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SPS President Mugabe receives Prescient Mohamed Abdelaziz’s Envoy 25.05.05
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Harare, 25/05/2006 (SPS) The President of Zimbabwe, H.E. Robert Mugabe, received, on Wednesday at his residency, State House, the Secretary General of the Saharawi Foreign Affairs Minister, Mohamed Yeslem Beissat, in his quality of envoy of the President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, to his Zimbabwean counterpart, indicated a Saharawi official source.
President Mugabe renewed the "firm position" of his country in the support and solidarity with the Saharawi people in their struggle for freedom and independence, underlining that "Africa will never be free as long as the Saharawi Republic is not sovereign".
After his meeting with the Zimbabwean President, Mr. Beissat declared that he handed over a letter to President Mugabe that tackled the bilateral relations, the last developments of the situation in the Western Sahara and other subjects of mutual concern.
He finally underlined the historical support of the Republic of Zimbabwe to the Saharawi Republic and the ties of friendship between the two peoples and countries based on the common struggle for freedom and independence. (SPS)
020/090/100/TRD 251420 May 2006
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SPS A Saharawi NGO called for the protection of the Saharawis in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 25/05/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Association of the victims of the flagrant crimes committed by the Moroccan State (ASVVGDHCEM) called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Tuesday, to « widely » publish the results of the work of its delegation to the Western Sahara and to adopt recommendations to "limit the human rights violations and purpose mechanisms for that purpose".
The NGO also called on the Moroccan State to subscribe to the international legality, respect the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination conforming to the international Charter.
It further alerted against "the repercussions of an escalation of racism against the Saharawis", especially within the Moroccan security corps, according to a press release the association publicised on Tuesday.
The ASVVGDHCEM also waned again "escalation of the abuse of the use of power and the blockage of procedures of investigation" in hundreds cases and complaints the Moroccan courts receive, estimating that this reality "aggravate the situation and encourage the Moroccan secret services and security forces to make excessive use of force so as to stop the demonstrations without fearing from kind of legal pursuit", the same source added.
The Saharawi Association « vividly » denounced the « violent » repression of a demonstration that took place on May the 17th 2006, while the delegation of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights was receiving some Saharawi activists. It expressed its solidarity with the victims of the violations and with their families.
The text finally called on the international community, the UN Security Council and the UN Secretary General to assume their moral and legal responsibilities vis-ŕ-vis the Saharawi people. It called on them to adopt "all necessary measures" to protect the Saharawi civilians, who are in fact "under the legal and direct responsibility" of the international bodies. (SPS)
020/090/110 251830 May 06 SPS
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