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SPS The Security Council reaffirms Saharawis’ right to self-determination and prorogues the MINURSO’s mandate for 6 months 28.04.05
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New York (United Nations), 28/04/2006 (SPS) The U’s Security Council reaffirms the Saharawi people’s right to "self-determination" and recall "the responsibilities" of the implicated parties in the decolonisation of the Saharawi territory, and prorogued the mandate of the Minurso, in a resolution adopted on Friday in New York by the UN’s body.
The resolution was adopted after the publication, last Saturday, of the UN’s Secretary General’s report, in which he proposed the abandoning of all the UN’s plans elaborated to the date, and recommends negotiations between the Polisario Front and Morocco to unblock the stalemate caused by the Moroccan rejection of any solution based on the referendum.
An approach that the Security Council rejected calling instead to "a just, lasting and mutually accepted solution" that enables "the self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara" within the framework of arrangements "conform to the goals and principles stated in the United Nations’ Charter".
Polisario had stated that "Mr. Kofi Annan is leading the UN to defeat and abdication", the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, declared, calling on the UN’s Security Council to "correct this irresponsible work" (...) "this serious error by all possible legal ways", otherwise the international organisation will turn to be "a weak and unjust one". (SPS)
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SPS Polisario "satisfied" that the Security Council corrected the "drift" of Annan
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New York (United Nations), 28/04/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi Coordinator with the Minurso, Mhamed Khadad, expressed "the satisfaction" of Polisario after the adoption, Friday, by the UN’s Security Council, of a resolution that corrects "the drift" proposed in the last report of Kofi Annan, who was trying to substitute the laws of the realpolitik to the international law.
"POLISARIO Front expresses its satisfaction for the wisdom of the Council, which refuses to subscribe to the drift proposed by the report. It also expresses its gratitude to all the member States of the Security Council, which expressed their deep preoccupation in front of the deterioration of the human rights situation in the occupied territories of the Saharawi territories and supported the strict respect of the international legality in the solution of the Western Sahara", Mr. Khadad underlined.
"This resolution represents a refusal by the UN’s Security Council to the approach presented in the last report of the Secretary General, who wanted, in total violation of the international right, to deviate the decolonisation process of the Western Sahara and to bypass the Saharawi people’s will, justifying this by a «Realpolitik», and opt for the Moroccan colonial fait accompli", he underlined.
With its resolution, the Security Council reaffirm its engagement to "remain seized by the question" as well as its will to help the parties to reach a solution that enable "self-determination for the people of the Western Sahara conforming to the goals stated in the United Nations’ Charter", he underlined in a statement to SPS.
"The human rights violations and the policy of terror and repression of Morocco in the occupied zones of the Western Sahara attracted the attention of the members of the Council, who wished a wider implication of the United Nations to prorogue the defenceless Saharawi populations", Mr. Khadad stressed.
Yet, he deplored, "France, the Member State of the Council, categorically opposed any mentioning of this question in the final resolution, showing anew its blind alignment on the Moroccan colonialist thesis".
Finally, POLISARIO called on the United Nations to "pay all necessary efforts to hasten the decolonisation of the Western Sahara through the implementation of the Peace Plan for the self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara, or the Baker Plan, approved by the Security Council in its resolution 1495 (2003) of July the 31st 2003". (SPS)
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SPS US Congressmen request Rice’s "attention and action" for the settlement of the Western Sahara conflict
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WASHINGTON, 28/04/2006 (SPS) Many US congressmen asked the US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Condoleezza Rice, to "immediate attention and action" to help in the settlement of the critical situation that prevails in he Western Sahara, reported Polisario Front’s representative in Washington, Mr. Mouloud Saïd.
"We respectfully request your immediate attention and action to address this critical situation in Western Sahara", wrote some US Congressmen and Senator a week after a similar message Mrs. Rice received from another group of Senator.
"We are writing to request that the U.S. Mission to the United Nations urge the UN Security Council to immediately take action to end the continuing and escalating attacks against the Saharawi people by Moroccan security forces", they underlined, estimating that the intervention of Mrs. Rice on the question "would provide needed pressure and leadership at the U.N".
