|
|
 |
SPS 29.09.04
|
|
Madrid, 29/09/2004
(SPS) A group of writers representing the world of culture in Spain
will deliver this Thursday to the seat of the Spanish presidency a new
list of signatories of the letter already sent last July the 19th to
Jose Luis Zapatero, reported the Algerian press agency, APS, quoting
the coordinators of this initiative, Mr. Ricardo Gomez and Mr. Gonzalo
Moure.
This new list, indicated Gomez and Moure, of a hundred new signatories,
of whom José Saramago, Fedérico Mayor Zaragoza,
Belen Gopegui, Antonio Gala, Juan Genoves and Javier Sadaba.
The new list is an addition to a first list, in which some 200 writers
(now 400), journalists, playwrights and artists who "firmly" called the
Spanish President of the Government to back a solution that "put an
end, at once, to the exile of Saharawi people" and that would no longer
allow "prorogation" of the referendum on self-determination which is
planed by the United nations in Western Sahara.
Concerning the new figures who expressed their solidarity with the
Saharawi people, Gomez et Moure recalled that Jose Saramago, Literature
Nobel Price winner, "is an ethic reference in his country and around
the world", and has considered in many occasion that "Spain should play
the same role assumed by Portugal which has backed the organisation of
a referendum in East Timor".
Fedérico Mayor Zaragoza, President of the Foundation Culture of
Peace and Director of the UNESCO, who is known by "his independence in
judgement", adhered the initiative of the letter in a "crucial moment
of Western Sahara destiny and of the position of Spain", they affirmed.
The representatives of the writers expressed their "enthusiasm of the
way the initiative was received by all the society and the comfort it
represents to Saharawis of the occupied zones and of the refugees'
camps as well as to the thousands of Spanish families who received
Saharawi children in their houses" for the summer within the framework
of the programme 'holidays in peace'.
According to the same source, this new list of writers will be added to
another letter of the Association of former soldiers of the Spanish
army of Ifni-Sahara and a list of the first two thousand citizens who
signed the letter "from Spain and different regions of the world as
well as from occupied territories and the refugees' camps".
The ceremony of the delivery of the letter will be realised in the
presence of the UN's Ambassadress of Peace, the Spanish singer Cristina
del Valle, it was indicated. (SPS)
060/090/700 292010 Sept 04 SPS
|
|
SAHARA
PRESS SERVICE