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The President of the Republic had a meeting with the President of the PP in Madrid

30.11.04

Madrid, 30/11/04 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, had a meeting Monday evening with the President of the Spanish Popular Party (PP), Mr. Mariano Rajoy, who reaffirmed the support of his party to the Baker Plan for the settlement of the problem in Western Sahara, reported a close source to the Saharawi representation in Madrid.

The meeting Abdelaziz-Rajoy intervenes within the framework of a visit started by the President of the Republic last Friday, and was an occasion for the two parties "to discuss the last developments of the question of Western Sahara and the cooperation between Polisario Front and the Spanish Popular Party", underlined the same source.

The President of the PP affirmed that "the position of his party is clear and can be sum up in the support to the peace plan for the self-determination of the Saharawi people (Baker Plan), which was unanimously adopted by the Security Council" in its resolution 1495 of July 2003. He recognised that "the Spanish peoples were, since the beginning, and would remain friends to Saharawi people and that his party would continue working for the reinforcement of this friendship", it was added.

On his side the Head of the State thanked his host "for the clear position of his country on the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people", expressing his gratitude to the Spanish peoples for their support and solidarity.

Attended by an important Saharawi delegation of Polisario Front and Saharawi Government, this encounter took place with the presence of the person in charge of the International Relations of the PP, Mr. Jorge Moragas, it was indicated

It should be recalled that the Presidential delegation, which arrived to Madrid last Friday, had attended Friday evening the opening session of the International Conference of Coordination of support to Saharawi People (EUCOCO). Before that the President of the Republic had had, Friday morning, a meeting with the President of the Spanish Government, José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, in Madrid that was qualified as "constructive" and "warm".

Visits to different Spanish regions (Alicante, Castilla y Leon, Malaga and Murcia), where demonstrations of support to the Saharawi cause would be organised by officials of the autonomous authorities and association of support to Saharawi people, are planed to the presidential programme, besides meetings with presidents of Spanish political parties.

In this respect the President of the Republic visited to Petrer (Alicante), where he had had a warm reception from the population and the authorities of the Council before being the guest of honour to a dinner offered by the Mayor of Alicante, Jose Antonio Hidalgo, with the presence of more than 30 political personalities, mainly Mr. Jose Valera, President of the Association of the Friends of the Saharawi People in Alicante.

The Head of the State had also met with the President of the Parliament of Aragon, Mr. Francisco Pina, accompanied with his assistant, Mrs. Ana Ferandez, after the closure of the works of the Eucoco Sunday.

Mr. Pina recalled in this occasion that the Parliament of Aragon had recently unanimously adopted an institutional statement of support to Saharawi people right to self-determination through the implementation of Baker Plan, it was indicated. (SPS)

060/090/000 301206 NOV 04 SPS
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SADR/ALGERIA/AU/PARLIAMENT
President Bouteflika affirms that the Baker Plan is "a definitive exit" to the conflict of Western Sahara

Algiers, 29/11/2004 (SPS) The President of the Algerian Democratic and Republic, Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, asserted Monday that the Baker Plan remains the adequate political solution for "a definitive exit" to the conflict in Western Sahara, reported Algerian Press Service, APS.

In his speech before of the 27th conference of the African Parliamentary Union (UPA) in Algiers, Mr. Bouteflika reaffirmed the pertinence and validity" of the Baker Plan on Western Sahara, as the political solution that would allow the two parties, Moroccan Kingdom and Morocco, to find "a definitive exit" to this conflict "within the framework of the UN".

"Algeria, as I affirmed in many occasions, indicated President Bouteflika, has no interests in this issue, if it is not to help Saharawi people exert freely its right to self-determination", underlining thus that the parties to the conflict are well defined and recognised by the UN and Security Council's resolution. (SPS)

060/090/700 301241 NOV 04 SPS




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SADR/AUSTRALIA/PARLIAMENT
The Australian Senate exhorts its Government to recognise SADR


Sidney, 30/11/04 (SPS) The Australian Senate recently adopted a motion in which it exhorted its Government to "extend diplomatic recognition to the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic" (SADR) following the example of South Africa.

IN a motion recently adopted by the Senate, Australian Senators exhorted their Government to "extend diplomatic recognition to the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic", following the example of South Africa who "extended full recognition and established diplomatic relations with the Saharawi Republic on 15 September 2004".

"SADR is a fully-fledged State member "of the African Union recognised by over 70 countries worldwide", underlined the motion, adding that the Government should "extend full support to the organisation of a free, fair and transparent referendum of self-determination for the people" of this republic, so as to contribute in the achievement of the long on going decolonisation process of the African continent.

The Senators had also encouraged their Government to "use its best efforts to persuade Morocco to accept the latest UN peace plan", the Baker Plan, the optimum political solution as confirmed in Security Council's resolutions 1495 and 1570.
 
Finally, the motion called the Government "to provide humanitarian assistance to the Saharawi refugees", who are suffering an "urgent" lack of food and medicine, underlined the text.
 
In this same context, it should be recalled, the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labour Party has adopted November the 20th a motion supporting Saharawi people, during its conference that took place last Saturday in Melbourne, calling the Australian Federal Government to recognise the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SPS)

060/090/000 301517 NOV 04 SPS

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