human rights activists were put in detention since the summer", El Mundo stressed in an article entitled ''the Saharawi Intifada intensifies''.
"With stones demonstrators face the Moroccan police –heavily armed-, burn the flag of the kingdom in the streets of El Aaiun (the capital of Western Sahara), chanting slogans against the occupation and claiming for the enforcement of the UN’s peace plan that plans for the organisation of a self-determination referendum", the newspaper adds.
The intensification of demonstrations coincides with the 30th anniversary of the ‘Green March’, "via which Hassan II annexed the Sahara after having been abandoned by Spain in November he 6th 1975, and the signing in November the 14th 1975 of the Madrid’s Tripartite Accords that consolidated the occupation of the former Spanish colony", El Mundo stressed.
"The conflict is in a deadlock, as the UN’s Secretary General, Kofi Annan, recognises in his last report on Western Sahara" and the "perspectives of reaching an accord between Rabat and POLISARIO Front, which will help reach a just and lasting solution to the conflict within the framework of the United Nations, are more and more difficult", the Spanish newspaper estimated. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 210957 nov 05 SPS
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SPS At least 8 persons arrested after demonstrations in three Saharawi cities
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 21/11/2005 (SPS) 8 persons, at least, were arrested during demonstrations that took place on Sunday and early Monday, in El Aaiun, Dakhla and Boujdour, calling for the self-determination of the Saharawi people and the respect of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, reported concordant sources.
A group of young Saharawis, who were organizing a demonstration in front of the administration of the Bucraa Company in El Aaiun, lifting SADR’s flags, were brutally dispersed by the Moroccan forces that are maintaining the city under a tight military siege, the same sources indicate.
2 women ere named among the arrestees in El Aaiun, mainly Mrs. Aziza mint Lebrass and Mrs.Khouta mint Limam, while in Boujdour Mr. Lensari Ahmed,Mr. Khaya Cheikh Ould M’barek Ould Khaya and Mr. Malainine were arrested. In Dajla, Mr. Ghoulam Ejouad Kmach and Lakhal Ahmed Salem were arrested the same sources add.
On another hand, it should be mentioned, Mrs. Mahjouba Hamoud Soueidi, who were cruelly tortured by Moroccan forces of repression, on Tuesday in El Aaiun, is actually half paralyzed. Moroccan police ransacked her house in "Dir Eydak" neighbourhood, as well as the house of Mrs. Mr. Sidati Selami Said, the same source underlined.
In the occupied city of Smara, the Moroccan authorities continue threatening Saharawi citizen, Mr. Saidi Mahmoud Bahaha and all the member of his family of deportation to Goulimine (south Morocco), because it accused him of sympathizing with the Intafada.
SADR’s flags, the same source added, were lifted in the "Ali Salem Tamek" Park by Saharawi citizens in Assa city (south Morocco). Demonstrators organised a popular rally chanting slogans that reject autonomy and denounce the flagrant human rights violations committed by Moroccan forces against Saharawi population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 211210 Nov 05 SPS
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SPS Opening of the 6th Conference of the Saharawi youth in Dakhla camp
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Chahid El Hafed, 21/11/2005 (SPS) The 6th Conference of the Union of the Youth of Saguia El Hamra y Rio de Oro (UJSARIO-in Spanish) will open this Wednesday in the wilaya of Dakhla with the participation of more than 800 delegates and the presence of more than 500 guests, of whom the first wave already arrived to the Saharawi refugee camps, the organizers indicate.
The Conference, which bares the name of Martyr Lembarki Hamdi -a young Saharawi tortured to death by Moroccan forces of occupation last October the 30th 2005 in the occupied city of El Aaiun-, will hold its works until the 25th of November under the theme "we will resist until the independence".
In their 6th conference, Saharawi youth will have to elect a new General Secretary and an Executive Council composed of 7 members, besides adopting a programme of action for the coming 4 years and a constitution for the youth union.
The second day of the conference will be marked by the holding of an international conference of solidarity with the Saharawi people to which more than 500 guests, from Europe, Africa and Latino America, will take part, the organizers said.
Meanwhile, the same camp 13th edition of the National Festival of Culture will open on Thursday with a folkloric parade, painting and photos expositions, sports competitions and many other activities. The shows of the Festival will be animated by national and foreign artists, it was said.
It is worth mentioned that a conference will be organised by the Saharawi community living in Mauritania in the margin of these activities, the organisers indicated. (SPS)
010/090/100/TRD 211445 nov 05 SPS
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SPS Moroccan colonial authorities ransack the house of a Saharawi human rights activist
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 21/11/2005(SPS) Moroccan secret services’ agents ransacked, on Sunday, the house of Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political prisoner, Ahmed Sbaii, who seems to be wanted, threatening his family of the Moroccan attention to imprison him and execute him if captured, his family indicated.
