Autonomy Project [Sahara Issue] [Archive]

Redalinho

July 22nd, 2006, 02:23 PM

I. Morocco's commitment to a final political solution

1. Since 2004, the Security Council has been regularly calling upon "the parties and States of the region to continue to cooperate fully with the United Nations to end the current impasse and to achieve progress towards a political solution".

2. Responding to this call by the international community, the Kingdom of Morocco set a positive, constructive and dynamic process in motion, and pledged to submit an autonomy proposal for the Sahara, within the framework of the Kingdom’s sovereignty and national unity.

3. This initiative is part of the endeavors made to build a modern, democratic society, based on the rule of law, collective and individual freedoms, and economic and social development. As such, it brings hope for a better future for the region’s populations, puts an end to separation and exile, and promotes reconciliation.

4. Through this initiative, the Kingdom of Morocco guarantees to all Sahrawis, inside as well as outside the territory, that they will hold a privileged position and play a leading role in the bodies and institutions of the region, without discrimination or exclusion.

5. Thus, the Sahara populations will themselves run their affairs democratically, through legislative, executive and judicial bodies enjoying exclusive powers. They will have the financial resources needed for the region’s development in all fields, and will take an active part in the nation’s economic, social and cultural life.

6. The State will keep its powers in the royal domains, especially with respect to defense, external relations and the constitutional and religious prerogatives of His Majesty the King.

7. The Moroccan initiative, which is made in an open spirit, aims to set the stage for dialogue and a negotiation process that would lead to a mutually acceptable political solution.

8. As the outcome of negotiations, the autonomy statute shall be submitted to the populations concerned for a referendum, in keeping with the principle of self-determination and with the provisions of the UN Charter.

9. To this end, Morocco calls on the other parties to avail the opportunity to write a new chapter in the region’s history. Morocco is ready to take part in serious, constructive negotiations in the spirit of this initiative, and to contribute to promoting a climate of trust.

10. To achieve this objective, the Kingdom of Morocco remains willing to cooperate fully with the UN Secretary-General and his Personal Envoy.

II. Basic elements of the Moroccan proposal

11. The Moroccan autonomy project draws inspiration from the relevant proposals of the United Nations Organization, and from the constitutional provisions in force in countries that are geographically and culturally close to Morocco. It is based on internationally recognized norms and standards.

A. Powers of the Sahara autonomous Region

12. In keeping with democratic principles and procedures, and acting through legislative, executive and judicial bodies, the populations of the Sahara autonomous Region shall exercise powers, within the Region’s territorial boundaries, mainly over the following:

· Region’s local administration, local police force and jurisdictions;
· in the economic sector: economic development, regional planning, promotion of investment, trade, industry, tourism and agriculture;
· Region’s budget and taxation;
· infrastruture: water, hydraulic facilities, electricity, public works and transportation;
· in the social sector: housing, education, health, employment, sports, social welfare and social security;
· cultural affairs, including promotion of the Saharan Hassani cultural heritage;
· environment.

13. The Sahara autonomous Region will have the financial resources required for its development in all areas. Resources will come, in particular, from:

· taxes, duties and regional levies enacted by the Region’s competent authorities;
· proceeds from the exploitation of natural resources allocated to the Region;
· the share of proceeds collected by the State from the exploitation of natural resources located in the Region;
· the necessary funds allocated in keeping with the principle of national solidarity;
· proceeds from the Region’s assets.

14. The State shall keep exclusive jurisdiction over the following in particular:

· the attributes of sovereignty, especially the flag, the national anthem and the currency;
· the attributes stemming from the constitutional and religious prerogatives of the King, as Commander of the Faithful and Guarantor of freedom of worship and of individual and collective freedoms;
· national security, external defense and defense of territorial integrity;
· external relations;
· the Kingdom’s juridical order.

15. State responsibilities with respect to external relations shall be exercised in consultation with the Sahara autonomous Region for those matters which have a direct bearing on the prerogatives of the Region. The Sahara autonomous Region may, in consultation with the Government, establish cooperation relations with foreign Regions to foster inter-regional dialogue and cooperation.

16. The powers of the State in the Sahara autonomous Region, as stipulated in paragraph 13 above, shall be exercised by a Representative of the Government.

17. Moreover, powers which are not specifically entrusted to a given party shall be exercised by common agreement, on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity.

18. The populations of the Sahara Autonomous Region shall be represented in Parliament and in the other national institutions. They shall take part in all national elections.

B. Bodies of the Region

19. The Parliament of the Sahara autonomous Region shall be made up of members elected by the various Sahrawi tribes, and of members elected by direct universal suffrage, by the Region’s population. There shall be adequate representation of women in the Parliament of the Sahara autonomous Region.

20. Executive authority in the Sahara autonomous Region shall lie with a Head of Government, to be elected by the regional Parliament. He shall be invested by the King.

The Head of Government shall be the Representative of the State in the Region.

21. The Head of Government of the Sahara autonomous Region shall form the Region’s Cabinet and appoint the administrators needed to exercise the powers devolving upon him, under the present autonomy Statute. He shall be answerable to the Region’s Parliament.

22. Courts may be set up by the regional Parliament to give rulings on disputes arising from enforcement of norms enacted by the competent bodies of the Sahara autonomous Region. These courts shall give their rulings with complete independence, in the name of the King.

23. As the highest jurisdiction of the Sahara autonomous Region, the high regional court shall give final decisions regarding the interpretation of the Region’s legislation, without prejudice to the powers of the Kingdom’s Supreme Court or Constitutional Council.

24. Laws, regulations and court rulings issued by the bodies of the Sahara autonomous Region shall be consistent with the Region’s autonomy Statute and with the Kingdom’s Constitution.

25. The Region’s populations shall enjoy all the guarantees afforded by the Moroccan Constitution in the area of human rights as they are universally recognized.

26. An Economic and Social Council shall be set up in the Sahara autonomous Region. It shall comprise representatives from economic, social, professional and community groups, as well as highly qualified figures.

III. Approval and implementation procedure for the autonomy statute

27. The Region’s autonomy statute shall be the subject of negotiations and shall be submitted to the populations concerned in a free referendum. This referendum will constitue a free exercise, by these populations, of their right to self-determination, as per the provisions of international legality, the Charter of the United Nations and the resolutions of the General Assembly and the Security Council.

28. To this end, the parties pledge to work jointly and in good faith to foster this political solution and secure its approval by the Sahara populations.

29. Moreover, the Moroccan Constitution shall be amended and the autonomoy Statute incorporated into it, in order to guarantee its sustainability and reflect its special place in the country’s national juridical architecture.

30. The Kingdom of Morocco shall take all the necessary steps to ensure full integration, into the nation’s fabric, of persons to be repatriated. This will be done in a manner which preserves their dignity and guarantees their security and the protection of their property.

31. To this end, the Kingdom of Morocco shall, in particular, declare a blanket amnesty, precluding any legal proceedings, arrest, detention, imprisonment or intimidation of any kind, based on facts covered by this amnesty.

32. Once the parties have agreed on the proposed autonomy, a Transitional Council composed of their representatives shall assist with repatriation, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of armed elements who are outside the territory, as well as with any other action aimed at securing the approval and implementation of the present Statute, including elections.

33. Just like the international community, the Kingdom of Morocco firmly believes today that the solution to the Sahara dispute can only come from negotiations. Accordingly, the proposal it is submitting to the United Nations constitutes a real opportunity for initiating negotiations with a view to reaching a final solution to this dispute, in keeping with international legality, and on the basis of arrangements which are consistent with the goals and principles enshrined in the United Nations Charter.

34. In this respect, Morocco pledges to negotiate in good faith and in a constructive, open spirit to reach a final, mutually acceptable political solution to the dispute plaguing region. To this end, the Kingdom of Morocco is prepared to make a positive contribution to creating an environment of trust which would contribute to the successful outcome of this initiative.

35. The Kingdom of Morocco hopes the other parties will appreciate the significance and scope of this proposal, realize its merit, and make a positive and constructive contribution to it. The Kingdom of Morocco is of the view that the momentum created by this initiative offers a historic chance to resolve this issue once and for all.

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Rabat, July 21 - France reiterated, here Thursday, its will to find a political solution to the Sahara dispute that opposes the Algeria-backed Polisario separatist movement to Morocco for three decades now.

The stance was voiced by France's ambassador in Rabat, Jean-François Thibault, who received chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Sahrawi Affairs (CORCAS), Khali Henna Ould Errachid.

The diplomat stressed the will of France, an important actor on the international scene, to work for a political solution to the conflict in accordance with the international legality.

Ould Errachid described the autonomy project for the southern provinces, which Morocco is due to submit with a view to settle the Sahara dispute, as an appropriate platform to associate the populations of the provinces to the management of their own affairs.

In a speech the king addressed past March from the southern town of Laayoune, he announced the establishment of the CORCAS to contribute to defending Morocco's territorial integrity and to shed light on the national Cause and the efforts made by Morocco.

The council is composed of elected officials, who constitute more than 50% of its 140 members and includes civil society members operating in the human rights and social fields.

Redalinho

July 22nd, 2006, 02:23 PM

Redalinho

July 22nd, 2006, 02:23 PM

Redalinho

July 22nd, 2006, 02:25 PM

Rabat, July 19 - First secretary of the French Socialist Party (PS), François Hollande, said that the Sahara issue remains a cause of disagreement between Algeria and Morocco and an impediment to the building of the Maghreb.

Hollande told "Al Ittihad Al Ichtiraki" daily of Wednesday that a fair and lasting solution must be found to settle the Sahara dispute, namely through a direct dialogue between all the parties, describing the issue as "urgent".

The Sahara conflict was triggered in the mid seventies by the claim of the Algeria-backed "Polisario" to separate the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara, retrieved by Morocco from Spain under the Madrid accords.

The French politician also commended the excellent relations between Morocco and France, and called for consolidating them further, saying that the two countries have an essential role to play in helping lay out the Euro-Mediterranean policy.

The PS 1st Secretary spoke of the historical ties between his party and the Moroccan Socialist Union for Popular forces (USFP) party, saying he was for the creation of a joint body for the two parties to discuss topical and current issues.

The PS official started on Tuesday, along with members of his party, a two-day visit to Morocco at the invitation of the USFP.

Redalinho

July 22nd, 2006, 02:25 PM

Redalinho

July 22nd, 2006, 02:25 PM

Redalinho

July 25th, 2006, 10:51 PM

UAE reiterates support to Moroccan territorial integrity

The United Arab Emirates reaffirmed its "support to Morocco's territorial integrity," expressing advocacy to the effort deployed by international community, under the aegis of UN, for a definitive and political solution to Sahara issue, according to a Moroccan-UAE joint communiqué released here Tuesday.

The Sahara dispute opposes Morocco to the Algeria-backed Polisario separatist movement which lays claims to Morocco's southern provinces, known as the Sahara.

The UAE also hailed the autonomy project for the southern provinces, which Morocco is due to submit with a view to settle the Sahara dispute, added the joint communiqué, coached at the end of a three-day official visit to Morocco of the Emirati president, Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

The two parties also stressed the “need to end the occupation by Iran of UAE Islands of the Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa.” Morocco commended “UAE’s peaceful moves aiming to solve this issue through bilateral negotiations or the International court of Justice,” the communiqué went on to say.

Morocco and the UAE also reiterated their “principles and constant stances calling to the respect of countries’ territorial integrity, sovereignty and security, underlining the need to resolve conflicts through dialogue and negotiations in accordance with the international resolutions.”

http://www.map.ma/eng/sections/box2/uae_reiterates_suppo/view

Redalinho

July 25th, 2006, 10:51 PM

Redalinho

July 25th, 2006, 10:51 PM

Redalinho

July 25th, 2006, 10:55 PM

Senegal reiterates its support to Moroccan Sovereignty over Sahara

Senegalese Prime Minister Macky Sall reiterated, on Friday, his country's "firm and constant" support to Moroccan Sovereignty over the Sahara.

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In a joint communiqué at the end of a two-day visit of Moroccan Prime Minister, Driss Jettou to Senegal, the Senegalese Premier, on behalf of Senegalese President, Abdoulaye Wade, reaffirmed his country's firm and constant support to Moroccan territorial integrity and Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.

During a working meeting between Moroccan and Senegalese delegations, Jettou hailed Senegal's permanent and constant support to Morocco concerning the Sahara issue, paying tribute to Senegalese Foreign minister, Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, for his courageous stance at the African Foreign ministers meeting, which was held last week in Banjul.

Gadio had denounced the partial and tendentious character of the part about Sahara in the report of the President of the African Union Commission, Alpha Oumar Konara, and called, besides other African Foreign ministers, to amend the report to take into consideration Morocco's stance that privileges a political and negotiated solution to the Sahara issue within Moroccan Sovereignty.

The Sahara conflict opposes Morocco and the Algeria-backed Polisario, which has been claiming the separation of the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara, after they were regained from Spain in 1975 under the Madrid Accords.

The two countries also decided to diversify their economic partnership through exploring new partnership fields, read the communiqué.

Hailing the evolution in their trade exchanges, the two countries noted that concluding a free trade and investment agreement between Morocco and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), which includes eight countries including Senegal, would give new impetus to their economic and trade relations.

As for the situation in Palestine, the two countries condemned the Israeli military escalation and called for resuming negotiations to find a peaceful solution to the Palestinian issue.

On the sidelines of the visit, the Moroccan-Senegalese Business Council, set up in 2002, held its meeting, which was destined to examine partnership opportunities between the two countries' private sector and identify the problems that hinder their economic and trade exchanges.

Jettou, who left Dakar on Saturday, was accompanied by Agriculture Minister, Mohand Laenser and Equipment and Transport Minister, Karim Ghellab, and Industry, Trade and Economy Upgrading, Salaheddine Mezouar, in addition to an important delegation of businessmen.

http://www.moroccotimes.com/paper/article.asp?idr=2&id=15826

Redalinho

July 25th, 2006, 10:55 PM

Redalinho

July 25th, 2006, 10:55 PM

Redalinho

July 25th, 2006, 10:58 PM

Human rights violations in Tindouf camps (Algeria)

A Moroccan delegation composed of citizens from the Southern provinces is touring the United States to raise the awareness of the public to human rights violations suffered by the population sequestered in Tindouf camps, southern Algeria, reported MAP news agency.

Following the latest wave of repression of the victims in Tindouf, the Moroccan delegation headed for the States to sensitise American public opinion in general and the Christian community in particular.

Several meetings were held last week in Lancaster (Pennsylvania), Pontiac (Michigan) and Columbus (Ohio), under the supervision of Reverend Rob Schenck, the president of the Washington-based National Clergy Council.

The members of the delegation, including Saadani Maa Oulainine, Mohammed Astati, El Hassan Boughnou, Boussoula Mohammed Ebeya, Ali El Jaouhar and Mohammed Khmamouch, explained to the attending public the real situation of the population confined on Algerian soil, bringing forth their own testimonies on their experiences in the camps.

According to MAP news agency, the attendees tearfully followed the story of a young girl who was separated from her family at the age of 9 and sent to Cuba where she lived an ongoing exile.

The story of Ali El Jaouhar, which described the daily sufferings of 2,400 prisoners, was as moving as the girl's. Their experiences consisted of daily torture, humiliation, hunger and uncertainty over 23 years.

The most poignant story was that of a doctor who could not assist people affected by diabetes or tuberculosis because the Polisario members stole the drugs donated by international organizations.

Speaking at these meetings, Rev. Schenck denounced the atrocious conditions of the population kept in Tindouf camps, defining the Polisario as “a gang of corrupted mercenaries who are trying to dispute the Moroccan sovereignty over the Sahara.”

Underlining the involvement of Algeria in this tragic situation, Rev. Schenck called on Algeria to open the doors of Tindouf camps and release the sequestered population to start a better life.

“The National Clergy Council is engaged to fight for the release of this population and the unification of separated families and children,” affirmed Schenck.

He called on pastors and parishioners alike to help these families with their prayers. He also urged them to enquire about this humanitarian drama and raise awareness among their communities on the sufferings of the Sahrawi population, kept on the Algerian soil, by preaching and organizing informative sessions.

The Reverend also called on the participants to send a letter to the State department in which they express their worries about the situation of this population and ask the American administration to put an end to the Polisario's embezzlement of humanitarian aids and to make sure that aid income is not used to sponsor terrorists and illegal activities.

Several officials from the clergy, including the Vice-President of the National Clergy Council David Moshier, have denounced the cruelty of the Polisario mercenaries and expressed their compassion to the Sahrawis kept as hostages in Algeria.

Pastor Prince A. Miles, who came from Southfield, said that he could feel the suffering of those separated from their children as he was himself separated from his son, who lost his life at the age of 21.

He affirmed that he will use his influence in broadcasts on the radio and TV to raise awareness amongst Americans, of the long lasting suffering of this population.

“I share their sufferings and I feel their pain” said Miles, adding that he will spare no effort in drawing the attention of the public to their dramatic situation.

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Redalinho

July 25th, 2006, 10:58 PM

Redalinho

July 25th, 2006, 10:58 PM

nwusaad

August 6th, 2006, 11:09 PM

Nice pics. I really hope Algerian supported terrorist Polisario can release all Moroccan prisoners captured for 25 years.
The resolution of the conflict will only come once military-controlled Algeria starts being interested in its domestic development and problems rather than provoking Morocco and maintaining the tension between both neighbouring states and the whole North Africa.

nwusaad

August 6th, 2006, 11:09 PM

nwusaad

August 6th, 2006, 11:09 PM

nwusaad

August 7th, 2006, 09:24 PM

nwusaad

August 7th, 2006, 09:24 PM

nwusaad

August 7th, 2006, 09:24 PM

nwusaad

August 7th, 2006, 09:27 PM

According to Aujourdhui Le Maroc's August 7th edition:

The Algerian backed Polisario is grouping Agerian Sahrawis (60,000) into the refugee camps and claiming that these are Sahrawis originally from Morocco. This maneuver serves the goal of continuing to gain UN and international aid support (food, and other necessities) and also providing an impression that the Sahrawis can not return to the South of Morocco (Western Sahara) because it is occupied by Morocco.
This is another problem that illustrates the difficulty of having a referendum for Sahrawis. Who will vote? Algerian Sahrawis passing for Moroccan Sahrawis, or inhabitants of the South. The various manipulations possible suggest that great autonomy under Moroccan leadership would be the optimal solution for the W. Sahara issue.

Here is the article:

L'Association des disparus du Polisario a interpellé le Programme
des Nations Unies pour le développement (PNUD) au sujet des manoeuvres algériennes consistant à grossir le nombre des séquestrés des camps de Tindouf à des fins politiques et de propagande.
Dans une lettre adressée au Représentant résident du PNUD à Rabat, l'Association affirme que plus de 60.000 citoyens algériens d'origine sahraouie ont été installés à Tindouf et sont comptabilisés parmi les Sahraouis des camps des réfugiés qui se situent à une dizaine de kilomètres de la ville. Ces personnes, qui bénéficient de tous les avantages, notamment en matière de logement, contrairement aux séquestrés originaires des provinces marocaines du sud qui
subsistent dans des conditions inhumaines, sont exploitées doublement, aussi bien par l'Algérie que par le Polisario, en tant que citoyens algériens d'origine sahraouie, d'une part, et en tant que citoyens sahraouis réfugiés, d'autre part, souligne l'Association.

nwusaad

August 7th, 2006, 09:27 PM

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August 7th, 2006, 09:27 PM

Chalaco

August 8th, 2006, 06:21 AM

Autonomy to Western Sahara would be really nice but I, as a foreigner, don't support separation since together they can accomplish more. Unity means strenght.

Chalaco

August 8th, 2006, 06:21 AM

Autonomy to Western Sahara would be really nice but I, as a foreigner, don't support separation since together they can accomplish more. Unity means strenght.

Chalaco

August 8th, 2006, 06:21 AM

Autonomy to Western Sahara would be really nice but I, as a foreigner, don't support separation since together they can accomplish more. Unity means strenght.

nwusaad

August 8th, 2006, 06:34 AM

nwusaad

August 8th, 2006, 06:34 AM

nwusaad

August 8th, 2006, 06:34 AM

Redalinho

August 8th, 2006, 03:41 PM

Reverend calls on Americans to wake up to 'Polisario'-made human tragedy

Knoxville (Tennessee), Aug. 8 - Reverend Rob Schenck, Chairman of the American National Clergy Council, called on Americans to mobilize to unveil to the world the real nature of "Polisario" and the human tragedy that is unfolding in the camps of Tindouf on Algerian soil.

The Algeria-backed "Polisario" lured in the mid seventies in the region of Tindouf, south-west Algeria, thousands of Sahrawis to shore up it claim of separating the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara, retrieved from Spain under the Madrid accords.

Rev. Schenck said " Polisario leaders are living comfortably at the expense of thousands of people held hostage in the camps », at a luncheon hosted here on Monday and attended by a delegation of Moroccans from the Sahara.

The cleric said « Polisario » has close links with the Cuba regime thanks to the complicity of Algeria and has been deporting children to the Caribbean island to brainwash them.

“Polisario” has been also misappropriating the human aid to sell it in the black market in neighboring countries, the Reverend said.

He called on Americans to ask their representatives in the Congress and the State department to allow those «who have no voice and who are sequestrated in the camps » to speak.

The luncheon attendees watched a documentary on the triangular relations between “Polisario”, Algeria and Cuba and heard testimonies, both by Sahrawis who fled the camps and Moroccan soldiers detained for years by “Polisario”, on the various forms of torture and abuse practiced in the camps.

The delegation of the Moroccans, including some who were sent to Cuba but deserted « Polisario » to return to Morocco, is informing the American public on the tragic situation of the Sahrawis and « Polisario » suppression and oppression.

It is scheduled to meet several American representatives, including republican Senator William Frist, and pay a visit to Gatlinburg, Houston where it is having talks with Christian communities.

Redalinho

August 8th, 2006, 03:41 PM

Redalinho

August 8th, 2006, 03:41 PM

KoussKoussKlan

August 8th, 2006, 04:56 PM

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August 8th, 2006, 04:56 PM

AntonAmeneiro

August 10th, 2006, 12:44 AM

I totally agree with chalaco. The belief of self-determination is not applicable nowadays. Today, there is talk of regional integration and such entities and not necessarily divisions. (APAC, NAFTA, ASEAN) In order to benefit from economies of scale and attract FDI, it is impt to have size.
Hence, the economic reasoning is obvious.
Historically, this problem only resulted due to colonization period. For Moroccans believe that there were ties between the region and the monarch prior to the colonization period. The animosity between Algeria and Morocco , Spain amplified the problem that would have been solved previously by reintegration of the province to Morocco.

Sometimes reading certain posts in this forum I get the impression that Spain is seen as a kind of "Big Satan" in Morocco...
Nwusaad, you need to understand that Spain needs to do now what we didn't do when we left Western Sahara, which is to care for the native population that we left unattended.

The thing is... try to understand that for us it's irrelevant if Western Sahara belongs to Morocco or not... it's just that we have many Saharaui people in Spain (not Spaniards) who are asking for our help cos they believe they've been occupied by the Moroccans... this is not my version, but what Saharauis say...

Quoted from Wikipedia:
"The Kingdom of Morocco and the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) presently dispute the control of the territory, Morocco claiming the Sahara as an integral part of the kingdom, while the SADR is a government in exile, controlling a minority of the territory. The rest is controlled and the entirety claimed by Morocco. The SADR is recognized by 48 states, and a full member of the African Union. Moroccan sovereignty or "territorial integrity" has been supported by members of the Arab League[1],[2] and by 25 states."

It seems that the status of Western Sahara as "part of Morocco" isn't really recognised by most of the countries...

Also quoted from Wikipedia:
"The Western Sahara conflict has resulted in severe human rights abuses, most notably the displacement of around 200,000 Sahrawi civilians from the country. Both Morocco and the Polisario accuse each other of violating the human rights of the populations under their control.

Morocco has been heavily criticised by international human rights organizations for its actions in Western Sahara, while criticism of the Polisario has been less frequent.[4] During the war, both sides accused each other of targeting civilians. Morocco has been internationally condemned for employing napalm against refugee columns in 1975[5] and for collective punishment against Sahrawi civilians (see 'The "Disappeared"'). The Moroccan claims of Polisario terrorism has generally received little support abroad, with the USA refusing to include the group on its list of terrorist organizations. Polisario in turn maintained that they are ideologically opposed to terrorism and will only wage a "clean war of national liberation". For human rights abuse in Tindouf camps, see Human rights in Western Sahara"

and I found this quite interesting as well:
"The referendum stalls
The referendum, originally scheduled for 1992, was planned to give the indigenous population the option between independence or inclusion to Morocco, but has not taken place as of 2006. At the heart of the dispute lies the question of who can be registered as an indigenous voter. In 1997, the Houston Agreement made another attempt to implement the referendum, but failed.

Both sides blame each other for the stalling of the referendum. But while the Polisario has consistently asked for the UN to go ahead with the vote, standing only to lose from the status quo, Morocco has been troubled by the risk of losing a referendum or receiving a large enough vote against annexation to undermine years of nationalist rhetoric from the government. Indeed, shortly after the Houston Agreement, the kingdom officially declared that it was "no longer necessary" to include an option of independence on the ballot, offering instead autonomy. Erik Jensen, who played an administrative role in MINURSO, wrote that neither side would agree to a voter registration in which they were destined to lose (see Western Sahara: Anatomy of a Stalemate)."

AntonAmeneiro

August 10th, 2006, 12:44 AM

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August 10th, 2006, 12:44 AM

Redalinho

August 10th, 2006, 05:17 AM

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Redalinho

August 10th, 2006, 05:17 AM

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Redalinho

August 10th, 2006, 05:17 AM

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TooNs

August 10th, 2006, 07:18 AM

^^ Lol... I like this map... The countries shown in red can give an opinion of the type of governments that recognize the fantomatic republic of western sahara... Cuba (Castro), Venezuela (Chavez), N-Korea (Kim Il Sung(?)), Vietnam... Commies rulezzz! :D

(naréééééé j'ai du mal á parler anglais... les vacances kherjou aalya :S)

TooNs

August 10th, 2006, 07:18 AM

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August 10th, 2006, 07:18 AM

nwusaad

August 10th, 2006, 08:52 PM

wow thats an amazing map of the world and the position of countries vis-a-vis the conflict. Im hesitant when it comes to Europe though! France should be Blue , or light blue and I would think that Spain should be somewhat more sympathetic to Polisario.
I think that the European continent does not give a clear account of thieir positions in the conflict.

Anton: I understand that there are pressures by Polisario in Spain to push Spain to intervene more in the conflict. I understand that Spain has been active in the conflict before, but for many Moroccans it is simply seen as a position against Morocco. The fact that they use the problem so that Repsol gets better deals in Algeria (during Aznar's time) was interpreted extremely negative by the public opinion. Hence, many pple believe that Spain is taking advantage of the conflict between essentially Algeria and Morocco to actually get better deals and terms between both parties. I think this has changed and the PSOE rise has made Spain more sympathetic to Morocco's position. (this is believed)
Human rights abuses have occurred and were common between both sides. Do understand that there was guerilla warfare for a very long time until around 1991. All wars entail abuses, and I find it hard to believe that only Morocco does so (or at least most). The longest Prisoners of War record has been set by Polisario 25yrs, and without US intervention they would still be held.
Please know that a huge chunk of the budget for decades has gone to the Sahara: war with Polisario/algeria/libya, infrastructure... Also, all consumption goods are subsidized by the central government for the south. Gaz and fuel is subsidized up to 50% for the population of the south, food (wheat, grain), exoneration for imports for the consumption of the sahrawi population, sugar... basically this is an important part of the budget that is allocated there.
Much of the fury of the population of the South is that they see that the problem has not been solved yet, and until it is investments and amelioration of the socio-economic standards of the people will not occur because investors are hesitant to invest in an area that is disputed... Imagine the tourism projects, industrialization... that would take place and FDIs attracted once problem will be resolved.
It is the status quo that is the real problem and cause of the fury of the people.
Given that Morocco, sees the territory as totally

nwusaad

August 10th, 2006, 08:52 PM

nwusaad

August 10th, 2006, 08:52 PM

AntonAmeneiro

August 10th, 2006, 09:28 PM

I think the Saharauis get the Spanish support (to a public opinion level at least) because they're seen as the victims of the conflict... which is actually true... they were the colony, and their status even today isn't clear... so people say, well, let's just give them a chance to decide, through a referendum. It seems the UN is favorable to such referendum and has pressured Morocco to accept it...but Morocco isn't willing to do it... that also makes Spaniards think that Morocco doesn't really care about the people in Western Sahara, since they don't want to let them decide...

AntonAmeneiro

August 10th, 2006, 09:28 PM

AntonAmeneiro

August 10th, 2006, 09:28 PM

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 04:17 PM

Morocco lauds as wise India's decision to withdraw recognition of polisario republic

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Phnom Penh, 14/08/06 -Le Royaume du Cambodge ne reconnaît plus la soi-disant +RASD+ et son gouvernement est décidé à n'entretenir avec elle aucune relation.

Dans un communiqué officiel publié, samedi, à l'issue des entretiens à Phnom Penh du ministre délégué aux Affaires étrangères et à la coopération, M.Taïb Fassi Fihri avec le Premier ministre du Cambodge, M. Hun Sen et le Vice-premier ministre et ministre des Affaires étrangères et de la Coopération internationale, M. Hor Namhong, les autorités cambodgiennes ont tenu à préciser que leur pays n'entretient aucune relation avec la prétendue +RASD+ et que, elles mêmes, n'entendent pas en entretenir à l'avenir.

M. Fassi Fihri a effectué une visite au Royaume du Cambodge au cours de laquelle il a remis un message de SM le Roi Mohammed VI au Premier ministre cambodgien.

Le ministre marocain a été également reçu en audience par le Roi du Cambodge, Norodom Sihamoni, et a eu des entretiens avec plusieurs responsables de ce pays.

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Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 04:17 PM

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 04:17 PM

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 04:21 PM

Now There are only 5 countries that still support the Polisario Front ( North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan and Timore-Leste)

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 04:21 PM

Now There are only 5 countries that still support the Polisario Front ( North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan and Timore-Leste)

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 04:21 PM

Now There are only 5 countries that still support the Polisario Front ( North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Taiwan and Timore-Leste)

AntonAmeneiro

August 14th, 2006, 04:31 PM

AntonAmeneiro

August 14th, 2006, 04:31 PM

AntonAmeneiro

August 14th, 2006, 04:31 PM

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 04:42 PM

Actually... the UN does not consider Western Sahara part of Morocco. I understand you feel strongly about that, Redalinho, but it's not like the whole world recognises the authority of Morocco in WS.

Quoting from Wikipedia:
"The legal status of the territory and the question of its sovereignty remains unresolved; the territory is contested between Morocco and Polisario Front. It is considered a non self-governed territory by the United Nations."

Now going completely off topic, if that's a pic of you, you should be posting it in the Post your pic thread! :)

The controversial new UN plan for a solution to the conflict in Western Sahara seems to polarise even more the parties to the conflict. While the Moroccan government already has agreed to the plan the Polisario separatists threatens war, and they are fearing Morocco's victory trying to shrink voters' rolls through denying the right of thousands of genuine Sahrawis to participate in the referendum.

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 04:42 PM

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 04:42 PM

AntonAmeneiro

August 14th, 2006, 04:51 PM

I see... well I hope a fair referendum will be held, where all Saharawis will be able to participate. I'm happy to read that the Moroccan government already agreed to the plan, and let's hope the Polisario separatists will understand that this the only way to reach a peaceful solution to the conflict.

AntonAmeneiro

August 14th, 2006, 04:51 PM

AntonAmeneiro

August 14th, 2006, 04:51 PM

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 05:10 PM

But technically speaking this referendum can never take place, as you the UN has never organised a referendum based on ethnic identification. It's well attested that i f we want to organise a honest referendum , it's required to include also the Sahraoui tribes living in Western Algeria, North-Western Mauritnia and Northern Mali, which is quasi-impossible to realise
So the next September, Morocco plans to submit a proposal to grant autonomy to Western Sahara

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 05:10 PM

Redalinho

August 14th, 2006, 05:10 PM

Casa

August 14th, 2006, 07:33 PM

The HCR and WFP decided to reduce by 43 % the assistance intended for the camps of Tindouf on the Algerian ground. The separatists, who took the practice to divert the essence of this basket, shout to a plot.

The HCR (Office of the High Commission of the Refugees) has just decided the reduction of the humanitarian aid intended for the camps of Tindouf of 43 %. This decision, moved by the blur which surrounds the number of the populations having to profit from this assistance, caused the anger of Polisario which showed the HCR, WFP (world food Program), Morocco and its "allies" as "affamer of the sahraoui women and children". Such is the contents of virulent criticize of the president of the CRS ( sahraoui Red croissant ) which reacted to the decision of the U.N. organization, while being pleased with the initiatives of several countries to increase their assistances to the populations of the camps. This war of the figures does not go back to today. The HCR and WFP had based themselves, during decades, on the only statistical ones advanced by Algeria and which evaluated the population of the camps to more than 160.000 people. These statistics were always disputed by Morocco which did not cease asking for a census of these populations and denouncing that these humanitarian aids end up enriching the pockets of the leaders of Polisario after their flow on the black markets of Algeria and Mauritania. In fact similar charges have been just carried against the friends of Mohamed Abdelaziz by the persons in charge for the Council of the American national clergy.
The last autumn, the HCR had ended up estimating at 90.000 the number of vulnerable people who could benefit from its assistance as from September 2005. However, Morocco declared at the same period, it acted there only of the implementation of the estimate retained in the report/ratio of the high commissioner at the general assembly of UNO, May 2, 1997. These figures were exaggerated and did not rest on any standard or parameter recognized by the international community, of which the process called "Project Profile".
At the beginning of October 2005, the HCR had recalled in a note that official requests were made to Algiers in 1977, 2001, 2003 and 2005 without any result. Similar requests were introduced at Polisario, in vain. Algeria and its protected had finally answered that it was initially necessary to lead to a "political solution" to the problem, while Morocco invited to dissociate the humane shutter of the political aspect of the conflict. Ultimately, they are the sequestered populations with Tindouf which were taken with the trap following this decision of the HCR. Considering a great part of the assistance which was intended to them was diverted by the leaders of Polisario, the situation will worsen during the years to come, since the international assistances will be able to drop. In a document of the HCR, last 29 May, the U.N. organization insists again on the need for an operation of census and invites "to revalue the assistance" provided to the camps of Tindouf. It is what finished by being made at the time of the 35ème session of the Standing Committee of the HCR.
Last October, Morocco which is one of the large contributors of the HCR in the area of the Maghreb, pled for the repatriation of the populations of Tindouf, independently of the political process. The Kingdom had advanced the example of 500.000 African and Afghan refugees (figures of the HCR) who could turn over in their countries in 2005.

Casa

August 14th, 2006, 07:33 PM

Casa

August 14th, 2006, 07:33 PM

Aícha

August 15th, 2006, 03:56 PM

Le Cambodge ne reconnaît plus la RASD Retour aux dépêches

Le Royaume du Cambodge ne reconnaît plus la «RASD» et son gouvernement est décidé à n’entretenir avec elle aucune relation.

C’est ce qui a été annoncé dans un communiqué officiel publié à l’issue des entretiens à Phnom Penh du ministre délégué aux Affaires étrangères et à la coopération, Taïb Fassi Fihri avec le Premier ministre du Cambodge, Hun Sen et le Vice-premier ministre et ministre des Affaires étrangères et de la Coopération internationale, Hor Namhong.

Aícha

August 15th, 2006, 03:56 PM

Aícha

August 15th, 2006, 03:56 PM

Redalinho

August 15th, 2006, 09:59 PM

Four young Moroccan Sahaouis flee Polisario, return home

Rabat, Aug. 15 - Four young Moroccans have fled the Polisario camps to return to Morocco, reported on Tuesday the Arabic-speaking daily "Assabah".

The Polisario is an Algeria-backed guerrilla movement claiming the separation of Morocco's southern provinces, known as the Sahara. The former Spanish colony was retrieved by Morocco in 1975 under Madrid accords.

The youths described their journey out of Lahmada camps in Tindouf (south-western Algeria) onboard a merchandise van till the safety belt of El Mahbas region, where they presented themselves to the Moroccan armed forces.

Mehdi Ould Ali Salem Ould N'faae (34), Ali Ould Salem (27), Ahmed Ould Mhamed (19) and Othmane Ould Mrabih (14) gave overwhelming testimonies about the inhumane situation that sequestered families are enduring in Tindouf camps on the Algerian soil.

They said that the state of siege was reinforced in Tindouf camps following the demonstrations staged by members of Rguibate El-Ayaycha tribe, who support the autonomy proposal, adding that the armed militias of Polisario savagely repressed these demonstrations.

The youths also called upon the international community to step in to lift the siege imposed on the sequestered families in Tindouf to allow them return to their homeland and to save children subjected to forced work and deportation to Cuba against their parents’ will.

Redalinho

August 15th, 2006, 09:59 PM

Redalinho

August 15th, 2006, 09:59 PM

nwusaad

August 18th, 2006, 02:23 AM

I hope the UN can pressure the polisario more, and make the corcas the ultimate actor for representing the Sahrawi interest.

After all if they are given autonomy, under a strong and internationally respected state; I dont see why anyone would complain.

The period of self-determination has become outdated, today is an era for consolidation and regional blocs.

nwusaad

August 18th, 2006, 02:23 AM

nwusaad

August 18th, 2006, 02:23 AM

Redalinho

August 18th, 2006, 02:37 AM

Sahrawi children inhumanely treated in Cuba, former Cuban official

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Some former Cuban senior officials confessed that children, who were snatched from their parents in Tindouf camps and deported to Cuban “Youth Island”, endured ill-treatment.

“These children followed military training and courses on the making of explosives,” said former Cuban instructor, Dariel Alarcon.

Dariel Alarcon, known as “Benigno”, testified in a documentary entitled “Cuba and Polisario Front: crime partners” that he was in charge of making Sahrawi children, barely nine years old, undergo a military training.

Alarcon, now exiled in France, recalled boats carrying an "incredibly" high number of Sahrawi children, who later were sent to "Youth island” under military control with no hope of escaping.”

“We taught children how to make home-made explosives with such products as sugar, coffee, sulphur, and nitroglycerine,” he said, revealing that during these courses “several children were killed. Their bodies should still be buried in the island if they were not exhumed,” said Alarcon.

Juan Vives, former agent of Cuban secret services, published a documentary under the title “El Magnifico” in which he described the inhumane condition of children sent from the Polisario-controlled Tindouf camps, South-west Algeria, to the Latin American country.

In the documentary, Vives said that the Moroccan Sahrawi children were sent to schools, which were established especially for them, to follow their politically oriented studies.

“Children were obliged to work in the fields in the morning and go to school in the afternoon. Some did not cease to cry, claiming their parents. It was inhumane. Some arrived so young to Cuba that they hardly remembered from where they came. And it is very inhumane,” said Vives.

The former agent said that some young people stayed in Cuba over 12 years, admitting that his country hosted “a network of kidnapping children.”

The documentary, which indicated that 2,000 to 3,000 young Sahrawis are still in Cuba and hundreds of children are still being sent each year, talked about other abuses exerted by the Polisario, including the embezzlement of the international aids and the inhumane treatment of the Moroccan detainees in Tindouf camps.

The DVD documentary was screened during the Moroccan delegation's tour to several US cities in order to draw the attention of the American public opinion, particularly the Christian community, to the plight of the sequestered population in the camps.

During some meetings held in Trenton, New Jersey, Sarasota, Florida and Jacksonville, the members of the Moroccan delegation presented copies of this documentary to religious leaders to share it with their communities and show them the real face of the so-called Polisario.

The Moroccan delegation, composed of Saadani Maa Oulainine, Boussoula Mohammed Ebeya, Bachir Edkhil, Ali Najab and Ali Jaouhar, delivered poignant testimonies on the torture they endured during their detention in Tindouf camps.

Redalinho

August 18th, 2006, 02:37 AM

Redalinho

August 18th, 2006, 02:37 AM

belgiumguy

August 18th, 2006, 03:58 PM

It's time that Algeria stops helping the polisario and help creating the Maghreb arab union.

belgiumguy

August 18th, 2006, 03:58 PM

It's time that Algeria stops helping the polisario and help creating the Maghreb arab union.

belgiumguy

August 18th, 2006, 03:58 PM

It's time that Algeria stops helping the polisario and help creating the Maghreb arab union.

wakrah-wi-bas

August 21st, 2006, 11:21 AM

the people of the sahra have the right to self determination under it's legitimate representative, Polisario.
the morrocan regime should & must lay-off the people of the sahara. morroco who have the worst record in violation of human rights, should never talk about torture in the camps of tindouf. after all, it's morroco who built the bastille of the 20th century, tizmamart.

wakrah-wi-bas

August 21st, 2006, 11:21 AM

wakrah-wi-bas

August 21st, 2006, 11:21 AM

belgiumguy

August 21st, 2006, 03:46 PM

hahahaha,jou don't know nothing of this.The Sahraoui's live like kings in Laayoune while their families eat sand in Tindouf,food is practically for free..They live in miserable tents while the Sahraoui's in Laayoune have beautiful avenue's,boulevards,squares.Polisario sends his own people to Cuba to work like dogs in the fields.The most funny thing of all is that the leaders of Polisario are all Moroccans,born in Marrakech out for money.

belgiumguy

August 21st, 2006, 03:46 PM

belgiumguy

August 21st, 2006, 03:46 PM

nwusaad

August 22nd, 2006, 08:15 AM

The Western Sahara will become a more prosperous place under Moroccan sovereignty. Sahrawis will be able to rule their own internal affairs, and benefit from Moroccan security, tutelage and diplomacy.
While Morocco has had human rights violations before, the situation has gotten much better as Amnesty International declares. It is not the Polisario, which still holds Moroccans and prisoners in Tindouf since 1975, that will prove to be a better representative. The fact that it sends Sahrawi children to become mercenaries and child soldiers in Cuba makes them more of a mafia organization seeking to make money (armament sales, food and United Nations aid, forced slavery, sequestering prisoners), than actually defending the rights of the Sahrawis.

If they really represent Sahrawis, why dont they leave them go back to their land? Why do they need to keep them refugees in Tindouf camps. As a way to get UN aid. After all they certainly have family there.
The referendum can not work because Polisario and Algerians will keep counting people that are not truly Sahrawis in the list and force them to vote for secession. Furthermore, being a mafia and violent organization, they will threaten people to vote for one side.

