SPS SADR/UN/MOROCCO President Abdelaziz asks UN for
the protection of Saharawi civilians in Western Sahara
24.03.05
Bir
Lehlu (liberated territories), 24/03/2005 (SPS) The President of
the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, asked UN's Secretary General, Kofi
Annan, for the protection of Saharawi citizens in Western Sahara, among
whom 23 persons were injured lat week in many demonstrations in the
Saharawi territory and in Morocco, as a result to Moroccan colonial
forces repression.
"We address you an urgent appeal, in your quality of the highest UN's
official, and we address the Security Council to immediately adopt the
needed measures to assume the international responsibility of
protecting our citizens under Moroccan occupation and to put an end to
all their sufferings, allowing them to exercise their fundamental right
to freely express and demonstrate peacefully", wrote Mr. Abdelaziz to
the UN's SG in a letter, of which SPS received a copy.
The President of the Republic counted "not less than 5 brutal
interventions against Saharawi students", having caused an important
number of victims among students in Rabat, Marrakech, Casablanca and
Agadir and among the civil population in Tantan Goulimine, Assa (South
Morocco), El Aaiun, Smara, Dakhla and Boujdour (Western Sahara).
The Head of the State called to the release of all the Saharawi
political detainees, POWs and disappeared. He denounced the "terrible
security blockade" to which occupied territories are submitted,
separated from the rest of the territory by a defensive wall, which he
described as "a real crime against humanity" with all its destructive
weapons that "cause death and terror within the innocent civil
population". (SPS)
SPS SADR/CUBA Meeting of the Saharawi-Cuban
mixed Committee in Chahid El Hafed
Chahid
El Hafed, 24/03/2005 (SPS) The Minister for Education, Bachir Moustapha
Sayed, chaired a meeting of the Saharawi-Cuban mist Committee, last
Thursday in the Complex Martyr Houssein Tamek, with the presence of the
Cuban Vice-Minister for Investment and International Cooperation, Ramon
Ripol Diaz.
The Cuban delegation is undertaking a two days work visit, which will
be devoted to the review of the cooperation between the two countries
and the means to enforce them.
"Our cooperation with Cuba was basically axed in education and health.
It will be developed starting from this year to include culture and
information", said Mr. Bachir in a statement to the press.
On his part, the Cuban Vice-Minister underlined that the meeting will
have to "evaluate the achieved work since the last meeting of the
Committee last year in Havana and to sign new accords of cooperation".
He put forward "the common resemblance between the two revolutions,
Cuban and Saharawi, as well as the ties of brotherhood and cooperation
that linked the two peoples for many decades".
The meeting was attended by Cuban Ambassador to SADR, Roberto Blanco,
and a high official of the Cuban Ministry of Cooperation, with the
presence of Saharawi Minister for Cooperation, Salek Baba Hacena, the
Minister of Culture and Sports, Mariem Salek, as well as the Minister
for Information, Sid’Ahmed Battal. (SPS)
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