SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Algiers, 28/09/2004 (SPS) Algerian Minister of State, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Abdelaziz Belkhadem, declared that "Any solution (to Western Sahara's conflict) out of the peace plan is devoted to failure", considering that the memorandum Morocco addressed last Sunday to UN's Secretary General is no more than a new manoeuvre "to block the process" of decolonisation of Western Sahara.

In an interview to Algerian newspaper El Watan, in its Tuesday edition, Mr. Belkhadem stressed that the memorandum Morocco has recently addressed to UN's Secretary General, is "obsolete", and "does not bring new element to the file of Western Sahara".
       
"It is just a set of obsolete arguments, already outdated by the evolution of Western Sahara question within the UN and denied by the recognition of the international community of the illegal aspect of the occupation of this territory". He emphasised further that the question of Western Sahara remains a case of unachieved decolonisation.

The international community has always stressed on "the illegal aspect of the occupation of this territory, of which the UN remains concerned via its 4th Commission as a non autonomous territory that comes under the resolution 1514 and peoples right's to dispose of themselves", he underlined.
         
The Head of the Algerian diplomacy reiterated that the position of his country was "recalled through the letter addressed by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika in August the 17th to the UN's Secretary General and more recently during his speech in front of the 59th session of the UN's General Assembly". 
 
He finally recalled that UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Mr. James Baker, has resigned his post "because of the Moroccan attitude" that seeks by all means to set obstacles in front of UN's efforts for a just and peaceful solution to the conflict. (SPS)

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