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Australian Labor Party calls its Federal Government to recognise SADR

25.11.04

Melbourne, 25/11/04 (SPS) The Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party adopted a motion supporting Saharawi people, during its conference that took place last Saturday in Melbourne, calling the Australian Federal Government to recognise the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), reported a close source to the Saharawi representation in Australia.

Unanimously adopted by the conference, this motion "calls on the Federal Government to recognise the Saharawi Republic (SADR) which is a fully-fledged member of the African Union (AU) and recognised by over 70 countries worldwide", noting "with great satisfaction that the republic of South Africa has extended full recognition and established diplomatic relations with Saharawi Republic on 15 September 2004", emphasised the motion.

In addition, the text exhorted "the Australian Federal Government to extend all due assistance to the UN in its efforts to organise a free and fair referendum for the people of Western Sahara", declaring "its full support to the right of the Saharawi people to self-determination and independence" and strongly deploring "the long delays, which have prevented the Saharawi people from exercising their inalienable rights through a UN conducted referendum", which failed so far to impose its resolutions relative to the conflict because of the " Moroccan obstructions and delaying tactics", indicated the motion.

On another hand the Party expressed "its deep concern for the human rights violations in the occupied areas of Western Sahara by Morocco ". Further, it called its Government "to provide humanitarian assistance to the Saharawi refugees who have been living in makeshift camps and in dire conditions", added the text.

Finally the motion called " the UN and the international community to press Morocco to accept and implement the latest UN peace plan for self-determination of the people of Western Sahara without further delay". (SPS)

060/090/000 251359 NOV 04 SPS
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SADR/SPAIN/SOLIDARITY
Opening of the 30th edition of the EUCOCO this Friday in Saragossa
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Saragossa, 25/11/2004 (SPS) The 30th European Conference of Support to Saharawi People (EUCOCO) will be held these 26, 27 and 28 November in Saragossa (north-east of Madrid) with the presence of some 500 delegates from Europe, parliament members and personalities from different countries. The conference will be in addition honoured by the presence of the President of the Republic, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz.

This encounter, the "most important so far organised with respect to the number of the participants and their levels of representation", underlined the organisers, will be held under the theme: "Right to self-determination of the Saharawi people, for a European more active role within the framework of the United Nations", reported Algerian Press Service, APS.

The conference would basically focus on the programmes of actions developed by the different European associations and collectives of solidarity with the Saharawi people for the year 2005.
 
It will also be marked by the interventions of the Minister Counsellor at the Presidency delegated to Europe, Mr. Mohamed Sidati, the President of the European Coordination of Solidarity with the Saharawi people (Task Force), Mr. Pierre Galand, and Mr. Carmelo Ramirez, President of the FEDISSAH (States Federation of Institutions supporting Saharawi people), a federation that gathers hundreds of Spanish regions and Municipalities that support the Saharawi cause.

Parliament members from all over the world will also attend this conference, such as American Republican Senator Joseph Pitts, while all the Spanish political parties had expressed their support to the conference to which tens of deputies would take part, indicated the same source. (SPS)

060/090/700 251614 NOV 04 SPS


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SADR/SPAIN
The President of the Republic expected Today in Madrid


Madrid, 25/11/2004 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, is expected today evening in Madrid for a visit during which he will meet with the President of the Spanish Government, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.

The meeting between Mr. Abdelaziz and Mr. Zapatero is expected for Friday afternoon, indicated the Saharawi representation in the Spanish Capital.

This meeting, the first between the two Heads of States, comes within the framework of "the willingness of the (Spanish) Government to resolve the problem" of Western Sahara, indicated the same source.

The settlement of the conflict in Western Sahara is considered by the Spanish executive as "vital for the interests of Spain and for the progress in the (process) of integration in the Maghreb", underlined the agency.
 
The Spanish Government is "actively implicated" in the search for a solution that is conform to the international legality, in which the UN plays a fundamental role, asserted the source EFE quoted.

"Substantially, the Government supports the UN Security Council's resolution 1541, approved last April, and which reiterated the support to the Baker Plan and stressed on the need of an accord between the two parties", emphasised the Spanish agency. (SPS)

060/090/000 251622 Nov 04 SPS

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