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SPS More that 1.000 tons of aid collected by Andalusan associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people 31.12.05
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Madrid, 31/12/2005 (SPS) The Federation of the associations of solidarity with the Saharawi people of the Spanish region of Andalusia (FANDAS) collected more than 1.000 tons of aid: food, medical and schools’ equipment, which will be forwarded to the Saharawi refugee camps, reported Algerian press agency, APS.
His aid will be transported in some 50 vehicles (trucks, busses, camions, cars, etc), the FANDAS has indicated in a press release in which it stressed the "fundamental" role played by the Spanish families, who receive Saharawi children during the summer, in the collection of the aid, the same source indicated.
Some 9.000 Saharawi children spent their 2005’s summer’s vacations in many Spanish regions with Spanish families within the framework of the "Vacaciones en paz" (vacations in peace) programme, which reinforces the ties of solidarity between the two peoples, Saharawi and Spanish.
FANDAS also hailed the contribution of the Andalusan society, as a whole, for this initiative because Committees of coordination for the collection of the aids were created in companies, schools, political parties’ seats, Trade Unions and NGOs.
Many other regions of Spain prepare to send aid to the Saharawi refugee camps, as usual.
On another hand, dozens universities’ teachers, trade unionists and representatives of NGO are spending their Christmas holidays in the Saharawi refuge camps, within Saharawi families, in solidarity with the Saharawi cause, it should be recalled. (SPS)
020/090/700 311010 Dec 05 SPS
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SPS Phone call from the Mauritanian President to his Saharawi counterpart
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Chahid El Hafed, 31/12/2005 (SPS) The President of he Mauritanian Military Council for Justice an Democracy, Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Val, congratulated the President of the Saharawi Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz, in a phone call on Saturday on the occasion of the celebration of the new year, stated an official source from the Saharawi presidency.
The conversation tackled the privileged relations that link the two Government and brother peoples, Mauritanian and Saharawi, the perspectives of the reinforcement of the cooperation and bilateral relations in addition to the last developments of the political situation of the conflict in Western Sahara, the same source added. (SPS)
060/090/100 312207 Dec SPS 05
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SPS President Abdelaziz to the Saharawi political prisoners: "we reiterate you our oath to pursue the legitimate struggle for independence"
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Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), 31/12/2005 (SPS) The President of the Republic, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, addressed a moving letter to the Saharawi political prisoners, Saturday, on the occasion of the celebration of the festivities of the new year, reiterating them "the oath to pursue the legitimate struggle for freedom and independence".
In a letter he addressed to a list of 55 Saharawi political prisoners, illegally incarcerated by the Moroccan Government after the peaceful popular uprising of the Saharawi population in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and South Morocco against the Moroccan colonialism, the President of the Republic expressed his solidarity and unconditional support to the "heroes" of the peaceful struggle of the Saharawis for independence.
While the peoples of the world are celebrating with joy the end of a year and are dreaming of a better new year, "the sights of the Saharawis are fixed, with sadness, on the sinister cells and Moroccan colonial detention camps, such as the Black Prison in the occupied capital of our country, El Aaiun, as well as in other prisons in Moroccan cities of Ait Melloul, Tiznit, Qenitra and elsewhere", the Head of the State wrote.
On another hand, Mr. Abdelaziz regretted the stubbornness of the Moroccan Government, which pursues "its colonial repressive practices in the Western Sahara", making this "happy international event full of sadness, repression and terror" for the Saharawi people in the occupied territories of Western Sahara and south Morocco.
Addressing 55 Saharawi political prisoners by their names, the President of the Republic assured them the support of the Saharawi people, who "can but bow down before the greatness of your resistance and struggle in defence of our sacred national rights to freedom, self-determination and independence, while preparing to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the constitution of its Saharawi Republic". (SPS)
060/090/100 312348 Dec SPS 05
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