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SPS The youth Organisation of the Rusian Rodena Party condemns the Moroccan hindrance of the self-determination referendum 29.04.05
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Moscow, 29/04/2006 (SPS) The youth Organisation of the Rusian Rodena Party condemns the Moroccan hindrance of the self-determination referendum of the Saharawi people, as well as the repression exercised against the Saharawis in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara.
In a press release, publicised on Friday, the Organisation condemns "The obstacles erected by Morocco in front of the international community efforts for the settlement of the Western Sahara conflict and its rejection of all the political initiative that favours the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination".
"To enable the Saharawi people to exercise their right to self-determination, conforming to the UN’s resolutions, is a clear answer concerning the legal status of the Saharawi Republic", estimated the Organisation, quoted the Algerian Press Agency, APS.
Expressing its solidarity with the Saharawi people, the organisation to hail "their heroic epic all along their struggle for independence as well as their initiative for peace". (SPS)
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SPS "Failures of the attempt to deviate the decolonisation process in the Western Sahara", APS comments
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Algiers, 29/04/2006 (SPS) The UN Security Council resolution on the Western Sahara, adopted on Friday in New York, in which it reiterates its "engagement" to support the parties to the conflict (Morocco and Polisario Front) for the "self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara", constitutes "Failures of the attempt to deviate the decolonisation process in the Western Sahara", indicated Algerian Press Agency, APS.
"Confronted to a dangerous deviation of the UN", through the report of the UN Secretary General to the Security Council, which recognised the adoption of a new approach "inspired by the realpolitik" for the settlement of the question of Western Sahara, calling to quartet negotiations (between Morocco, Polisario Front, Algeria and Mauritania) to discuss a new political solution, which will apparently be similar the autonomy as advocated by Morocco, and abandoning thus 30 years of efforts and acquisitions. "Algeria has, in fact, deployed all efforts to push to failure these efforts that aim to make prevail the "realpolitik" –that is to say- consecrate the fait accompli – on the international legality", it was noted.
The resolution presented by the United States and unanimously adopted on Friday by the Security Council is "very clear", it was estimated.
"A simple technical resolution, as normally used in UN’s slang, this resolution makes no reference, explicit or implicit, to negotiations between four or even two parties, and does absolutely not mention the dangerous approach developed by the Personal Envoy before the Security Council last January the 18th, the Envoy having opposed a pretended "realpolitik" to the international legality and adopted by the Secretary General in his report to the Security Council, and does not reaffirm its support, as usual in the UN’s resolutions, to the efforts of the Secretary General and his personal Envoy", it was further stressed.
"Moreover, another premier is that in general, the Security Council endorse, approve, support the Secretary General’s report, express its satisfaction about it or to the extreme limit, takes not of it and adopt its recommendations. This time the Security Council preferred, because of the criticism the report faced, to indicate in the resolution that the Council «examined» the report and completely ignored its recommendations except for the recommendation related to the prorogation of the mandate of the MINURSO for a new six months period", the same source added.
In diplomatic terms, this means, according to the same source, that the Security Council "has simply rejected the report of the Secretary General and that it adopted Polisario Front’s vision that denounced the report, and Algeria that warned last February, through its highest authority, the President of the Republic, against the proposed approach and did not want to take part to any kind o negotiations on the Western Sahara. Moreover Algeria considered that there is no need to look for a new solution to the conflict, since the Security Council has decided, since the adoption of the resolution 1495, that the Baker Plan is the optimal political solution to this conflict and that it needs only to be implemented". (SPS)
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SPS Triumphal reception for Tamek in Assa (report)
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Assa, 29/04/2006 (SPS) The Saharawi population in Assa and militants of the main cities of the Western Sahara, received last Thursday the 27th of February 2006, the heros of the Saharawi uprising of independence, who were recently released after international pressures from Moroccan prisons, mainly Ali Salem Tamek, Massoud Laarbi, Elmekki Hassanna, Bahia Louchaa, Mahmoud Mustapha Lhaddad, Amidan Lwali, Jenhawi Lkhlifa, Bouamoud Mohamed Salem and Taher Lghzal, who were serving different sentences of imprisonment in the Moroccan Carcel Negra in the occupied city of El Aaiun.
