SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Sidney, 30/07/04 (SPS) the Australia Western Sahara Association (AWSA) urged UN's Secretary General Wednesday to pay more efforts in order to "implement its Peace Plan as soon as possible", calling the UN to "seriously" assume "its responsibility" to the decolonisation of Western Sahara conforming to the pertinent resolutions.

In a letter addressed to Kofi Annan, SPS received Wednesday, the association called the UN to "take its responsibility towards the Saharawi people seriously and implement its Peace Plan as soon as possible".

"The endless delays of the referendum of self-determination for the Saharawi people, and the more recent delays of the implementation of the UN peace plan for Western Sahara due to the obstructions of Morocco, are prolonging this suffering" of the Saharawi people, who showed a great spirit of responsibility in cooperating positively with the UN for the sake of a peaceful solution to the conflict.

The Saharawi people, underlined the letter, who showed a great "patience", despite of the continuous deception it underwent because of inability of the international organisation to impose the respect of its own decisions and due to the passivity of the international community in front of Moroccan intransigence, "deserve to be given a chance to decide their own future according to the UN decolonisation doctrine".

Regretting the resignation of the former UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy, James Baker, AWSA recommended Kofi Annan "to appoint a new Special Envoy with the same prestige and stature as Mr. Baker for Western Sahara", so as to help press on Morocco to comply with international legality. (SPS)

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