SPS SADR/NATIONAL
RADIO/ANNIVERSARY "Fairness and Reconciliation"
wants to discharge Morocco of his crimes against Saharawis, declares
Abdelaziz
27.12.04
Chahid El Hafed, 27/12/2004
(SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, declared Monday
evening that "Saharawi people alone can decide over its destiny",
denouncing Moroccan Government's attempts to get rid of its
responsibilities of the systematic human rights violations in Western
Sahara through "the so called will of reconciliation".
Mr. Abdelaziz, who was the honour guest to the ceremony of the
commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the National Radio, organised
at the seat of the Ministry for Information, underlined in his
intervention that "it is up to Saharawi people, and Saharawi people
alone, to decide over their destiny" through a referendum on
self-determination supervised and organised by the United Nations,
reiterating the support of his Government to the Baker Plan and
expressing its disposition to cooperate with the United Nations towards
the fair and definitive settlement to the conflict.
Warning the Saharawi population in occupied territories against "the
attempts of Morocco, who searches by the so called Committee of
Fairness and Reconciliation to get rid of its responsibilities in the
systematic human rights' violations in Western Sahara, which is the
result of its invasion and illegal occupation of our territory", Mr.
Abdelaziz called the Saharawi people to "get together and strengthen
the unity to push to failure this new colonial attack, which targets to
legitimise the Moroccan fait accompli", in occupied territories of
Western Sahara.
The Moroccan Government "has got all the right to manage its internal
problems, including to try to correct its mistakes and blatant
violations of Moroccan people's rights, but it has got absolutely no
right to try to do the same thing in Occupied Territories of Western
Sahara without the consent of all Saharawi people, who must first have
access to their inalienable right to self-determination and
independence", underlined Mr. Abdelaziz.
In this respect, he exhorted the Saharawi victims of Moroccan exactions
and violations to remain "unified against their torturers" and to
reject all the attempts of this Body, "which is only a Moroccan
colonial structure who tries to discharge the Moroccan Government of
the crimes it committed against the Saharawi people", who is still
"suffering abuses and violations of his rights, daily, by the Makhzen's
regime of Mohamed VI", added President Abdleaziz.
On another hand, the Head of the State congratulated the Saharawi
journalists and workers in the field of information for the "services
they continue offering to their cause and people to make its voice
heard all over the world by all means in their disposition", exhorting
them to increase the efforts so as "to unveil to the international
opinion the lies of the Moroccan colonialism who continues hiding the
reality of its colonial fait accompli, dissimulate its barbarism and
launch campaigns of denigration against the Saharawi people and its
national institutions".
The commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the National Radio was
held Monday evening at the seat of the Ministry of Information at
Chahid El Hafed with the presence of members of the National
Secretariat, the Government, Parliament and civil and military
officials and personalities besides the staff of the Ministry and
Saharawi journalists.
In addition to a visit by the guests to the seats of the different
departments of the Ministry, the ceremony was marked by the
distribution of certificates of gratitude and merits to many Saharawi
journalists and national personalities who contributed or collaborated
to the success of the National Radio, without forgetting to pay a
special tribute to the Martyrs of the field. (SPS)
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE