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SPS 4 Saharawi youngsters arrested in the city of Assa (South of Morocco) 19.04.05
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Assa (south of Morocco), 18/04/2006 (SPS) 4 Saharawi youngsters were arrested on Monday, in Assa, by the Moroccan forces of occupation within the framework of a campaign of search of houses and arrest against Saharawis in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara and South of Morocco.
According to eye witnesses, the Saharawi citizens, Mohamed Tamek, Burgaa Omar, Bangaa Cheikh and Kyout Brahim were arrested by the Moroccan security agents in this Moroccan southern city.
It should be noted that the Moroccan colonial authorities dispatches many military troops from the interior of Morocco heading towards Assa, so as to create a permanent presence of the Moroccan forces of security in the streets, the same source underlined.
On another hand, tracts that denounce the Moroccan occupation of the Western Sahara were distributed in different streets and schools in the occupied city of Boujdour (Western Sahara). In other neighbourhoods of the city flags of the Saharai Arab Democratic Republic were raised, in particular in front of the secondary schools "Naasr" and "Ahmed Mohamed Rachid", the primary school "Omar Ben khatab" and in the neighbourhoods "Elkheir", "Manolo", "Babi", "Colomina" and "Nassr". (SPS)
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SPS Mr. Messahel reaffirms the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination in Moscow
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Moscow, 19/04/2006 (SPS) The Algerian Delegate Minister in charge for Maghreb and African Affairs, Abdelkader Messahel, actually undertaking a visit to Moscow, underlined that the settlement of the conflict of the Western Sahara passes through the exercise by the Saharawi people of their right to self-determination conforming to the UN’s decisions.
"Algeria is convinced that the problem of the Western Sahara must be resolved on the basis of the right to self-determination of the Saharawi people conforming to the decisions of the Un and to the international law", Mr. Messahel declared in an interview he accorded to the Russian Press Agency, Ria-Novosti.
In this context, the Algerian Minister recalled that the "the UN has got a rich experience regarding the settlement of conflicts in former colonies on the basis of the peoples’ right to self-determination and to decide over their future". "This experience was accumulated, including by the UN’s mission for the Western Sahara", he added.
Mr. Messahel has met before that with the Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Sergueï Lavrov with who he exchanged points of view on subject of common interest, including "the situation in the Western Sahara". The two parties underlined the necessity "to reach a settlement within the framework of the international legality and UN’s resolutions".
In a phone call with the UN’s Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Western Sahara, Mr. Peter Van Walsum, the Head of the Russian diplomacy underlined the necessity of a political settlement to the Western Sahara’s conflict on the basis of the UN’s Security Council’s resolutions, has indicated a press release publicised by the Russian Ministry for foreign Affairs in its website last Wednesday, it should be recalled. (SPS)
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SPS CNASPS recalls the UN’s Security Council its responsibility in the implementation of the international legality
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Algiers 19/04/2006 (SPS) The Algerian National Committee of solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS) "vigorously" denounced the attitude of Morocco in the pursuit of its "campaign of repression" against the Saharawi people and recalled the UN’s Security Council its "responsibility" in imposing the implementation of the international legality.
"CNASPS vigorously condemns the attitude of Morocco, which in complete insensibility to the international community appeals, continues its campaign or oppression, arrests and systematic abduction of all activists and sympathisers with the Polisario Front in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara, the Committee declared in a press release last Tuesday.
On another hand, the CNASPS recalled the UN’s Security Council its responsibility in the implementation of the international legality, in front of the Moroccan denial of the international law, and calls the international community to compel Morocco "respect the UN’s pertinent resolutions for the organisation of a free and regular self-determination referendum in the Western Sahara".
CNASPS also declared that it is adding its voice to the wide international movement of support and solidarity with the "just struggle of the Saharawi people, under the leadership of their legitimate representative, Polisario Front". (SPS)
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SPS Algerian Ambassador in Senegal: The Western Sahara’s question has always been dealt with as a decolonisation issue
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Dakar, 19/04/2006 (SPS) The Algerian Ambassador in Senegal, Abdelhamid CHEBCHOUB, reaffirmed in Senegalese newspaper, "Walf Fadjri",(http://www.walf.sn) that "the question of the Western Sahara has always been dealt with as a decolonisation" and recalled that this territory was occupied after the withdrawal of Spain, "in an illegal way in opposition to the international law". He underlined that his country "can not approve such violation of the international rules".
"In 1965, the UN’s General Assembly adopted a resolution, which urges for the decolonisation of the territory while under Spanish domination", he recalled, adding that "this approach was put on the table after the adoption of the resolution 1514 (XV) related to the Declaration on the granting of independence to the colonial people and countries and the consecration of the principle of the right to slf-determination of the peoples".
"If you visit the UN’s website now you will find that 16 Non-Self-Governing territories are subscribed on the UN’s list of decolonisation, including for the Western Sahara. Algeria is only abiding by the international legality", he said.
The Algerian diplomat underlined that "the access to independence via a referendum and the exercise of the right to self-determination are basic principles as decided by the UN".
"the question of the Western Sahara has got a UN’s peace plan, more known as the Baker Plan, which is a negotiated plan accepted by the two parties to the conflict, Morocco and Polisario Front. We support the implementation of this plan… Algeria continues to work for the settlement of this question conforming to the international legality", he concluded. (SPS)
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SPS The new Saharawi Ambassador to Pretoria presents his letters of credence to President Mbeiki
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Pretoria, 20/04/2006 (SPS) The new Saharawi Ambassador to Pretoria, Ubbi Bachir, presented his letters of credence, on Wednesday in Pretoria to the South African President, Tabo Mbeiki, as an extraordinary and plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, declared a Saharawi official press release the same day.
The Saharawi diplomat paid "vibrating tribute to the exemplary struggle of the South African people, which remains a source of inspiration for the peoples in search of freedom, justice and democracy", during the ceremony that took place at the "Presidential Guesthouse", with the presence of officials from the South African Ministry for Foreign Affairs and press.
The Ambassador stressed the role South Africa is playing in the resolution of conflicts in Africa, noting that "it is this same engagement and faithfulness to the principles of self6-detrmination of peoples that led South Africa to recognise the Saharawi Republic".
"By it decision to recognise the Saharawi Republic, South Africa has widely contributed to the creation of a new dynamism in the conflict marked with a set of recognitions at the international level, but also by the peaceful uprising of the Saharawi population in the occupied zones, advocating their inalienable right to self-determination and independence at the internal level", he underlined.
In addition to "the complete availability of the Saharawi Republic to cooperate with all efforts undertaken by South Africa with a view to search a solution that grant the Saharawi people their inalienable right to self-determination in a climate of transparency and democracy under the auspices of the UN", the Saharawi Ambassador reaffirmed "the attachment" of his Government to the UN’s Peace Plan for the self-determination of the people of the Western Sahara adopted by the UN’s Security Council in its resolution 1495 (July 2003).
On s side President Mbeiki reaffirmed the support of his country to the Baker Plan that "offers the Saharawi people the opportunity to exercise the right to self-determination".
To Mr. Mbeiki, "the renaissance of Africa is impossible as long as a country such as the Western Sahara is colonised". He added that South Africa "will save no effort to see the Saharawi people enjoy their right to self-determination and independence".
After the exchange of speeches, President Mbeiki invited Ambassador Ubbi Bachir to a private meeting, in which both sides discussed the last developments of the Saharawi question.
South Africa established diplomatic relations with the Saharawi Republic at an ambassadorial level last September the 15th 2004, it should be recalled. (SPS)
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