SAHARA PRESSE SERVICE

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SADR/AFRICAN UNION

The UN "must show more determination" for the enforcement of the Peace Plan in the Western Sahara

25.01.06

Khartoum (Sudan), 25/01/2006 (SPS) The African Union’s Council for Peace and Security, declared on Tuesday, that the international community "must show more determination to ensure the enforcement of the UN’s Peace Plan and the UN’s Security Council’s resolutions for the self-determination of the people in Western Sahara", indicated the correspondent of SPS.

The African Union’s Council for Peace and Security underlined, in its report on the situation in the continent, presented before of the session of closure of the works of the sixth ordinary session of the UN’s General Assembly of the Heads of States and Governments, that the "impasse in Western Sahara is still persisting".

Chairing the Saharawi delegation in his session, Mr. Mhamed Khadad, who represented the Head of the State, Mohamed Abdelaziz, had had many meetings with the participating delegations, the same source added.

The Saharawi delegation also had meetings with the Norwegian and Cuban vice-ministers for Foreign Affairs, the Presidents of Burundi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Tanzania in addition to the vice-President of the Seychelles, the vice Prime minister of Lesotho and of the Mauricio, as well as the ministers for Foreign Affairs of Angola, Rwanda, Kenya, Botswana and Namibia.

The African Union’s Executive Council (Council of Ministers) expressed "concern" about the "permanent blockage of the peace process in addition to the increasing frustration of the people of Western Sahara", Saturday in Khartoum, affirming that the situation in Western Sahara "deserves a special intention from the international community", it should be recalled.

The 6^th session of the Assembly of African Union’s Heads of States and Governments, held between the 23 to the 24th of January 2006 in Khartoum, has elected the President of Congo, Sassou Nguesso, as the President of the Union for the years 2006 and adopted important resolutions on the United Nation’s reforms, the peace and security in the continent, the economical situation, culture and education.

Elle a en outre décidé de la tenue de sa prochaine réunion les 1 et 2 juillet prochain à Banjul en Gambie. (SPS)

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SADR/MAURITANIA/VISIT

The Special Envoy of the Head of the State meets with the Representatives of Mauritanian political parties

Nouakchott, 25/01/2005 (SPS) Mr. El Khalil Sid’Mhamed, Saharawi Minister of Occupied Territories and Communities and Special Envoy of the President of the Republic had had many meetings with representatives of different Mauritanian political parties in Nouakchott, in margin of the visit to Mauritania he started last Monday, indicated a press release publicised by the Saharawi Ministry of Information.

Mr. Khalil Sid'M'hamed had had many meetings with Mauritanian representatives of political parties and personalities, informing them "on the last developments of the political and humanitarian situation in Western Sahara as well as on other issues related to the general situation of the Maghreb region", the press release, of which SPS received a copy on Wednesday, underlined

Accompanied by Me. Bachir Sghaiar, Counsellor at the Saharawi Presidency in charge for Diplomatic Affairs, the President of the Republic’s Envoy met with members of the Committee of contact of the Union of the Democratic Centre, mainly Mr. Lemrabet Mamadu Allanssance and Mohamed El Ghali Cherif, former Mauritanian Minister of Interior.

The Saharawi delegation was received after, at the seat of the Mauritanian Popular Front, by the President of the Party, Mr. Chbih Ould Cheikh Malainine. It had after that had a meeting with the President of the Democratic Alternative for Mauritania, Mr. Mohamed Yahdih Ould Mohamed El Hassan, it was further indicated.

Barer of a message a message from the Saharawi President to the Mauritanian Head of State, on the last developments of the Western Sahara question, Mr. EL Kalil Sid'M'hamed was received on Monday morning in Nouakchott, by the Head of the Mauritanian State, President of the Mauritanian Military Council of Justice and Democracy, Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, it hould be recalled.

The audience took place with the presence of Mr. Mohammed Lemine Ould Dahi, Director of the Mauritanian President’s Cabinet, and Mr. Dedoud Ould Abdellahi, Counsellor to the presidency.

Mauritania, maintains relations of good neighbourhood and mutual respect with the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic. It is also considered, in addition to Algeria and the African Union, as observers in the enforcement of the UN’s peace plan in Western Sahara. (SPS)

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SADR/ITALY/SOLIDARITY

Sit-in of solidarity with the Saharawi people in Bologna on January the 28th

Roma, 25/1/2006 (SPS) A sit-in of solidarity with the Saharawi people in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, who are waging a peaceful uprising since last May 2005, and in favour of the organisation of a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people, will take place this January the 28 in front of the Moroccan Consulate in Bologna, indicated a press release by the Italian Associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people (ANSPS).

Organised to the request of the ANSPS, of the Italian region of Emilie Romagna, in addition to the International Bureau for Human Rights in Western Sahara (BIRDHSO), the organisers expect a wide participation to this demonstration, who aim out of this new act of protest to "break the wall of silence that seals the peaceful protests of the Saharawi people and the blind repression exercised by the Moroccan kingdom", against the Saharai helpless and peaceful population, the text added.

ANSPS press release denounced, on another hand, ''the arbitrary incarcerations without trials or based on show judgements" of the Saharawi human rights activists in the territories of Western Sahara under Moroccan occupation, as well as the ''systematic use of violence and torture in the Moroccan prisons, reprisals and violence against the families of the detainees".

On another hand, the organisers called for the respect of human rights in the occupied territories of Western Sahara, the respect of the UN’s Security Council’s resolutions, the organisation of a self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people, the release of all the Saharawi political prisoners in Moroccan custody and information about the Saharawi victims of disappearance. (SPS)

060/090/700 251711 Jan 06 SPS

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SADR/SPAIN/VISIT

Visit of the President of the Republic on Friday to Galicia

Madrid, 25/01/2006 (SPS) the President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, will undertake an official visit to Galicia, from the 27 to the 29th January, "so as to strengthen the political and humanitarian relations with this North-Eastern Spanish region", indicated a source from the Saharawi Representation in Madrid, on Tuesday.

During this visit, the Head of the State will have meetings with the President of the Galician Government, the socialist Emilio Perez Tourinio, his vice-President, Anxo Quintana, from the Galician Nationalist Bloc, and the President of the Galician Parliament, Mrs. Dolores Villarino, in which he will inform his interlocutors on the "last developments in the occupied territories of Western Sahara’’, the same source indicated.

Accompanied with the Saharawi Minister for Cooperation, Salek Baba Hassana, the Governor of Dakhla, Salem Lebsir, Polisario Front’s Delegate in Spain, Brahim Gali, and other Saharawi personalities, the President of the Republic will also meet with the Galician Counsellors (ministers in the Galician Government) for Industry, Health, Agriculture, Environment, Education and Accommodation, as well as the leaders of the local Popular Party and Unified Left (Esquierda Unida).

M. Abdelaziz will also receive the Golden Medal of the Federation of Businessmen Luso-galaicos, the same source indicated.

The Head of the State left the Bolivian Capital, La Paz, on Monday evening, after having attended the ceremony of transfer of power in Bolivia between the former President Edouardo Rodriguez Belice, and the newly elected Bolivian President, Evo Morales, it should be recalled.

The participation of the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, to the ceremony of investiture of the newly elected Bolivian President, Evo Morales, is a new step towards the strengthening of the bilateral relations between the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and the Latino American States, declared on Tuesday the Saharawi Ambassador to Venezuela, Haj Ahmed, Member of the presidential delegation in la Paz. (SPS)

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