SPS SADR/HEALTH/CONFERENCE Opening of the scientific days
of health in Smara
25.03.05
Smara (refugees camps),
25/04/2005 (SPS) The opening session of the Scientific days of health
took place on Sunday in the Wilaya of Smara (refugees camps),
with the participation of Saharawi and Foreigner doctors and searchers
besides members of the Government, Parliament and national cadres.
The opening session was marked by the presence of the President of the
Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, who gave a touching speech on the
challenges of the sector of health and aspirations of the Saharawi
people in the scientific researches. It was also an opportunity for the
Minister of Health and President of the event, Mr. Bullahi Siid, and
Mr. Bouchraya Beyounm, Wali of Smara to address the audience.
The protagonism was then given to the Saharawi doctors and searchers.
Scientific lectures and studies were then presented on the medical
prevention, hygiene, vaccination, the health of mothers and children.
The days that bare the name of the Saharawi legendary nurse and
fighter, Martyr Sidammi El Mokhtar, "are also an occasion to pay
tribute to the first person in charge of Health, Mr. Bel-la Ahmed Zein,
who failed on the field of honour in September the 24th 1976, as well
as to all martyrs who gave their lives to save the lives of others
during the most critical moments of the Saharawi people struggle for
freedom", declared a doctor top SPS.
Mr. Boullahi Siid, Saharawi Minister of Health, declared to the
national Medias that "this event mainly aims at encouraging the
scientific research, the exchange of experiences with foreign searchers
as well as arising awareness on the importance of the sanitary sector
and the need to develop and ameliorate it".
Besides the large participation of the national cadres of the sector
the conference counted with the participation of doctors from Spain,
Italy, France, Algeria and from the World Organisation of Health.
The event, which will close its works this evening according to the
programme, will have to adopt resolutions and decisions as well as
chose the best scientific study among the presented researches. (SPS)
SPS SADR/SPAIN/MEDIAS
Khadad affirms that Spain must play the role Portugal played in the
decolonisation of East Timor
Madrid, 25/04/2005(SPS) The
Saharawi Coordinator with the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western
Sahara (MINURSO), M. MHamed Khadad, affirmed that "Spain must play the
role Portugal played in the decolonisation of East Timor", Sunday
in an interview to the Spanish digital website. He estimated that the
settlement of the Saharawi question within the framework of the
international legality is in the interest of Spain France and the whole
region.
The Saharawi diplomat criticised the position of Spain which declares
to be "for a solution to the conflict within the framework of the
international legality" while it "acts in favour of Morocco" in its
"rejection of all UN's plans starting from 1991 to the last Baker plan".
He indicated that "the effective neutrality" of Spain in the Western
Sahara conflict should be manifested in "the support to the
international legality" like its position in Iraq.
"We must work for a democratic solution because only democracy is able
to stabilise the great Maghreb and all the Southern Spanish borders",
he estimated, underlining that it is "unacceptable that Spain gives
Saharawis the peel and to the Moroccans the fruit".
"To impose on us a solution prepared in the corridors of power without
our consent is just inadmissible", he said.
He asserted that Morocco would fail as ever "in its intentions to
dominate the Saharawi people", saying that Saharawi people right to
self-determination is the unique democratic solution to resolve the
conflict. (SPS)
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE