SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Madrid, 27/04/2004 (SPS) The Spanish Popular Party (PP) and the Unified Left (IU - in Spanish) called the Spanish Head of the executive, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, to maintain the position of support to the self-determination of the Saharawi people adopted by the former government.

The person in charge of international relationships of the PP, Jorge Moragas, stressed in a statement to Europe Press, publicised in the 23rd of April, on «the importance of the thorny conflict in Western Sahara in the diplomatic relationships between Spain and Morocco », calling his new Government not to «modify the national position on this matter».

«I hope that the socialist government, in its impulse to satisfy other countries, would not unilaterally change the Spanish position concerning Western Sahara, or discharge itself of an important element of our foreign policy and our position which is relying on UN to reach an agreement between the parties».
 
On another hand, the Federal spokesperson of the Spanish Unified Left (IU), Felipe Alcaraz, expressed his « preoccupation » about the silence of Mr. Zapatero concerning Western Sahara's question in front of his Moroccan interlocutors during the brief visit he made to Morocco last Saturday.

Mr. Alcaraz indicated that his party will continue working so as Saharawis «could recover their territory and their rights», asking Mr. Zapatero for «more lucidity in the future», he put, as cited by Europa Press. (SPS)

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SADR/UN/SECURITY COUNCIL
Mr. Khadad held a meeting with the President of the Security Council in New York

New York (United Nations), 27/04/2004 (SPS) The Coordinator with the Minurso, Member of Polisario Front's National Secretariat, M'Hamed Khadad, held a meeting on Monday with the President of the Security Council, to whom he transmitted the position of the Polisario Front concerning the evolutions
of the peace process in the light of the last report of UN's Secretary General, publicised last Friday.

The «Group of friends» who met on Monday afternoon, chaired by the United States of America, had currently studied a project of a resolution, in order to present it to the Security Council, which is expected to meet on Tuesday to examine the Secretary General's report, it was said.

The reunion with the Security Council's President took place in the presence of Polisario Front's Representative to the UN, Boukhari Ahmed, and many members of the German diplomatic mission.

Moreover, the Saharawi delegation had had other contacts, the same day, with ambassadors of many permanent and non-permanent members of the Security Council, in the light of the adoption of a new resolution on Western Sahara, expected for this 30th April, it was indicated. (SPS)

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