Sahrawis just want to live in peace in their land. See their family, villages, do business with their Moroccan, Algerian and Mauritanian brothers. So why doesnt POLISARIO leave them alone rather than torture their children, kidnap/abduct them, and keep fueling the tension between Morocco and Algeria?

nwusaad

August 22nd, 2006, 08:15 AM

nwusaad

August 22nd, 2006, 08:15 AM

Casa

September 9th, 2006, 01:52 AM

Autonomy, best solution to settle Sahara issue (former Canary Islands President)

Rabat, Sep. 8 - Former president of the autonomous government of the Canary Islands, Jeronimo Saavedra Acevedo (1983-1987) affirmed, here Friday, that the autonomy project is the "best solution to settle this issue."
Acevedo gave this statement to MAP at the end of a meeting with Sahrawi personalities.

The Sahara issue opposes Morocco to the Algeria-backed Polisario, which claims the separation of Morocco's southern provinces, the Sahara, from the rest of the country. The North African kingdom is presently devising a solution to this conflict that consists of granting the Sahara a large autonomy under its sovereignty.

Currently President of the Spanish Socialist Labor party (PSOE) in the Canary Islands, Acevedo noted that he was the "first" to mention the issue of Sahara autonomy, underlining that this stance has made him target to many critics at that time.

Voicing confidence that autonomy is the best solution to put an end to the Sahara conflict, which has so long lasted, Acevedo condemned Algeria’s attitude that “persists to hinder the efforts aiming to find a lasting solution to this issue.”

The Sahrawi personalities briefed the Spanish politician about the inhuman practices of the Polisario in Tindouf camps (southwest Algeria), and handed him an exhaustive file about the Moroccan civilians and militaries that disappeared in these camps.

The Sahrawis urged Acevedo to exert pressure on Polisario and Algeria to highlight the fate of the Moroccans in the Polisario and Algeria’s prisons.

Jeronimo Saavedra Acevedo is expected to give a conference on Saturday on the “Spanish experience and the autonomy perspectives for the southern province”.

Casa

September 9th, 2006, 01:52 AM

Casa

September 9th, 2006, 01:52 AM

Redalinho

October 4th, 2006, 01:30 PM

Le Polisario accuse l’Espagne et la France

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Le Front Polisario a fermement réagi à la relance par le Maroc du projet d’autonomie du Sahara préconisé en tant qu’alternative au statu quo.

M. Mohamed Sidati, le représentant de la RASD chargé des relations avec l’Europe, a animé dans la soirée du lundi un point de presse à cette occasion dans le but de réactualiser la position du Polisario.

En accusant explicitement l’Espagne et la France d’être derrière la promotion de l’idée d’autonomie large du Sahara, il fera valoir l’attachement traditionnel de la RASD au principe des négociations directes avec le royaume chérifien sur le seul thème des modalités d’application du référendum d’autodétermination, conformément aux accords conclus entre les deux pays à Houston.

«Nous refusons de négocier avec le Maroc sur autre chose que les modalités d’application des accords déjà conclus, notamment le Plan de règlement de l’Onu de 1991 et les Accords de Houston de 1996", a-t-il déclaré. M. Sidati, qui occupe également la fonction de ministre conseiller auprès du président de la République arabe sahraouie démocratique, M. Mohamed Abdelaziz, a fait savoir que les manoeuvres marocaines ont tendance à faire accréditer la thèse que des Etats veulent faire figurer dans les prochaines résolutions du Conseil de sécurité de l’Onu l’appel à des négociations sur le projet de l’autonomie.

Le conférencier rappellera tout simplement, en guise de réponse, que des négociations entre les deux parties ont eu lieu et ont abouti à la signature du Plan de règlement et des Accords de Houston dans lesquels Rabat accepte la tenue du référendum d’autodétermination au Sahara-Occidental.

M. Sidati se désole que les Nations unies n’aient pas fait preuve de fermeté pour pousser à l’application de ce plan. Quant au plan d’autonomie présenté par le royaume chérifien, le responsable sahraoui ne lui réserve aucune suite.

«C’est un projet mort-né», commentera-t-il, citant en exemple d’illustration de l’hostilité des populations sahraouies, les actions de protestation enregistrées sur les territoires occupés depuis 2005.

Et qui ont valu une réaction de répression des forces de sécurité marocaines, attentant aux droits de l’homme.

Un aspect sur lequel l’attention de la communauté internationale a été sans cesse attirée. Le ministre a parlé d’arrestations arbitraires de militants indépendantistes et la torture pratiquée systématiquement sur les prisonniers.

La relance du projet d’autonomie n’est, aux yeux de Sidati, qu’une manoeuvre de digression destinée à chahuter la nature du conflit qui est celui de la décolonisation que seul «le processus de règlement sus-cité consensuellement approuvé est à même de régler».

Le Conseil de sécurité de l’Onu doit se réunir fin octobre pour voter un renouvellement du mandat de sa mission au Sahara-Occidental, la Minurso, et se prononcer de nouveau sur le conflit opposant le Front Polisario et le Maroc depuis 1975.

Le Polisario mène en ce moment une campagne de sensibilisation de l’Union européenne sur la justesse de l’organisation d’un référendum d’autodétermination qui permettra à la population de choisir en toute souveraineté son sort: s’affranchir des griffes du Maroc ou en dépendre.

La polémique sur le thème de l’autonomie est relancée alors que des informations font état d’un positionnement favorable d’un parti politique marocain - la Voie de la Démocratie - pour la convocation d’un référendum d’autodétermination.

Et a dénoncé par là même, les violences policières menées contre les résistants sahraouis. L’organisation d’un référendum d’autodétermination au Sahara-Occidental est en mesure, selon ce parti politique, de «garantir la paix et la sécurité dans la région» a estimé «Annahdj Eddimocrati» en évoquant le bilan annuel du Sahara-Occidental.

Par Omar S. - Quotidien d'Oran

Redalinho

October 4th, 2006, 01:30 PM

Redalinho

October 4th, 2006, 01:30 PM

Redalinho

October 30th, 2006, 03:42 AM

Moroccan former Tindouf-camps detainee sues Polisario in ICJ

The Hague, Oct. 28 - Saadani Malainine, a Moroccan sociologist whom the Algeria-backed Polisario separatist had deported to Cuba and sequestered in the Tindouf camps, Algeria lodged on Friday a motion in the International Court Justice in the Hague as victim of the Polisario.

Malainine told the press she lodged the motion "as a victim of the human rights breaches committed by the Polisario after the sufferings I endured after the odious assassination of my father in a public square."

The Polisario, which lays claims, since 1976, to Morocco's Southern Provinces, known as the Sahara, is backed by Morocco's eastern neighbor, Algeria. The separatists had lured thousands of Moroccan civilians into joining it in the Tindouf camps, in the southwest of Algeria, and today they are holding these civilians against their will.

"I hope this court could deal out justice so that (…) the people sequestered in the Tindouf camps could return to their mother country," she said.

Malainine described as the only way out the autonomy proposal for the southern provinces, which Morocco is due to submit to solve the Sahara issue. This is the only solution that would allow the separated families to gather in a strong Morocco, she said.

Besides factual information about the dramatic situation of human rights in the camps, the motion also includes a list of the people who disappeared in the Tindouf camps.

Redalinho

October 30th, 2006, 03:42 AM

Redalinho

October 30th, 2006, 03:42 AM

Redalinho

November 1st, 2006, 07:31 PM

USA calls on parties to Sahara issue to engage UN, each other to solve the dispute

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New York, (UNO), Nov. 1 - The United States of America called on all parties to the Sahara conflict "to engage the UN and each other in a spirit of flexibility and compromise" to solve the dispute, inviting Morocco to present its autonomy project for the region.

At a debate held after the adoption on Tuesday by the UN Security Council of a new resolution on the Sahara, William J. Brencick, of the US permanent mission to the UNO, advocated to hold discussions without preconditions between all the parties, including Algeria and the "Polisario".
Discussions that "could form the basis for a new UN-lead negotiations process," he went on to say.

"Minurso is not a viable alternative to a permanent solution and we, therefore, call on Morocco, Algeria and the Polisario to move beyond rhetoric to the serious work needed for the resolution of this conflict," Brencik said.

He expressed the wish to see all the parties "use the next six months to aggressively negotiate a mutually acceptable solution to bring peace, stability and prosperity to the region".

The United States, he said, remains concerned that the Sahara conflict has impeded regional cooperation and development for the last 30 years, noting a settlement is long overdue.

The Security Council’s resolution was welcomed, Tuesday night, by Morocco, that deems that it “confirms” the demarche advocated for more than two years by the Security Council to deal with the Sahara issue.

The Moroccan foreign Ministry said the international community fully supports Morocco’s approach to reach a lasting political solution that favors peace, stability and development in the North African region of the Maghreb.

For her part, Ms Karen Pierce of the British mission to the UNO reiterated her country’s wish to see progress made in the coming six months to advance in settling the issue.

France's deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, Jean Pierre Lacroix said his country is following with "interest" Morocco's decision to present to the UN Security Council (UNSC) its project to grant a large autonomy to its Southern Provinces known as the Sahara, that Paris deems "encouraging step forward" to settle the three-decade long dispute.

France notes with interest the intention of the kingdom of Morocco, mentioned by the report of (UN) Secretary General, to present in the coming months some proposals.

The Sahara dispute opposes the North African country to the separatist movement "Polisario". The latter has been seeking, since 1976, with the help of Algeria to take control of the Sahara, a territory that the former colonial power, Spain handed over to Morocco in 1975 under the Madrid Accords signed with Madrid and Mauritania.

On Tuesday, the 15-member Security Council reaffirmed its commitment to assist the parties (Morocco, Algeria, Polisario) to achieve a just, lasting and mutually acceptable solution to Sahara dispute. It reiterated its call upon "the parties and States of the region to continue to cooperate fully with the United nations to end the current impasse and to achieve progress towards a political solution".

The Council also decided to extend the mandate of the MINURSO (French acronym for the peace keeping mission in the Sahara) until 30 April 2007. The mission made up of military and civilians has been supervising since 1991 the ceasefire concluded between Morocco and the separatists.

Redalinho

November 1st, 2006, 07:31 PM

Redalinho

November 1st, 2006, 07:31 PM

Redalinho

November 29th, 2006, 08:15 PM

L’Alg?rie et ses voyous polisariens viennent de franchir un pas significatif dans l’escalade contre la stabilit? du Maroc. Des dizaines de jeunes ? combattants ?, extraits contre leur gr? de l’enfer tindoufi, ont ?t? admis dans les acad?mies militaires alg?riennes pour une formation acc?l?r?e dans le maniement des armes, la fabrication d’explosifs et la gu?rilla urbaine. Cette initiative vient s’ajouter ? une somme d’actes destin?s ? d?stabiliser le Royaume. En effet, la vilenie des autorit?s d’Alger s’est manifest?e ? travers les actes insurrectionnels et criminels qui se sont d?roul?s sur le territoire marocain ? l’appel de Mohamed Abdelaziz El Marrakchi. Depuis quelques semaines, une vari?t? impressionnante d’actes d?lictuels et criminels ont ?t? commis par des individus ? la solde des s?paratistes. Ces actes semblent s’ins?rer dans une entreprise plus vaste tendant ? ali?ner la marche marocaine vers la modernit? et la d?mocratie. Focus.

