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Nairobi (Kenya), 25/06/2005 (SPS)
The Republic of Kenya and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR)
announced the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two
countries at ambassadorial level, Saturday in a joint communiqué issued from
Kenyan Capital "Nairobi".
The Republic of Kenya, which has a prestigious figure among the African
family for its contribution in the liberation of the continent under
the leadership of the late Jomo Kenyata, is a country that plays an
important role in favour of peace and stability in Africa.
This recognition, that intervenes at a moment when the UN still is
hesitating in the implementation of its resolutions for the
decolonisation of Western Sahara because of the intransigence of
Morocco, "is a strong message from Africa to the international
community, especially to the Security Council, requiring positive
results out of the peace process the United Nations initiated 14 years
ago", officially underlined a diplomatic source to SPS.
It is also a fraternal solidarity and comfort from Africa to the
Saharawi people, especially in this moment when it suffers a pitiless
and sanguinary repression besides the bitterness of occupation", the
same source added, indicating that the independence of Western Sahara
"will enable the turning of the last page of colonisation in Africa".
(SPS)
060/090/100 251221 June 05 SPS
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El Aaiun, 25/06/2005 (SPS Human
Rights Rafto Price 2002, Sidi Mohamed Daddach, launched an urgent
appeal to the Norwegian Foundation, Rafto for Human Rights and other
similar human rights’ organisations through the world so as to demand
from the Moroccan Government the "immediate and unconditional release
of Saharawi political prisoners", indicated a press release by Mr.
Daddach.
"I call for the release of all Saharawi political detainees, especially
the human rights’ militant, Mrs. Aminetou Haidar", he underlined in the
press release, of which SPS received a copy.
He also asked for the respect "of the basic detention conditions in
Moroccan prisons", and that the penitentiary authorities "enable the
families and the compatriots of the detainees to visit them".
He stressed in particular on human rights activists recently arrested
by Morocan colonial authorities, who are "targets to fierce repression,
persecution, arrests and intimidation".
The Rafto Price also denounced "the state of siege" imposed on the
Saharawi territory under Moroccan colonisation since 1975, and required
"the freedom of movement and expression for the Saharawi human rights
activists".
Rafto Price was created in 1986 by the Foundation that bares the name
of the Norwegian professor, Thorolf Rafto, who dedicated a great party
of his existence to the defence of human rights, it should be recalled.
(SPS)
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Roma, 25/06/2005 (SPS) The person in
charge for External Relations in the Italian General Confederation of
Labour (CGIL- in French), Titti Di Salvo, called the Italian Government
and European Union to intervene vis-à-vis Morocco so as to "put
an end to the repression and favour negotiations that guarantee peace
and independence in Western Sahara".
In a written statement SPS received, Mr. Di Salvo expressed particular
"preoccupation" about "Moroccan police and army repression against
peaceful demonstrations of protest organised by Saharawi population who
only claim for their own right to self-determination".
"The high number of arrests and acts of discrimination worsen the
already dramatic situation and makes its each time more difficult to
reach a peaceful and negotiated solution to the conflict", Mr. Di Salvo
said.
On another hand, the text deplored "the expulsion of foreign
delegations and Parliamentarians from European countries, who wanted to
visit the Saharawi territory to have an idea about the situation".
CGIL regrets the fact that the Moroccan Government "invests
considerable resources to strengthen its occupation of the territory to
the detriment of the development and improvement of the conditions of
its people and to the detriment of the establishment of a strong
political and economic union in the Maghreb".
Finally, the CGIL launched an appeal to all trade unions in the
countries concerned by the development of close Euro-Mediterranean
relations to "back a dialogue that should result in a just and peaceful
solution to the conflict within the spirit of the defence of peace and
development". (SPS)
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Chahid El Hafed, 25/06/2005 (SPS)
Saharawi Union of Jurists (UJS) called on the UN to send a committee of
investigation on the savage campaign of repression led by Moroccan
authorities against Saharawi civil population in occupied territories
of Western Sahara, reported a press release by the organisation, of
which SPS received a copy.
UJS also condemned the Moroccan campaign aiming at "forcing to silence
Saharawi human rights activists" in Western Sahara and called
international organisations to denounce and put an end "to these
inhuman practices against the helpless Saharawi population". (SPS)
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