SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

San Sebastian 27/06/04 (SPS) the baker Plan is not "the ideal solution, but a process that can allow new perspectives in the region", declared, Boukhari Ahmed, Saturday, in San Sebastian's conference Spanish and saharawi twinned Institutions and communities organised in the 24 and 25 June.

Polisario Front's permanent representative to UN, Boukhari Ahmed, explained to the participants to San Sebastian's conference that the settlement of the Saharawi case "unavoidably comes through the enforcement of a peace process based on the principle of self-determination".
 
Boukhari maintained that the Baker Plan is not the "ideal" solution, it only represent "a peaceful way" based on the principle of self-determination to Saharawi people.

Asked about the fate of this plan, he warned that "the success of the mentioned plan depends on the position of Paris".

Referring to recent statements produced by Moroccan Foreign Affairs Minister after baker's resignation, Bukhari said this statements intervenes so as to influence the position of Algeria, which "remains, however, faithful to its principles", especially to people's right to self-determination.

The Saharawi diplomat clearly said that "the parties to the conflict, as far as UN is concerned, are SADR and Morocco", stressing that Algeria and Mauritania are only "observer States of the peace process", and are only concerned about the conflict as neighbouring countries to Western Sahara. (SPS)

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Le Polisario espère que la libération des 100 prisonniers de guerre marocains trouve un écho favorable auprès du Maroc

Alger, 27/06/04 (SPS) Le Président de la République, M. Mohamed Abdelaziz, a espéré que l'initiative de la libération par le Polisario de 100 prisonniers de guerre marocains, "trouve un écho favorable chez le Gouvernement marocain", a rapporté le journal algérien "l'Expression" dans son édition du vendredi.

Invité du Forum d'El Djazaïr News, organisé au Centre International de Presse à Alger, M. Abdelaziz, a tenu à rappeler que la dernière libération de 100 prisonniers de guerre marocains démontre une fois de plus la bonne volonté du Polisario à coopérer avec la communauté internationale, appelant le Maroc à libérer les 150 prisonniers sahraouis et à faire la lumière sur le sort de 500 civils  sahraouis disparus, dont l'existence est toujours nié par le Maroc.

Le Chef de l'Etat a, par ailleurs, précisé, que la démission de James Baker n'est autre que l'une des conséquences de "l'entêtement et de l'obstination du Maroc avec la complicité de la France", dans le rejet d'une "solution pacifique et des décisions des Nations unies" relatives aux règlement du conflit du Sahara occidental.
 
Concernant la possibilité de reprise des armes dans le cas où le Maroc
S'obstinerait à garder ses "lignes rouges", Abdelaziz, a averti que son peuple s'en remettra aux armes si le Maroc persiste à nier ses droits légitimes, affirmant que le Polisario, en privilégiant le processus de paix, avait remis le conflit devant l'arbitrage de l'ONU, demeure attaché à la légalité internationale mais ne cèdera jamais au droit du peuple sahraoui à l'autodétermination et à l'indépendance. (SPS)

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France makes use of its right to Veto to erect obstacles to UN's resolutions, declared The President of the State

Algiers, 27/06/04 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, criticised the French position regarding the conflict in Western Sahara, reiterating Polisario Front's wiliness to restore peace in the region resorting to international legality and in application to pertienent UN's resolutions.

Invited, on Thursday, to Arabic speaking newspaper Djazair News, the Head of State regretted France easy "use of its right to Veto so as to make UN's resolutions inapplicable" whenever Western Sahara's question is concerned, while it calls, as a superpower, for the respect of the same UN's resolutions in other conflicts.

Although Morocco persists in challenging international community's will and "refuse to comply with" UN's resolutions, France sees no incoherence in backing Rabat's expansionist thesis, in complete "obstruction to the restitution of peace in Western Sahara", instead of convincing it respect international legality, he said.

"French influence within Security Council in favour of Morocco does not help in calming the situation down in the region, and additionally complicate the search for a fair and profitable solution to the two parties and to all neighbouring countries", he deplored.

Polisario Front, in the contrary, will continue working to "restore peace resorting to peaceful ways", as it has recently proved by releasing 100 Moroccan prisoners of war, and will continue cooperating with the international community in the search of a just and lasting solution to the conflict within the framework of the UN and in compliance with its relevant resolutions, he underlined. (SPS)

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