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Redalinho

November 29th, 2006, 08:15 PM

Redalinho

November 29th, 2006, 08:15 PM

Redalinho

December 6th, 2006, 06:15 PM

350 000 Marocains expulsés de l'Algérie en 1975 poursuivent Abdelaziz Bouteflika : Les Marocains d'Algérie demandent justice

Après 30 années de souffrance et de supplices, plusieurs centaines de milliers de Marocains expulsés d’Algérie en 1975 rompent le silence et décident de poursuivre en justice l’Etat algérien, en la personne de son président Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Pour faire aboutir leur démarche, ils se sont constitués en association, créée en bonne et due forme en juillet 2005, pour défendre leurs droits et recouvrer leurs biens spoliés par la junte militaire qui avait décidé, en 1975 lors de la marche verte, de punir le Maroc pour la réintégration du Sahara dans son espace national.

Plus de 350 000 Marocains, soit pas moins de 45 000 familles, traînent le président algérien Abdelaziz Bouteflika en justice, et plus exactement devant le Tribunal pénal international (TPI). Et pour procéder légalement, ils se sont constitués en association pour défendre leurs droits légitimes et recouvrer leurs biens spoliés et confisqués illégalement par la junte militaire algérienne. L’information nous a été livrée par Mohamed El Herouachi, le président de l’Association pour la Défense des Marocains Expulsés d’Algérie (ADMEA), créée au mois de juillet 2005. Les faits sont qualifiables, etégalement, inqualifiables.

La marche noire
des Algériens
Ils remontent au 18 décembre 1975. Quand l’Algérie décida d’expulser abusivement des centaines de milliers de citoyens et citoyennes Marocains établis en toute légalité sur le territoire algérien. C’est feu le président Houari Boumédiène qui avait lui-même lancé la meute et sonné l’hallali contre une population désarmée dont le seul tort était d’avoir choisi de s’installer chez le voisin de l’Est. Un fait en soi grave et assez audacieux. La décision saugrenue et grotesque est intervenue en réaction à la marche verte décrétée par feu Hassan II deux mois auparavant, au courant du mois de novembre de la même année. À l’époque, Houari Boumédiène criait à qui voulait l’entendre que le Maroc allait payer très cher ce qu’il appelait, lui, «l’invasion du Sahara par la population marocaine». Il donna même une appellation à ce que les militaires algériens appelleront désormais «la marche noire» en mettant à exécution leurs desseins d’expulsion massive 350. 000 Marocains d’Algérie. Les consignes de Houari Boumédiène, mûrement réfléchiess avec Abdelaziz Bouteflika (alors ministre des affaires étrangères), faisaient état d’une expulsion, sans préavis et dans des conditions abominables, de l’ensemble de cette communauté. Une longue marche «déshonorante» qui conduira ces milliers d’émigrés Marocains d’Alger, d’Oran, Tlemcen, Annaba, Constantine…, où ils ont été contraints d’abandonner leurs biens (meubles et immeubles, commerces, bijoux, comptes bancaires bloqués…), leurs familles et leurs enfants (pour les couples mixtes qui constituent la majorité), vers les frontières, du côté de la ville d’Oujda. Pourchassés et traqués dans tout le territoire, mal traités, arrêtés et emprisonnés dans des camps de concentration, les Marocains, bien de chez nous, subiront tous les supplices avant de rentrer au Maroc, le cœur plein de haine envers ce pays qui les a sacrifiés pour une cause qui n’est pas la leur. «Je me rappelle encore du jour de ce grand massacre.

Un jour de fête
Le mot d’ordre a été donné le jour de l’aid lakbir. Au lieu de le fêter en toute quiétude, nous faisions l’objet d’une chasse à l’homme sans précédent et d’un nettoyage ethnique ordonné en haut lieu et exécuté par les forces de l’ordre algériennes (services secrets, armée, police, gendarmerie) qui avaient pour mission de nous chasser du territoire. Ce jour-là, on m’a arrêté chez moi et m’ont sommé de les accompagner au poste de police après m’avoir assailli de coups. En route, l’un des policiers m’a lâché une phrase que je ne suis pas prêt d’oublier. Il m’a dit que je n’avais rien à faire ici et que l’Algérie m’expulse chez mon roi pour qu’il me donne à bouffer. Nous sommes restés plusieurs jours dans des geôles secrètes, privés de visite et de nourriture, jusqu’à notre expulsion intervenue le 18 décembre 1975 «, nous confie Jamal, dépouillé de tous ses biens, marié à une algérienne et père de deux enfants qui sont restés à Alger. Les témoignages de quelques Marocains expulsés, interrogés par LGM, semblent verser dans la même tragédie qui restera dans les annales. Arrestations, expropriations, confiscations, fouilles, insultes, reconductions à la frontière dans des conditions barbares qui ne sont pas si loin celle nazie, du fascisme qui a contraint des communautés comme les Tziganes de l’Europe de l’Est ou les Japonais après Pearl Harbor, quand les Américains les ont cantonnés dans des camps de concentration avant leur expulsion massive vers leur pays d’origine. Sans oublier qu’en 1995, les Balkans nous ont offert un triste spectacle d’exode massif de Kossovards, d’Albanais, de Bosniaques, et d’autres ethnies qui ont été chassés de leurs territoires sous la menace des généraux Serbes. Les mêmes catastrophes humaines qu’a vécues la région des Grands Lacs en Afrique avec le génocide rwandais ou d’autres crimes au Burundi. Sauf que dans ce cas de mauvaise école, l’Algérie, à travers son conseil de la révolution, composé entre autres du général Larbi Belkhair (l’actuel ambassadeur d’Alger à Rabat), Chadli Benjedid, (l’ex-président de la république), et Abdelaziz Bouteflika (alors ministre des affaires étrangères sous Boumédiène et actuel président de la république) voulait punir le Maroc.

Le complot
À sa manière, surtout après la réintégration du Sahara dans l’espace national, reniant tous les accords de paix conclus entre le Maroc et l’Algérie lors de deux sommets, l’un à Tlemcen en 1969 et l’autre à Ifrane en 1971. «L’USFP a de tout temps essayé de maintenir le dialogue. Je me souviens d’une tentative lancée en 1976 par l’intermédiaire de notre ami Lakhdar Ibrahimi qui était à l’époque ambassadeur d’Algérie à Londres. Une rencontre devait avoir lieu entre feu Houari Boumédiène et feu Abderrahim Bouabid. Ils étaient sur le point de se rencontrer, mais l’expulsion massive des Marocains dans ces conditions dramatiques avait annulé cette initiative. En son âme et conscience, Bouabid ne pouvait qu’annuler cette rencontre…», se souvient Mohamed El Yazghi interpellé à ce sujet.
Houari Boumédiène passera ainsi à l’acte et mettra son armée en alerte maximale tout le long de la frontière avec le Maroc. Il demandera alors à son puissant patron des services de renseignements de naguère, Kasdi Merbah, de lui trouver une réponse adéquate à la célèbre marche verte. La toute puissante police politique du régime, responsable de la lutte contre la subversion et responsable de la sécurité de l’Etat ne va pas se fouler, il a fallu juste remettre à jour la technique d’expulsion expérimentée par les algériens à plusieurs reprises et notamment après la guerre des Sables. Mais cette fois-ci à plus grande échelle. Le service Action, connu pour ses actions spéciales, notamment les assassinats de personnalités, sera appelé par Boumédiène à gérer la logistique et le déroulement de l’opération d’expulsion. Pour répondre à la marche verte, les services algériens tenteront même d’arrondir les chiffres pour arriver au même chiffre mobilisé par Feu Hassan II lors de la marche verte, soit 350 000. Deux mois avant l’opération, les murs des rues des principales agglomérations algériennes ont été couverts d’affiches ordonnant et interdisant aux Algériens d’acheter les biens immobiliers des Marocains.

De Boumédiène
à Bouteflika
Nous sommes dans l’Algérie de Boumédiène, celui par qui “l’affaire» du Sahara est arrivée. Celui-là même qui déclarait, en 1974, à un an du refoulement des Marocains d’Algérie, n’avoir aucune prétention sur le Sahara marocain et qu’il encouragerait tout arrangement à ce sujet entre le Maroc et la Mauritanie. C’était sans connaître le bonhomme, qui, comme Ben Bella en 1963, fera volte-face en 1975. Il hébergera, encadrera et armera les séparatistes du Polisario, après en avoir été le co-créateur. Au même moment, il crèvera le mur de la provocation en expulsant des civils innocents par représailles des projets inavoués de sa junte militaire qui voulait coûte que coûte creuser un couloir sur notre façade atlantique. Un des délires mégalomaniaques du colonel Houari Boumédiène, mort en 1979, qui en renvoyant d’un seul coup les 350 000 personnes au Maroc voulait invraisemblablement déstabiliser la monarchie marocaine. Contre cette haine manifeste, a répondu la sagesse d’un défunt Souverain. Par sa patience nourrie par une civilisation multiséculaire, sa haute idée du droit international, feu Hassan II, a toujours su faire entendre, au plus fort moment des crises épisodiques, la voix de la raison aux responsables algériens. Même après les attentats d’Atlas Asni de 1994 à Marrakech, aux connotations algériennes bien particulières, la réaction du Maroc, du temps du défunt Souverain, n’a été aucunement démesurée.» Feu Hassan II, n’a pas répondu à Houari Boumédiène. Au contraire, il a très bien géré ces moments de crises. Au lieu de faire de même, il a plutôt choisi d’encourager davantage les Algériens à venir au Maroc, leur deuxième pays, pour s’y installer…, même définitivement s’ils le voulaient. Le Maroc est une terre des hommes de paix. Aujourd’hui, l’histoire lui donne raison. Des Algériens qui ont répondu à son appel, plusieurs occupent des postes de responsabilités dans l’administration marocaine «, fait remarquer Mohamed El Herouachi. Mieux encore, Feu Hassan II avait su tirer profit de cette manne inespérée et abondante de main d’œuvre pour remettre sur pied les fermes abandonnées par les colons français. Comme la plupart des expulsés étaient de simples agriculteurs, le défunt Roi n’a trouvé aucun mal à leur trouver du travail en leur cédant, entre autres, des terrains agricoles, notamment ceux de la Sodéa et la Sogeta. Les autres Marocains qui faisaient du commerce entre le Maroc et l’Algérie ont plutôt bien réussi leur intégration dans le pays. Il y a même de grosses fortunes qui sont nées après leur retour en 1975. Restent ceux qui ont été spoliés de leurs biens et éloignés de leurs familles. Pour ceux-là justement, le pouvoir algérien doit absolument rendre des comptes.

Redalinho

December 6th, 2006, 06:15 PM

Redalinho

December 6th, 2006, 06:15 PM

Ratoncito

January 14th, 2007, 05:40 PM

El Sáhara debe alcanzar su independencia; España lo hizo muy mal en un momento de debilidad política y económica.

Los territorios no se deben someter por la fuerza de las armas y hay que devolver a los saharauis su propio territorio.

Desde España apoyamos la independencia del Sáhara y que Marruecos se retire de este territorio ocupado.

LLevamos tiempo criticando la ocupación de IRAK por los EEUU; ¿hasta cuándo nos vamos a quedar callados ante la ocupación SÁHARA por Marruecos?

Saludos

Ratoncito

January 14th, 2007, 05:40 PM

Ratoncito

January 14th, 2007, 05:40 PM

Aícha

January 14th, 2007, 05:58 PM

Aícha

January 14th, 2007, 05:58 PM

Aícha

January 14th, 2007, 05:58 PM

smussuw

January 14th, 2007, 06:05 PM

Excuse my ignorance but can some one tell me why Algeria stick its butt in this issue? I mean what do they have with the Polisario?

smussuw

January 14th, 2007, 06:05 PM

Excuse my ignorance but can some one tell me why Algeria stick its butt in this issue? I mean what do they have with the Polisario?

smussuw

January 14th, 2007, 06:05 PM

Excuse my ignorance but can some one tell me why Algeria stick its butt in this issue? I mean what do they have with the Polisario?

belgiumguy

January 14th, 2007, 09:12 PM

Excuse my ignorance but can some one tell me why Algeria stick its butt in this issue? I mean what do they have with the Polisario?

If they retreat now,Algeria(the generals) will make themselves ridiculous.But they know they can't win,they just try to win time so Morocco continues to have thousands of soldiers and weapons in the Sahara so we will lose money.:bash:

belgiumguy

January 14th, 2007, 09:12 PM

belgiumguy

January 14th, 2007, 09:12 PM

nwusaad

January 15th, 2007, 03:00 AM

-Algeria was communist/socialist state until early 90s, hence it did not have good relation with liberal (as opposed to centralized) neighbour Morocco. Supporting Polisario is a way to extend the socialist revolution towards morocco by destabilizing the regime. After 30yrs of financial, military backing...it is hard to give up ones position for the self-determination and freedom of oppressed populations (as they described struggle in the same way as US-Vietnam conflict, and other colonization problems.) Especially given that it is the same military junta thats been controlling the country. (vengeance: Morocco and Algeria already fought two direct wars and indirectly for 30 yrs with Morocco against Algerian-backed polisario)
-The need for military investment and purchase is also source of enrichment as these generals and political figures can gain colossal commissions as they argue for the necessity of defending themselves and sahrawi brothers from dictatorial Morocco.
-Also, I think that it allows them to speak as leader of North Africa in intl organizations, since Morocco is not part of the African Union because SADR (polisario) is a full member. Consequently, in order to not allow a country to develop, another state would want a conflict to always persist and keep them busy with internal trouble. After all it is half of Morocco's landmass that is at stake.

nwusaad

January 15th, 2007, 03:00 AM

nwusaad

January 15th, 2007, 03:00 AM

Redalinho

January 18th, 2007, 04:34 PM

Mohamed Abdelaziz ordonne le verrouillage des camps

Les familles sahraouies marocaines séquestrées dans les camps de Tindouf, au Sud de l'Algérie, viennent d'être privées d'autorisations de sortie des camps sur ordre de Mohamed Abdelaziz, chef des séparatistes du Polisario. Selon le Comité spécial chargé du Sahara marocain en Europe (CSSME), cet ordre a été donné à l'issue d'une réunion marathonienne de 15 heures, au cours de laquelle Mohamed Abdelaziz a ordonné aux responsables de cette entité (Polisario) de veiller à la suspension totale des autorisations de sortie des camps. «Si le mouvement de retour au Maroc se poursuit à la cadence actuelle, les camps se videraient», a-t-il admis.

Redalinho

January 18th, 2007, 04:34 PM

Redalinho

January 18th, 2007, 04:34 PM

Redalinho

January 18th, 2007, 04:35 PM

Separatists prevent Sahrawi Populations from fleeing Tindouf camps

Geneva, Jan.17 - The separatist movement "Polisario" has prevented the Sahrawi populations held against their will in the Tindouf camps (southwestern Algeria) from fleeing these camps, following an order issued by their chief Mohamed Abdelaziz.

According to the European Special Committee in Charge of the Moroccan Sahara, this blockade was ordered by Abdelaziz on the pretext that "if the return movement to Morocco continues at the current pace, the camps will be emptied."

Anticipating the dangerous fallouts of such a decision, the Committee addressed a letter to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), calling for "an urgent intervention."

This suspension increases the sufferings endured daily by these populations and worsens their life conditions through deprivations of all kind and endless intimidations that are inflicted before the very eyes of Algerian authorities, reads the letter.

The Algeria-backed "Polisario" has been inflicting untold sufferings to Sahrawis living in the camps of Tindouf, after these Moroccan citizens were lured into the camps in the mid-seventies by false propaganda and the movement's claim to separate the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara, from the North African Kingdom.

The Committee decried the systematic humiliating treatment inflicted to the sequestered populations in the camps, the embezzlement of humanitarian aids that was revealed by several NGOs and the refusal of organizing population census in the camps as requested by human rights NGOs. It also called for lifting the blockade imposed on the camps of Tindouf.

In another development, the "Association sahraouie pour la défense des droits de l'Homme” called for opening an international investigation into the misuse of USD 1.1Mn granted by the Canary Islands government to the Polisario.

The request was expressed by NGO chairman, Ramdan Massaoud Larbi, who led a delegation to the Canary Islands on Wednesday.

Redalinho

January 18th, 2007, 04:35 PM

Redalinho

January 18th, 2007, 04:35 PM

Izman

January 20th, 2007, 06:47 AM

Te consejo que estudies un poco la historia de Marruecos.

Es suficiente con que se la lea :)

Izman

January 20th, 2007, 06:47 AM

Te consejo que estudies un poco la historia de Marruecos.

Es suficiente con que se la lea :)

Izman

January 20th, 2007, 06:47 AM

Te consejo que estudies un poco la historia de Marruecos.

Es suficiente con que se la lea :)

Redalinho

January 24th, 2007, 06:25 PM

"Kenya Times'' met en avant le soutien grandissant à la position du Maroc

Nairobi, 24/01/07 - Le quotidien ''Kenya Times'' a mis en avant mercredi le soutien grandissant dont bénéficie la position du Maroc sur la question du Sahara, en particulier suite à la proposition d'autonomie des provinces du sud.

Le journal kenyan se base dans son constat sur les déclarations faites récemment par les responsables de plusieurs pays qui ont exprimé leur soutien à une solution définitive acceptable par les parties, conformément à la légalité internationale.

Parmi les personnalités citées par le quotidien, figure le président de la majorité parlementaire au Pérou, Luis Javier Gonzales Posada, qui avait réitéré le soutien de son pays à l'intégrité territoriale du Maroc et considéré que le dernier vote de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies sur la question du Sahara est ''un tournant clair'' en faveur du projet d'autonomie proposé par le Maroc.

Le Pérou fait partie des pays qui se sont abstenus de voter en faveur du texte présenté par l'Algérie à l'Assemblée générale.

Par ailleurs, "Kenya Times" rapporte aussi le soutien de Singapour aux efforts déployés par le Maroc en vue de trouver une solution à ce dossier, une position exprimée dernièrement par le ministre d'Etat singapourien Goh Chok Tong.

Cité par le journal, le responsable singapourien a affirmé que le règlement de ce dossier ouvrira la voie à la stabilité et la paix dans la région, tout en assurant que son pays est favorable à la recherche de toute solution par les voies pacifiques et dans le respect du droit international.

Redalinho

January 24th, 2007, 06:25 PM

Redalinho

January 24th, 2007, 06:25 PM

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:11 PM

Can anyone tell me why my last 4 posts have dissappeared?? is this how the moroccan forum works: censoring any post that gives a different view on the subject ?? I was just reporting facts that obviously some moderator didnt want to hear Im extremely dissapointed with this highly biased action
an explanation would be very much appreciated, Thanks

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:11 PM

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:11 PM

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:34 PM

Well since nobody has contacted me for an explanation yet and having in mind that those posts were not offensive to anyone and just relating facts and news regarding the Western Sahara conflict wich is what this thread is all about , I will assumme that my missing posts are due to a "technical error" and I´ll post them again

Nicaragua and the Saharawi Republic declare the reestablishment of diplomatic relations

Managua (Nicaragua), 12/01/2007 (SPS) The Republic of Nicaragua and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (RASD) declared, Today in a joint communiqué signed by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the two countries in the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, the reestablishment of diplomatic relations "to the benefit of the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two peoples and Governments".

Here is the translation of the communiqué, originally issued in Sanish and Arabic, and jointly signed by Mr. Samuel Santos, Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, and Mr. Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the RASD.

" The Republic of Nicaragua

Central America

Ministery for Foreign Affairs

Managua – Nicaragua

JOINT COMMUNIQUE

Inspired by the principles of the United Nations Charter and in conformity with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the Governments of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and the Republic of Nicaragua decided, Today, to re-establish diplomatic relations to the benefit of the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two peoples and Governments.

By subscribing to the present Joint Communiqué, the Government of Nicaragua gives proof on the universal nature of its foreign policy, as well as its respect to peoples’ free self-determination and the juridical equality between States as the basis for peace, security and cooperation in the international relations.

The present Joint Communiqué was signed in the city of Managua, in the 12 January 2007.

On behalf of the the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (RASD)

Mohamed Salem Ould Salek

Ministers for Foreign Affairs

On behalf of the Republic of Nicaragua

Samuel Santos

Ministers for Foreign Affairs ". (SPS)

060/090/100 121445 Jan 06 SPS

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:34 PM

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:34 PM

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:37 PM

Germany calls for the respect of the international legality in the Western Sahara, Mrs Sparwasser declares

Berlin, 18/01/2007 (SPS) The Director of the Middle East and Maghreb Department in the German Foreign Affairs Ministry, Mrs. Sabine Sparwasser, reaffirmed on Wednesday "the position of her country advocating the necessity of respecting the international legality in the Western Sahara and the respect of the Saharawi people’s right to self-determination", a source from the Saharawi Representation in Germany indicated.

