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The
III Trade Unionist Conference of solidarity with the workers of Western
Sahara concerned about the repression in the territory 30.10.05
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Roma, 30/10/2005 (SPS) The III Trade Unionist Conference of solidarity with the workers of Western Sahara, held in Roma on October the 28th and 29th 2005, declared its "concern" about the Moroccan repression in Western Sahara and about the plundering of the Saharawi natural resources, calling to the settlement of the conflict on the basis of the UN’s and UN’s Security Council’s pertinent resolutions, according to the final declaration of the Conference, adopted on Saturday.
"The trade unionist organisations signatories of this document, and which participated to the Trade Unionist Conference of solidarity with the workers of Western Sahara and for a peaceful future in Western Sahara, express their deep concern about the conditions of life and work and about the repression that prevail in the zone", underlined the final declaration of the conference, o which SPS received a copy.
The participants also called to "the full implementation of the rights established in the Charter of human right and in other international human rights conventions for all the women and men of Western Sahara", underlining the need to favours "the re-activation of the projects o international cooperation, so as o ameliorate the conditions of work, and life in the occupied territories as well as in the refugee camps".
The Conference expressed the wish to see all the trade unionist movement support and back the initiative UGTSARIO aimed at "favouring the opening of a dialogue" with the trade unions of Morocco, which participated to the conference so as "to put an end to the state of war and plundering of economic and human resources, an initiative that can start a new policy of development for the profit of all the peoples of this zone and of the Maghreb Arab".
To the conference, the existence of different positions "should not make it impossible to start a trade unionist mobilisation for union aimed at reaching a peaceful solution to the conflict, the recognition of all peoples right to self-determination within the framework of the respect of the international law and peaceful coexistence".
Further, the trade unions expressed their support to "the resolution 1495 and to the peace plan for the self-determination of the people of Western Sahara elaborated by James Baker". They hailed the resolution adopted this October the 27th by the European Parliament, in which it called Rabat to stop its human rights violations in Western Sahara and to release Saharawi political prisoners.
On another hand, the conference insisted on the necessity of the stopping of the plundering of the Western Sahara’s natural resources conforming to the international law, calling the European Union to "review" the fishing accords recently signed with Morocco, which includes the territorial waters of Western Sahara.
The participants also decided to form a joint mission to Morocco and Western Sahara o which international trade unions are invited to "support dialogue, human right respect and the improvement of the conditions of life and work, the end of discrimination against workers, the release the political prisoners and the freedom of expression and movement, conforming to the Universal declaration o human rights".
010/090/666/TRD 301030 oct 05 SPS
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man killed under torture in El Aaiun
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El Aaiun (Occupied territories), 30/10/2005 (SPS) Mr. Moubarki Hamdi Salek Mahjoub was killed under torture, Sunday afternoon in the occupied capital of Western Sahara, El Aaiun, as a result to tortures he underwent in the station of the Group of Urban Security (GUS), indicated Saharawi official sources.
The late Moubarki was arrested during demonstrations organised Saturday evening in the Smara Street, in El Aaiun, to protest against the Moroccan colonial presence in the Western Sahara, claiming for the respect of human rights and the release of the Saharawi political prisoners, the same source indicated.
The man died few time after he was transferred from the station of the GUS to the hospital Ben Mehdi, because of serious injuries he got under torture, while the medical corps of the same hospital refused to give the family of the victim a certification on the reasons of death, it was indicated.
The late is the first person who dies in the Intifada that started in the occupied territories and south Morocco last May the 21st, to claim for the self-determination and independence of the country and demand the respect of human rights in Western Sahara, which is sealed and closed to press and observers since its military invasion and colonial occupation by Morocco in 1975. (SPS)
010/090/110/TRD 301806 oct 05 SPS
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PRESS SERVICE