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SPS "Polisario Front has no concession to give concerning the right to self-determination", declares Mohamed Abdelaziz. 30.04.05
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Chahid el Hafed, 29/04/2006 (SPS) The President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, reaffirmed, on Saturday, that the "Polisario Front has no concession to give concerning the right to self-determination", estimating that "the Baker Plan, in our point of view, remains the optimal solution".
"The Security Council reaffirms that the problem of the Western Sahara will find its settlement through the respect of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination and consequently it reiterated that it is attached to the resolution 1495 consecrating the Baker Plan", the Head of the State underlined.
"We are ready to negotiate with Morocco but only about technical questions to implement the Baker Plan or the UN’s Settlement Plan of 1991", Mohamed Abdelaziz added.
The Saharawi President "expressed his satisfaction" after the vote within the Security Council of a resolution reaffirming the Saharawi people right to self-determination, since it "rejected the UN’s Secretary General’s preposition presented last week", Mr. Abdelaziz declared in a statement to the press at the seat of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic.
In his report on the Western Sahara publicised last April the 19th, Mr. Annan recommended that Morocco and Polisario Front engage in "direct negotiations to unblock the actual stalemate", he recalled.
The UN’s Secretary general’s preposition had as goal to take the problem of the Western Sahara out of its natural framework, mainly the decolonisation and self-determination", the Head of the State added.
On another hand, Mr. Abdelaziz hailed the support of Algeria to the Saharawi cause. "Algeria is a great country on the international scene when it is a question to defend the international legality and the UN’s Charter", he affirmed.
Mr. Abdelaziz also denounced "the role played by France" at the Security Council, regretting the fact that "the France of human rights refused to mention the human rights in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, in the text of the resolution adopted on Friday".
He finally called on the international community to "exercise pressures on Morocco to compel it implement the UN resolutions, especially through the adoption of sanctions against Rabat". (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 301020 Avr 06 SPS
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SPS Algerian press hails the UN Security Council confirmation of Saharawi people’s right to self-determination
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Algiers, 30/04/2006 (SPS) Titles of the Algerian press hailed, in their Saturday editions, the confirmation by the UN Security Council of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination through the holding of a referendum, ignoring the UN Secretary General’s report.
Under the title "the slap", the newspaper «Liberté» estimated that "it is for the first time, in a plenary session of the Security Council, that the Secretary General receives such a slap".
To the newspaper, the highest body of the UN satisfied the whole world by backing the principle of self-determination of the Saharawi people, avoiding thus Rabat « cries of victory », and while Paris and Madrid were venting to have succeeded in passing the UN Secretary General’s report.
The writer of the article underlined that "what happened yesterday (Friday) is the victory of the international legality".
« Le Quotidien d'Oran », which underlined "the failure of the king", wrote: "the resolution presented by the United States and unanimously adopted on Friday by the Security Council is «so clear»". It noted that "this resolution did not refer, in any way, to negotiations" nor did it mention the dangerous approach proposed by the Secretary General in his report to the Security Council.
Under the title "the Security Council issues its verdict", the Algerian newspaper «l'Expression» wrote that the international body "cut the pear in two by accepting the principle of the opening of new negotiations, between Morocco and Polisario, stressing that these negotiations have to reach the self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara".
"The security Council fails Kofi Annan machination", concluded the newspaper, "le Soir d'Algérie", to which "this betrayal" of the Secretary General, "even though annulated by the USA, Russia, China and the UK, will certainly let traces in some parts of the world".
« Le Jeune Indépendant », underlined in it title that "the international legality supplant the «realpolitik»", the newspaper wrote: "Though it did not resolve the problem the resolution of last Friday had the advantage to clarify an important question, the solution will not be to the detriment of the principle of self-determination stated in the UN’s Charter". (SPS)
010/090/700 301056 avr 06 SPS
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