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SPS "The Saharawi cause is a cause for all Africa", declared the President of the Pan African Parliament 26.11.06
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Midrand (South Africa), 26/11/2006 (SPS) The President of the Pan African Parliament, Mrs. Gertrude Mongela, declared on Saturday that the "Saharawi cause is a cause for all Africa", because it is a question of the decolonisation of the last colony in the continent, estimating that "colonialism must be definitively rejected away from the African continent and the independence of the Western Sahara must be imposed", indicated a close source of the Saharawi Embassy in South Africa.
Mrs. Mongela, who received the Saharawi human rights activist, Ali Salem Tamek, in the seat of the African Parliament, and expressed her "preoccupation in front of the human rights violations committed by Morocco in the Western Sahara", the same source stressed.
On his side, the Saharawi militant expressed "on behalf of the Saharawi human rights activists in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, their recognition to Africa and to the Pan African Parliament for the extraordinary role these two bodies play in favour of the Saharawi people".
Mr. Tamek presented to Mrs. Mongela a complete dossier on the crimes perpetrated by the Moroccan regime of occupation against the Saharawi civilians. He stressed that this population are daily suffering reprisals since the start of the Intifada of independence in May 21st 2005".
"We are convinced that Africa can and must play a vanguard role in the resolution of this conflict. Africa can not accept the crimes committed by Morocco against an African country, which is the Western Sahara", he said. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 261620 Nov 06 SPS
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SPS The ANC reaffirms its support to the independence of the Western Sahara
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Lithuli House (South Africa), 26/11/2006 (SPS) The Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC), Kgalema Motlanthe, expressed on Friday the position of support of his party to the struggle of the Saharawi people for their freedom and independence, estimating that this position is "the consecration of the positions of the militants of the two revolutions and of their sacrifices since the seventies up to this date", reported a close source from the Saharawi Embassy in South Africa.
Mr. Motlanthe, who received the Saharawi human rights activist, Ali Salem Tamek, at the seat of the ANC in "Lithuli House", renewed "the mobilisation of the ANC besides the Polisario Front for the freedom and independence".
He said he was in particular "horrified by the detailed testimony of the Saharawi activist on the human rights violations committed by the Moroccan Government", the same source said.
The Saharawi human rights militant, Ali Salem Tamek, was received in Johannesburg by the Secretary General of the National Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), Mahlomola Skhosana, the same source indicated.
"The ANC remains attached to its principled positions supporting the Saharawi people for freedom and independence and continues to wait for the day of the independence of the Saharawi people on their territory, if not, none among us can really enjoy freedom as ln as your people remains under occupation", Mr. Mothlante wrote in a letter to the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz last February, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Saharawi Republic.
South Africa has got diplomatic relations with the Saharawi Republic at an ambassadorial level since September the 15th 2004, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/000/TRD 261530 Nov 06 SPS
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SPS USA and France must contribute to the settlement of the conflict of the Western Sahara (Bastagli)
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London, 26/11/2006 (SPS) The United States of America and France must make use of their influence to prompt the Security Council into robust action that would lead to a settlement to the conflict of the Western Sahara during the first months of the mandate of the new Secretary General of the UN, declared on Saturday the ex-Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for the Western Sahara, Mr. Francesco Bastagli to the "International Herald Tribune".
Mr. Bastagli, who was designate as the Head of the MINURSO from August 2005 until August 2006, estimated that it is imperative to subscribe the Saharawi cause in the priorities of the Security Council, calling the USA, which begins to give a particular interest to the Western Sahara, and France which is the main supporter of Morocco, to use their influence t prompt the UN Security Council undertake the needed measures for the settlement of the Western Sahara conflict.
Evoking the obstacles that hinder the self-determination of the Western Sahara, Mr. Batagli blamed some influent countries within the Security Council which support the colonial thesis of Morocco in the Western Sahara.
The United States gives a special interest to the Western Sahara since 2004, the date when James Baker presented his peace plan rejected by Morocco, he recalled.
Mr. Bastagli finally recalled all the international efforts that aimed to resolve the conflict on the basis of the self-determination of the Saharawi people and conforming to the recognition by the UN of the Western Sahara as a Non-Self-Governing territory.
The British newspaper recalled that Morocco has hindered the holding of the referendum it agreed upon with Polisario Front within the framework of the UN settlement plan of 1991.
SAHARA PRESS SERVICEHe recalled that "the natural resources of the territory, which under the UN Charter should be used for the sole benefit of the Saharawi people, are being exploited by Morocco". (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 260934 nov 06 SPS
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SPS The Legislative Assembly of Emilie Romagne calls for the recognition of the Saharawi Republic
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Roma, 26/11/2006 (SPS) The Legislative Assembly of the autonomous Italian region, Emilie Romagne, called on the Government of Mr. Romano Prodi to recognise the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and undertake concrete diplomatic and political actions within the European Union in favour of the full exercise by the Saharawi people of their right to self-determination.
In a document, unanimously approved by the members of the Assembly (all political tendencies included), the Assembly exhorted the Italian Government to support the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination through the organisation of a referendum, as indicated in the Baker Plan and reaffirmed by the different UN’s resolutions.
It further called on the European Union to exercise pressures on Morocco so as to stop the intimidations and human rights violations against the Saharawi population in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
The text also called on the European community to assume its responsibilities vis-à-vis the Saharawi people, knowing that the European Union-Morocco accords of association are basically funded on the respect of the human rights and on the respect of the U’s resolutions.
The text urged the Italian Government to pay all necessary efforts to prompt Morocco stop denying the access to the territory to international delegations and Medias.
The legislative Assembly of Emilie Romagne stressed the urgency of undertaking "clear and irrevocable" measures to put an end to the sufferings of the Saharawi population and to avoid a dangerous destabilisation of the entire region.
The document also asks for an important humanitarian aid to the Saharawi refugees, and to an active participation to the preparation of the next Conference of the European Coordination of support to the Saharawi people (EUCOCO), which will take place in Italy in 2007. (SPS)
010/090/700/TRD 260925 NOV 06 SPS
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