SPS SADR/EUROPE/ALGERIA/MEDIA Europe is "accountable for the
danger that threatens" the Maghreb Arab, declares Mohamed Abdelaziz
22.12.04
Alger, 22/12/04 (SPS) The
President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, considered Europe as
"accountable for the danger that threatens" the stability and peace in
the Maghreb Arab, because European weakness encourages Morocco in its
position of intransigence and defiance to international legality.
In an interview he accorded to the Algerian French-speaking newspaper,
"Liberté", Mr. Abdelaziz considered "Europe, especially France
and Spain, as accountable for the danger that threatens" the great
Maghreb, "for having encouraged Morocco in its current position", which
violates international and African legality as well as the interests
and aspirations to peace and stability of the peoples of the region.
"There is a kind of conspiracy between the Governments of Rabat, Madrid
and Paris, against the Saharawi people and international legality”
underlined the President of the Republic, in reference to the last
attempts by the three Governments to reroute the question of Western
Sahara from its framework of decolonisation by "searching" solutions to
the conflict outer the UN frame and to the detriment of the Saharawi
people and their fundamental rights to independence and
self-determination.
Like SADR, Europe is certainly "concerned with the internal situation
of Morocco", what can explain the lack of firmness in the positions of
many European countries in front of Moroccan violations of
international legality, emphasised the Head of the State, estimating
however that this attitude may have negative consequences, not only on
Saharawi people abut also on Morocco and the whole region.
"We say to Europeans and to all those who feel preoccupied with this
situation that one of the factors of the stability and settlement of
the problems of Morocco is the following: Rabat must stop its colonial
policy, respect the international legality and ameliorate its relations
with its neighbours", he underlined.
Concerning the Spanish position, Mr. Abdelaziz considered that the
Spanish Socialist Government "is to blame for the volte-face of Rabat",
because of Madrid’s alignment on the expansionist thesis of the
Paris-Rabat axis, which had never stopped putting obstacles in front of
the decolonisation of Western Sahara.
SADR would not have had reasons to worry about the signals of
"agreement between the Spanish and Moroccan Governments", asserted
President Abdelaziz, if it was not that "we see that there is an
agreement (between the two countries) to the detriment of the question
of Western Sahara", he added, what makes Saharawis fear from a new
Spanish betrayal like the one that resulted from the Madrid Accords
agreements of 1975 between Spain Morocco and Mauritania.
Tackling the Moroccan attempts of denigration led against Polisario
Front, Mr. Abdelaziz declared that Saharawi people, who are determined
to "resolve their problems through democratic ways", had always
struggled for freedom without resorting "to extremism nor to terrorism"
against the colonialism and barbarism of Rabat, though Moroccan
authorities continue to maintain the Saharawi population in occupied
territories of SADR under terror and military siege.
In brief, concluded the President of the Republic, it is impossible to
allow or accept what some parties call "search" for a solution or
compromise apart from the international legality, "because the
decolonisation issue of Western Sahara, is at the first place a
question of respect of Saharawi people's right to self-determination",
conforming to the UN's Charter and to the pertinent UN's resolutions,
he put. (SPS)
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