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SPS Arrival of the President of the Republic in Banjul to take part to the AU Summit 30.06.05
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(Special Envoy)
Banjul, 30/06/2006 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdeklaziz, arrived on Friday afternoon to Banjul to take part to the African Union Summit, which will take place in the Gambian Capital from July the 1st and the 2nd.
The Head of the State was received at the airport by the vice-president of Gambia, Mrs. Aissata N’Jaye Sede, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lamine Kaba, the President of the Parliament, as well as many Gambian high politicians.
Mr. Abdelaziz was also received by the Saharawi Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, the SG of the Ministry, Mohamed Yeslem Beissat, the Saharawi Ambassador to the AU, Breika Lehbib and the Ambassador to Nigeria, Alioune Habib Kentawi.
At the gate of his residency in Gambia, the Head of the State was also received by the Gambian Minister of Interior, Baboukar Jatta, who came to welcome him.
The African countries expressed, on Wednesday during the session of the Executive Council of the African Union, their support to the question of the Western Sahara presented by the African Union’s Commission, which remain "concerned" in front of the persistent impasse in the peace process.
The report also underlined that the situation in which the peace process of the Western Sahara is "deserves the biggest attention from the international community, which must act urgently to enable the people of the Western Sahara, conforming to the international legality and to the UN’s Security Council’s resolutions", it should be recalled. (SPS)
010/BNJ/000/TRD 301836 June 06 SPSSPS
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SPS Trial of 5 Saharawi political prisoners is reported to July the 13th
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Agadir (south of Morocco), 30/06/2006 (SPS) The trial of 5 Saharawi political prisoners in detention in the prison of Inzegan, which was planed for Thursday, was reported by the appealing court of Agadir to next July the 13th, concordant sources reported.
These political prisoners were arrested last April and continue to be incarcerated in the prison of Inzegan without judgement, the same sources indicated.
The prisoners are: Najiaa Lbachir, El Khorchi Wissi, Lmansouri Driss, Tamek Mohamed, Kjout Brahim.
The five Saharawi political prisoners were led in the morning to the appealing court of Agadir to be transported again to the prison of Inzegan after the postponement of the trial for two weeks, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/110/TRD 301030 June 06 SPS
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SPS The Moroccan authorities redouble their arrest against the Saharawi citizens
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El Aaiun (occupied territories), 30/06/2006 (SPS) The Moroccan forces of occupation arrested 12 persons at least during demonstrations that took place on Wednesday evening in the occupied capital of the Saharawi Republic, El Aaiun, to claim for the "immediate withdrawal" of the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara, concordant sources indicated.
The arrested persons were led to a police station in El Aaiun to be submitted to interrogations and torture by the Moroccan forces of repression, the same sources indicated.
According to the same information only four of the 12 arrested persons were identified, mainly Mohamed Saleh Lehbib Berkan, Bouhriga Tarek, Ould Bourial, Ould Lansari.
The Moroccan colonial forces also proceeded to the ransacking of the house of the family of Mr. Mohamed Saleh Lehbib Berkan, who was attacked by 40 policemen under the commandment of the famous Moroccan torturer, Ichi Abou Al Hassan.
On another hand, the Moroccan colonial authorities threatened the fathers of the families to be dismissed of their works and f the suspension of their salaries, "in case their sons participate to any demonstrations in favour of the independence of the Western Sahara", the same sources underlined.
In Bojador, 2 persons were arrested during students demonstrations to protest against the final results of the school year 2006-2007, which were not in very positive for the Saharawi students, as a punishment "against their participation to peaceful demonstrations asking for the self-determination", according to the parents of these students.
The forces directly intervened against the Saharawi students, an arrested the President of the local section of the Saharawi Association of the Victims of the Flagrant Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State, the ex-political prisoner, Tahlil Mohamed ad Ahmed Lehmeid Hamya.
The Moroccan forces also tortured the Saharawi citizens: Abdelmaoula El Hafidi (ex-political prisoner), Bouta Khaya, oultana Khaya and Aichetou Mohamed Soueidi. (SPS)
020/090/110/ 301240 Jun 06 SPS
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SPS Arrival of the Saharawi children in Italy for vacation
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Roma, 30/06/2006 (SPS) A group of 250 Saharawi children from the Saharawi refugee camps arrived on Friday to Roma to spend the summer vacations, on the initiative of the Association of solidarity with the Saharawi people (ANSPS), reported the Algerian Press Agency, APS, on Friday.
Representatives of many Italian associations as well as the hosting families from different Italian regions were present in the airport of Fiumicino to receive the Saharawi children aged between 8 to 12 years old.
A second group will arrive to Italy on July t 8, raising the number of the Saharawi children to spend their vacation in Italy to 515.
In addition to the activities planed for the Saharawi children in the regions of Italy, they will do medical checks, it was indicated. (SPS)
20/090/700/TRD 301530 June 06 SPSSPS
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SPS An African support to the AU Commission report on the Western Sahara
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Banjul, 30/06/2006 (SPS) African countries expressed their support to the report on the Western Sahara, presented by the AU Commission, which remains "concerned" in front of the persistent impasse that the peace process is facing, "what causes frustration to the people of the Western Sahara", reported the Algerian Press Service, APS, on Thursday.
The pertinence of this report that was presented to the African Council of Ministers by the President of the AU Commission, Mr. Alpha Oumar Konaré, was stressed by the Algerian Minister delegated in charge of the Maghreb and African Affairs, Mr. Abdelkader Messahel, who recalled that the question of the Western Sahara is on the agenda of the UN since 1962 under the Chapter 11 of the UN Charter.
Mr. Messahel also underlined that the Non-Self-Governing territory undergoes "a foreign occupation", which nature was clearly stressed in the 2002 UN legal opinion on the Subject.
This legal opinion, it should be recalled, especially stressed that the "the question of the Western Sahara is a decolonisation question that comes under the resolution 1514 and that Morocco is an occupying power".
Moreover, the AU Commission report underlines that the situation of the peace process in the Western Sahara "deserves bigger attention from the international community, which must act urgently to enable the people of the Western Sahara to exercise their right to self-determination conforming to the international legality and to the pertinent UN Security Council’s resolutions".
On another hand, Senegal, it was indicated attempted to question the part of the report regarding the Western Sahara, but "this attempt did not fin echo with the AU Council of Ministers to whom the report was presented despite of the non-convincing support of Gabon, le Tchad et le Burkina Faso".
"The isolation of Senegal was further noted because the Saharawi question was supported by many countries, including Uganda, South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Namibia, which strongly reiterated their support to the self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara", it was added.
In the same respect, Mr. Messahel recalled that "because it represents the international legality, the question of the Western Sahara interpellates all African countries especially that all these countries are in the end the “sons” of the same resolution 1514 on the right of the peoples to the self-determination".
The report also stressed the fact that "the confrontation between the Moroccan forces and the pro-independence Saharawi human rights activists is still dominant". (SPS)
020/090/700/TRD 301415 Jun 06 SPS
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