On another hand, Saharawi political prisoner, Baba El Arbi, pursue a hunger strike for the second week in the central prison in Ait Melloul (Agadir- Morocco). He claims for decent conditions of detention and of being transferred to the Carcel negra in El Aaiun near his family and with other Saharawi political prisoners.
Mr. Baba El Arbi is sentenced 4 years imprisonment by a Moroccan colonial court for his activities as human rights defender in Western Sahara, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 211255 nov 05 SPS
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SPS A reunion of African and Latino American intellectuals
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Caracas, 21/11/2005 (SPS) Within the framework of the Cultural Festival of African and Latino American peoples, a meeting of African and Latino American intellectuals took place in Vargas city under the presidency of many Venezuelan officials, including, Francisco Sesto, Minister for Culture, Reinaldo Bolivar, vice-Minister for the Relations with Africa, as well as many Parliamentarians, Mayors and intellectuals from Zimbabwe, the Saharawi Republic, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Namibia, South Africa, Senegal, Jamaica and other countries.
The Saharawi Representative in this meeting, M'beirik Hmedi, has participated to many round tables that tackled subjects in the geopolitics in Africa and America within the framework of the South-South relations.
The final resolution, adopted after the meetings, mentioned the situation in Western Sahara, expressing the support of African and Latino American intellectuals to the Saharawi struggle for independence and demanded by the same occasion the immediate withdrawal of Morocco from all the Saharawi territories it is illegally occupying.
On another hand, a meeting between the African and Latino American Governors and Mayors, took place with the participation of the Saharawi Assistant Mayor of Tifariti Daira (Saharawi refugee camp of Smara), Malainine Mohamed.
Many African and Venezuelan Governors and Mayors, were presented to the opening ceremony, besides a representation of the Venezuelan Government and of the Saharawi delegation, chaired by Saharawi Minister for Culture, Mrs. Mariem Salek, and the presence of Mrs. Aicha Abdallahi, Saharawi Parliamentarian as well as Saharawi Ambassador to Venezuela.
In the margin of the opening session, the Saharawi Minister and the Saharawi Parliamentarian had a meeting of work with the person in charge of the National Institution of the Woman (INAMUJER- Venezuelan), which reaffirmed its support to the Saharawi people’s struggle for self-determination and independence and condemned the human rights violations perpetrated by Morocco in the occupied zones of Western Sahara. (SPS)
060/090/100/TRD 211632 nov 05 SPS
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SPS A strong Saharawi presence to the closing ceremony of the Cultural Festival of African peoples in Caracas
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Caracas, 21/11/2005 (SPS) The closing ceremony of the Cultural Festival of African peoples, which took place in Caracas between the 12th and 20th November counted with the qualitative participation of a strong Saharawi delegation, chaired by the Saharawi Minister for Culture, Mrs. Mariem Salek.
The official inauguration of the Festival, held in the theatre of Carreno, in Caracas, under the auspices of the Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Relations, Rodrigez Araque, with the participation of many African delegations, including a Saharawi delegation, chaired by Saharawi Minister for Culture, Mrs. Mariem Salek, accompanied by Parliamentarian, Mrs. Aicha Abdallahi, President of the group of friendship with Venezuela, and Mr. El Hadj Ahmed, Saharawi Ambassador to Caracas, besides representatives of Saharawi Dairas and the musical group of Naaja.
The delegation was highly hailed upon its entry to the theatre. Saharawi Minister of Culture declared to TV Channels that relations between Saharawi people and Venezuela are exceptional stressing the distinguished position of President Hugo Chavez Frias and his support to Saharawi people’s struggle for self-determination and independence.
The first African-Latino American inter-Parliamentarian conference opened its work in margin of the Festival under the chairmanship of the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Nicolas Maduro, and with the presence of many Ministers and Representatives of the African Parliaments. SADR was represented in the conference by the Parliamentarian, Mrs. Aicha Abdallahi and Saharawi Ambassador to Venezuela.
In his speech, Mr. Nicolas Maduro, recalled the ties that link the peoples of Africa and Latino America in the struggle for self-determination and against the colonial domination.
Official delegation, also attended, in the same morning, to the inauguration of the exposition "faces and symbolical life in Africa", which took place in the Casa Amarilla, in the seat of the Venezuelan Ministry or Foreign Affairs.
The same evening Saharawi Minister for Culture n the Saharawi delegation participated to the opening of the Festival o the Book, organised under the chairmanship of the Venezuelan Minister for Culture.
On another hand, the two main TV Channels of Latino-America, Telesur and Canal Satellite, broadcasted an interview with M. M’beirik Hmedi, who participated to the festival on behalf of Saharawi intellectuals. The interview, live, gave a wide vision on the Saharawi people struggle’s perspective for the independence and the possibilities of resuming to war with Morocco. (SPS)
010/090/100/TRD 211625 nov 05 SPS
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