SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

London, 23/09/2004 (SPS) Polisario Front's Coordinator with the Minurso, Mohamed Khaddad, estimated that "the ball is in the field of Morocco" after the latter has rejected the Baker Plan, which is answering the three quarters of Rabat's claims, he asserted.

In an interview publicised Thursday by the London Arabic daily "El Hayat", Mr. Khaddad considered that Rabat "does not have the courage to submit acceptable propositions", emphasising that Polisario has informed UN's Special Representative for Western Sahara in charge of the Minurso, Alvaro de Soto, of this position and of the Moroccan rejection of the United Nations' prepositions.

"The international community granted Morocco sufficient time to find a solution", estimated Mr. Khaddad stressing that a withdrawal of the UN would constitute "tremendous failure of the UNO after having spent 650 million dollars during 13 years".

Reiterating the rejection of the idea of a widened autonomy to which Morocco sticks, as affirmed by the king of Morocco in front of the UN General Assembly, Mr. Khaddad recalled that Western Sahara's conflict is not a question of an "internal problem in Morocco, but an international question of decolonisation".

Concerning the position of France on the question of Western Sahara, Mr. Khaddad declared that "nothing shows that France works to find a fair solution to the problem". He affirms that Paris "calls for the application of international legality in Iraq whereas it tramples it underfoot as soon as Western Sahara is concerned".

With regards to the new Spanish Government, the Saharawi diplomat dismissed the possibility that it can change the position of Madrid estimating that "its has a very narrow margin of manoeuvre", referring to the last motion adopted by the Spanish Parliament, in which it opposes any change of position with respect to the settlement plan in Western Sahara. (SPS)

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RASD/LATINO AMERICA/PARLIAMENT/SUPPORT
The Parliament of the Central American countries adopts a resolution of support for the self-determination of the Saharawi people

Guatemala, 24/09/2004 (SPS) The Parliament of the Central American countries adopted, Thursday in its seat in Guatemala, a resolution of "support for the self-determination of the people of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic"(SADR), exhorting Parliaments around the world "to support SADR and its territorial integrity, as well as the aspirations of its people to peace and progress".

Recalling of the terms of a former resolution adopted in 2000, the Parliament reaffirmed its support for the "just struggle of the people of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic for the establishment of its national self-determination, peace and democratic construction through our moral support and solidarity".

Referring to the recent official recognition of SADR by South Africa, the resolution congratulated "the Republic of South Africa for its just decision to establish full diplomatic relations, in the interest of the two nations and the two people (…) and the African union ", underlined the resolution, of which SPS received a copy.

The continental legislative authority which includes the republics of Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama, recalled that the Saharawi people, "whose administrative and politic representative is the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, has never stopped its intense fight for the self-determination and the full establishment of its territorial integrity". (SPS))

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