SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

Algiers, 23/10/2005 (SPS) Algerian National Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS) estimated that the decolonisation of Western Sahara "must urgently be materialised through the enforcement of the Baker Plan, and through UN’s Security Council assuming its responsibility as a body in charge f maintaining peace and security".

In a press release publicised Saturday, the CNASPS condemned "the strategy of confrontation and escalade adopted by Morocco as a permanent political style" that consists in "that often put the blame on Algeria accusing it of been responsible of the obstruction of a solution to the conflict".

"In this respect, the CNASPS recalls that the indignant and dishonest excuse used by Moroccan Government in an attempt to accuse Algeria of the sad situation, is an old strategy that would not affect the conviction, determination and popular attachment of the Algerian society to international legality”, the press release said.

The Association, chaired by Mr. Mahrez Lamari, remains "convinced that nothing ca shake Saharawi people’s will and determination to recover its rights".

CNASPS also recalled that a self-determination referendum "culminated the heroic struggle of the Algerian people and remains convinced that sooner or later this inalienable right will also prevail in Western Sahara". (SPS)

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SADR/ITALY

Italy reiterates its support to the enforcement of the UN’s peace plan in Western Sahara

Roma, 23/10/2005 (SPS) Italian Government reiterates its support to the enforcement of the UN’s peace plan in Western Sahara, declared Italian under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Alfredo Luigi Mantica, in his answer to an interrogation before the Italian Chamber of Deputies’ Foreign Affairs Committee.

Asked about the question of Western Sahara by a member of the Parliamentarian group of Italian-Moroccan friendship, of which a delegation has just finished a visit to Morocco, Mr. Mantica confirmed the engagement of the Italian Government of keeping with the facts, underlining that "it is necessary to surmount the actual impasse in which the Saharawi people and finish the identification operations so as to realise the Baker Plan".

Parliamentarian Laura Cima declared to be "relatively" satisfied with the answer of the Italian official, due to the seriousness of the situation of the Saharawi people "who is a witness and a victim to the last colonial event in our times".

Further, the Parliamentarian condemned "the repression by the Moroccan Government against the Saharawi people who has always maintained a respectful attitude towards the legality and has always rejected violence".

Laura Cima asked the Italian Government to focus its efforts to guarantee all the needed conditions for the solution of this problem and to he enforcement of the Baker Plan. (SPS)

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SADR/RUSSIA

Russian Ambassador to Algiers reiterates the support of his country to the UN’s Peace Plan for Western Sahara

Algiers, 23/10/2005 (SPS) Russian Ambassador to Algiers, Vladimir Titorenko, who was invited Wednesday in the Algerian Radio Channel 3 programme "current history", reiterated the Moscow’s support to the UN’s peace plan for Western Sahara.

The Russian Ambassador affirmed in this respect that his country was attached to the right to self-determination and to the settlement that is fixed by the Baker Plan which was approved by the UN.

Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Spokesperson, Alexandre Lakovenko, has affirmed last April 2003 that his country remains attached to a solution of Western Sahara’s conflict under the aegis of the UN and on the basis of its Settlement Plan enforced in the territory since 1991, it should be recalled.

Interviewed by the Russian Press Agency, Ria-Novosti, Mr. Lakovenko had underlined then that ''the position of principle of Russia can be summarised in the need of the settlement (of this question) by political methods, in the support to the efforts deployed for this end under the aegis of the UN, especially the UN’s Peace Plan". (SPS)

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