In the entry of the city, the Saharawi population from the different ages, in official clothes gathered to organise a triumphal reception to the political prisoners.
The group of prisoners was received by gourd of camel’s milk and a plate of dates, surrounded by women cries conforming to traditions, before heading to the house of Mr. Tamek, where a popular meeting was improvised.
To the meeting, the following organisations intervened, mainly Amnesty International, Front Line for human rights defenders, the Andalusan Federation for the solidarity o the Saharawi people, a Representative of the Saharawi Diaspora in France, the Saharawi political prisoners Amidan Lwali, Elmekki Hassanna an finally Ali Salem Tamek.
The speakers renewed their attachment to the protection of human rights in the Western Sahara, to the legitimate struggle of t Saharawi people for the liberation of their country and their right to self-determination and independence, and calling on the international community to put pressures on Rabat to force it release all the Saharawi political prisoners under Moroccan custody. (SPS)
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SPS The Saharawi Prime Minister receives Algerian representatives of the civil society
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Smara camp (Saharawi refugee camps), 29/04/2006 (SPS) The Prime Minister of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, Mr. Abdelkader Taleb Omar, received an Algerian delegation composed of the Algerian Committee of support to the Saharawi people (CNASPS) and representatives of the Algerian civil society, who are undertaking a visit to the Saharawi refugee camps within the framework of an encounter of solidarity and brotherhood with the Saharawi people.
The meeting was attended by the Governor of the Smara camp, Bouchraya Beyoun, the Secretary General of the Saharawi Presidency, Daf Mohamed Fade land members of the political leadership of the Polisario Front and the Saharawi Government, as well as a delegation from the Basque country.
The Saharawi Prime Minister paid tribute to Algeria and to the President of the Algerian State, Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, for his steady support to the Saharawi just cause.
He also hailed the support of the Basque support through the presence of its delegation, stressing that this support "is a position that will be remembered by the Saharawi people for ever".
The Saharawi Prime Minister finally underlined that the resolution adopted Friday by the UN’s Security Council, "reaffirms once again the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination".
The Algerian delegation is composed by CNASPS, local elected officials, Mayors and representatives of trade unionist organisations, writers and representatives of the civil society and the different Algerian press. (SPS)
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SPS "We reaffirm our support to the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination", declares Mr. Mehrez Lamari
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Smara camp (Saharawi refugee camps), 29/04/2006 (SPS) "We reaffirm our support to the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination", declared on Saturday, the President Algerian Committee of support to the Saharawi people (CNASPS), Mr. Mehrez Lamari, during a popular meeting organised by the Governor of Smara Camp, Bouchraya Beyoun, as a reception to the Algerian delegation and to another delegation from the Basque country.
The popular meeting was also attended by the Governor of the Smara camp, Bouchraya Beyoun, the Secretary General of the Saharawi Presidency, Daf Mohamed Fade land members of the political leadership of the Polisario Front and the Saharawi Government, as well as a delegation from the Basque country.
"We also deplore the fact that the last UN Security Council’s resolution did not mention he human rights violations committed by Morocco in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara", Mr. Mehrez Lamari said.
He further denounced the "repressive practices exercised by the Moroccan colonial forces against the helpless Saharawi citizens", paying a "vibrant tribute to the heroes of the Saharawi uprising of independence, in particular Martyr Lembarki Hamdi Mahjoub, ho was assassinated by the Moroccan forces of occupation in October the 30th in El Aaiun.
The President of CNASPS and Spokesperson of the Algerian delegation, who came last Thursday to the Saharawi refugee camps to take part to an encounter of brotherhood and solidarity with the Saharawi people, hailed "the role played by the woman within the Saharawi society".
On his part, the head of the Basque delegation, Mr. Txomin Auzrekoetxa, who is the coordinator of the Basque institutions supporters of the Saharawi people, reaffirmed that they "can not leave the Saharawi people alone in their struggle for freedom and independence", adding that "we will always be by your side". (SPS).
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