These Congressmen recalled, in their letter, the resolutions of the international community consecrating the Saharawi people’s self-determination and evoked the continuous and escalating human rights violations committed by the Moroccan forces of occupation against the Saharawis, so as to denounce "denial of basic human rights that the Saharawi people face every day" in the Western Sahara.
"We strongly believe that the United Nations Mission to the Western Sahara Minurso should take deliberate and sustained action to protect the basic rights, including security, of the Saharawi people", they added.
To the Congressmen, "Merely having a United Nations presence in the Moroccan-controlled area of Western Sahara no longer is sufficient to deter those who are committed to undermine the rights of the Saharawi people, particularly the right to self-determination. The international community must do more and must act now", they plead.
The Congressmen underlined that the right to self-determination is consecrated by many UN resolutions, the African Union and the International Court of Justice, recalling by the same occasion the role of the Minurso to organise and to supervise a referendum, giving the free choice of the Saharawi people.
"While movement towards a referendum continues to be stalled, including, but not only due to diplomatic inertia within the United Nations, we believe that it is crucial that the necessary efforts be made to ensure that a free, fair, and transparent referendum is held", in the Western Sahara, the Congressmen stressed in the letter they sent to the Head of the US diplomacy. (SPS)
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SPS Algeria satisfied about the adoption by the Security Council of a resolution on the Western Sahara conflict
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Algiers, 28/04/2006 (SPS) Algiers expressed its "satisfaction", on Friday, after the adoption by the UN Security Council of a new resolution on the Western Sahara, affirming that "the resolution comes within the right line of the former UN positions", reported Algerian Press Agency, APS.
"This resolution comes within the right line of the former UN positions, which establish the nature of the conflict as a decolonisation question, and consecrating the imprescriptible right of the people of the Western Sahara to self-determination and stating the needed conditions of a just and definitive solution to the conflict", the spokesperson of the Algerian Ministry for Foreign Affairs underlined in a statement publicised after the adoption of the new resolution adopted by the Security Council.
The Minister added that by recalling the former resolutions of the Security Council, in particular the resolution 1495 in which it approved the Baker Plan for the self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara, elaborated by Mr. James Baker. The Security Council has "brought a new validation of this plan as an optimal political solution to the question of the Western Sahara".
Thus, the text stressed, "the Security Council marked its attachment to the international legality, reaffirming its responsibility towards the people of the Western Sahara conforming to the UN Charter and resolutions".
"In this respect, Algeria exhorted the two parties to the conflict to accept and implement the Baker Plan, which offers the adequate framework for the just and definitive settlement", the statement declared. (SPS)
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SPS Meting between Algerian and Saharawi elected in the Saharawi refugees
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27 February School (refugee camps), 28/04/2006 (SPS) Meetings between Saharawi and Algerian elected officials were organised on Friday in the refugee camps, as a sign of solidarity with the Saharawi cause.
These meetings comes within the framework of the strengthening of the ties of cooperation and solidarity between the two peoples, Algerian and Saharawi, and so as to reaffirm the full support of Algeria, people and Government, to the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination. It is also an opportunity to all elected officials to exchange experiences.
In the programme of these meetings, organised in the sea of the Saharawi Women Union in the 27 February School, a debate on the different questions linked to the management of the elected popular assemblies, and the transfer of the experience of the Algerian n the refugee camps, will be organised.
The Algerian delegation is composed of 102 representatives of APC and APW, members of the national committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people and artists, were warmly received by the populations of the 27 February School and the Wilaya of El Aaiun where an evening show was organised.
Mr. Mahrez Lamari, President of the Algerian National Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS) indicated in an intervention that the "the presence of this delegation is a message of solidarity with the Saharawi people and introduce a deep adhesion to the just cause of the Western Sahara".
On his side, the Secretary General of the Saharawi Presidency, Daf Mohamed Fadel, affirmed that "this gesture of solidarity sincerely expressed the firm position of Algeria towards the Saharawi cause as well as the permanent support".(SPS)
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