SPS SADR/SPAIN/ARAB
LEAGUE Spanish associations call
Zapatero to defend the Baker Plan before the Arab League Summit
22.03.05
Seville, 22/03/2005 (SPS) The
President of the Associations of solidarity with the Western Sahara,
José Taboada, called the Head of the Spanish Government,
José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, to defend the Baker Plan "with no
ambiguity" before of the Arab League Summit, that will take place in
the 22nd and 23rd March in the Algerian Capital and to which many other
occidental personalities are invited.
Mr. Taboada expressed the "deep preoccupation" of the associations he
is representing in front of French and Spanish attempts to take profit
of the next end of Minurso's mandate and the discussion of the dossier
by the UN's Security Council this April, aimed at "modifying the Baker
Plan", estimating that there "will be no stability nor democracy in the
Maghreb before justice is given to Saharawi people".
"We were against the intention of the United States in Iraq, but what
we can not accept is to let Saharawis be sacrificed for the change of
the alliance of the Azores by that of Elysée Palace", warned Mr.
Taboada in a press release, SPS received.
On another hand, Mr. Taboada condemned "the increase of repression"
against Saharawis in the zones Morocco occupies, estimating as
"unsatisfying" the excuses given by the Delegate of the Spanish
Government in the Canary Islands, José Segura Clavell, as well
as by the Central Government about the recent visit to El Aaiun of the
delegate in company of Canaries businessmen. He recalled that the
exploitation of the Saharawi natural resources "can not be undertaken,
according to many UN's resolutions, without the consent of the Saharawi
people". (SPS)
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE