SAHARA PRESS SERVICE

Casablanca, 31/07/2004(SPS) Moroccan political party, "Annahj Adomocrati" (the democratic path) called for the organisation of "a referendum on self-determination for Saharawi people", estimating that this is the only way to resolve the conflict on the basis of the International legality, reported the final communiqué of the party in its recently held founding conference.

Held during the 16, 17 and 18th July in Casablanca after thorny negotiations with the Moroccan authorities and after 30 years of struggle against Moroccan secret services, the founding conference of the Party stressed on "the need to adopt a solution to the problem of the Sahara conform to the international legality and based on a referendum on self-determination".

The Party called to a peaceful solution to the conflict, considering that it is the only way "to avoid the dangers of the war" and "to establish the basis to the edification of a Maghreb of the peoples, which represents an inevitable historical obligation".

Observers noted that this political position in favour of the self-determination of the Saharawi people, in addition to the positions of many progressivist and democrat political advocates like the famous Abraham Serfaty, is a new strike to the misleading Moroccan claim of the so-called "national agreement" on the Saharawi question, Morocco is claiming since the military invasion of the Saharawi territory in 1975. (SPS)

040/090/100/TRD 311820 July 04 SPS