Mrs. Sabine, who was giving a speech during the reception organised on the honour of the Saharawi human rights activist and ex-political prisoner, Ali Salem Tamek, declared she was "concerned" about the striking testimony the activist presented, recalling that "the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) has always supported the resolutions and recommendations aiming to enable the Saharawi people to enjoy their legitimate rights ".

"The FRG voted in favour of the resolution approved by the UN General Assembly in its last session, which called for the decolonisation of the Western Sahara on the basis of the principle of self-determination", she said.

The meeting took place at the seat of the Foreign Affairs Ministry with the presence of the Director of the Department of North Africa, Mrs. Berg and Polisario Front Representative in Germany, Mr. Jamal Zakari.

The Saharawi human rights activist had before met, at the seat of the Bundestag , with the spokesperson of the Commissions for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid, Mr. Straesse, and the spokesperson of Cooperation within the Socialist Party’s Parliamentarian intergroup, Mrs. Gabriele Groneberg.

Mr. Tamek presented a detailed report, before his interlocutors, about the sufferings of the people of the Western Sahara for more than 30 years, the Moroccan military wall that separates the members of the Saharawi families, recalling that there is an ongoing international campaign against this "wall of shame" that divides the Western Sahara in two, he said.

On their part the German Parliamentarians expressed their concern about the human rights violations in the Western Sahara and reaffirmed the "need for an international action that would enable the Saharawi people to exercise its right to self-determination".

They also declared they were willing to undertake concrete initiatives regarding the question of the Western Sahara to raise it higher in the agenda of the two Parliamentarian aforementioned Commissions. They further called on their Government to play an active role in this issue during its presidency of the European Union.

On another hand, the Saharawi human right activist also met with the President of the Green Party, M. Stroebele, who estimated that the "failure of the UN in the implementation of its resolutions in the Western Sahara, especially the Baker Plan harms its credibility".

Mr. Stroebele also called on Morocco to respect the international legality through the organisation of a free and transparent referendum that enables the Saharawi people to freely decide over their future far from any political or military constraints. (SPS)

020/090/000/TRD 181340 JAN 07 SPS

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:37 PM

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:37 PM

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:44 PM

The World Social Forum Parliamentarian Platform demands the immediate decolonisation of Western Sahara

Nairobi, 24/01/2007 (SPS) The World Social Forum Parliamentarian Platform (FSM) approved, Today in Nairobi, a motion of support to the “self-determination of the Saharawi people, the immediate implementation of the UN’s resolutions and the holding of a free and just self-determination referendum for the Saharawi people".

Proposed by Brazilian Parliamentarians, Jakson Barito and Vanesa Fraziditin, the text was unanimously ratified by the assembly of the Parliamentarians Platform held within the framework of the closing debates, conferences and workshops of this 7th edition of the World Social Forum.

The parliamentarians, from dozens nationalities, expressed in this motion their support to "the Saharawi people, who are struggling to get back their homeland from Morocco", "the latter having divided the Saharawi territory in two with a military wall of more than 2500 km long”.

On another hand, the fourth day of the Forum was marked by a massive participation by the members of the Saharawi delegation to different workshops, debates and to the General Assembly of the Forum to underline again the need to "decolonise the last colony in Africa".

Concerning the Saharawi stand, where the Saharawi Campaign for the Banning of Landmine and the Association of the Families of the Saharawi Disappeareds and Prisoners (AFAPREDESA) jointly exhibit pictures of the victims of the Moroccan repression in the occupied territories of the Western Sahara. The stand attracted the attention of hundreds participants who come to hear explanations about the situation and express their solidarity with the Saharawi cause.

The Saharawi tent, on its part, became an additional space for discussions, debates and cultural exchange with visitors from many countries, who visit the Saharawi to drink the Saharawi tea and start the contact with the members of the delegation.

Finally, the Saharawi musical group “Estrella Polisaria”, which is accompanying the Saharawi delegation performed in 4 events and as got many other rendezvous. (SPS)

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:44 PM

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:44 PM

GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:51 PM

Tous les sahraouis sont pour l’indépendance du Sahara Occidental, affirme le journaliste marocain Ali Lemrabet

Madrid, 13/01/2007 (SPS) Tous les Sahraouis, qu’ils vivent dans les camps de réfugiés ou dans les territoires du Sahara Occidental sous occupation marocaine, sont pour l'indépendance et c’est pour cela que le Maroc rejette le référendum d’autodétermination, affirme le journaliste marocain Ali Lemrabet, dans une contribution publiée samedi par le quotidien espagnol, El Mundo.

Dans cette contribution, Ali Lemrabet répond à un article d'un universitaire espagnol (Bernabe Lopez Garcia), publié dernièrement par le journal El Pais, selon lequel la société espagnole a appuyé inconditionnellement durant des décennies les Sahraouis vivant dans les camps de réfugiés, ignorant le gros de la population sahraouie résidant dans l’ancienne colonie espagnole.
Cette idée, "assez proche d’une thèse en vogue au Maroc", reflète une "fausse croyance selon laquelle les Sahraouis seraient divisés en deux camps": ceux qui soutiennent l’indépendance et ceux qui ne partagent pas cette option, a-t-il souligné.

Pour le journaliste marocain, "il n’est pas nécessaire d’ajouter que si tout cela était vrai, les amis et les thuriféraires du Maroc --il y en a aussi en Espagne-- devraient inciter les autorités de mon pays à organiser rapidement, sous la supervision de l’ONU, un référendum d’autodétermination pour que nos sahraouis (ceux des territoires occupés) puissent proclamer au monde qu’ils nous aiment...".

Mais, la "réalité ne se trouve pas dans les journaux télévisés, ni dans les contrevérités publiées par notre presse depuis plus de 30 ans", a encore affirmé Ali Lemrabet, relevant qu’"il faut être aveugle" pour ne pas se rendre compte de "l’évidence" que, hormis une certaine classe de notables que l’on peut qualifier de "girouettes", étant donné qu’ils s’accommoderaient d’un quelconque pouvoir", les Sahraouis sont "indépendantistes".

"30 ans de répression et de négation de l’existence d’un peuple et d’une culture sahraouie ont produit l’effet contraire" à celui recherché, a-t-il poursuivi.

Ali Lemrabet a indiqué, dans ce contexte, que, lors d'une récente visite qu'il a effectuée aux territoires sahraouis occupés, l'un de ces notables, qui en public se disent "pro-marocains", tenait, en privé, un discours favorable à l'indépendance.

"Hassan II et Mohamed VI ont échoué dans leur politique de marocanisation des esprits et des cœurs des Sahraouis (...). Si nous ne pouvons pas compter sur ceux qui bénéficient de notre présence au Sahara (...) que peut-on attendre du reste de la population", s'est-il interrogé.

"Les autorités marocaines connaissent cette réalité et c'est pour cela qu'elles s'obstinent à empêcher la tenue d'un référendum d'autodétermination", a-t-il noté.

Il a déploré que le conflit du Sahara Occidental ait "appauvri économiquement les Marocains, freinant leur développement et désactivant les partis politiques, convertis en porte-voix du régime et gardiens du dogme officiel".

Il a souligné dans ce sens le paradoxe du "progressiste marocain qui comprend et appuie la légitime revendication des palestiniens à avoir leur Etat mais qui devient intolérant" lorsqu'il s'agit de tenir un "débat argumenté" avec un Sahraoui qui soutient l'indépendance. (SPS)

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Todos los saharauis están por la independencia del Sáhara Occidental, afirma el periodista marroquí Ali Lmrabet
Madrid, 13/01/2007 (SPS) Todos los saharauis, ya sea que vivan en los campamentos de refugiados o en los territorios del Sáhara Occidental bajo ocupación marroquí, están por la independencia, por eso Marruecos rechaza el referéndum de autodeterminación, afirma el periodista marroquí Ali Lmrabet, en un artículo publicado el sábado por el diario español El Mundo.

En dicha colaboración, Ali Lmrabet responde al artículo del profesor universitario español Bernabé López García), recientemente publicado por el diario El País, según el cual la sociedad española apoya incondicionalmente durante decenas de años a los saharauis que viven en los campamentos de refugiados, ignorando al grueso de la población saharaui que reside en la antigua colonia española.

Esta idea, "bastante próxima a una tesis en boga en Marruecos", refleja una "falsa creencia según la cual los saharauis estarían divididos en dos campos" : los que apoyan la independencia y los que no comparten esta opción, señala.

Para el periodista marroquí, "no es necesario añadir que si todo esto fuera cierto, los amigos y los turiferarios de Marruecos --hay bastantes en España-- deberían incitar a las autoridades de mi país a organizar rápidamente, bajo la supervisión de la ONU, un referéndum de autodeterminación para que nuestros saharauis (los de los territorios ocupados) puedan proclamar al mundo que nos quieren...".

Pero "la realidad ne se encuentra en los diario televisados, ni en las contraverdades publicadas por nuestra prensa desde hace más de 30 años", sigue afirmando Ali Lmrabet, señalando que "hay que estar ciego" para no darse cuenta de "la evidencia" de que, aparte de cierto tipo de notables a los que se puede calificar de "veletas", dado que se acomodan a cualquier poder", los saharauis son "independentistas".

"30 años de represión y de negación de la existencia de un pueblo y de una cultura saharaui han producido el efecto contrario" al buscado, afirma.

En ese contexto, Ali Lmrabet indica que, durante la reciente visita que él efectuó a los territorios saharauis ocupados, uno de esos notables que en público dicen ser "pro-marroquíes", mantenía en privado un discurso favorable a la independencia.

"Hassan II y Mohamed VI han fracasado en su política de marroquización de los espíritus y de los corazones de los saharauis (...). Si no podemos contar con los que se benefician de nuestra presencia en el Sáhara (...) ¿qué se puede esperar del resto de la población", se pregunta.

"Las autoridades marroquíes conocen esta realidad y es por eso que se obstinan en impedir la celebración de un referéndum de autodeterminación", hace notar.

Se lamenta de que el conflicto del Sáhara Occidental haya "empobrecido económicamente a los marroquíes, frenando su desarrollo y desactivando los partidos políticos, convertidos en portavoces del régimen y guardianes del dogma oficial".

En ese sentido, señala la paradoja del "progresista marroquí que comprende y apoya la legítima reivindicación de los palestinos a tener su Estado pero que se convierte en intolerante" cuando se trata de mantener un "debate con argumentos" con un saharaui que apoya la independencia. (SPS)

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GlobalJoe

January 25th, 2007, 05:51 PM

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January 25th, 2007, 05:51 PM

Casa

January 25th, 2007, 06:08 PM

Polisario Secretly Trains Separatist Groups to Make Bombs and Use Weapons, Press

Rabat, Jan. 23 - Polisario secretly train separatist groups to make bombs and use weapons, said on Tuesday the Arabic-speaking daily "Assabah".

Quoting reliable sources, the daily said these groups, composed of ten people each, are supervised by "Polisario militias" that take into charge and host the new recruits.

Noting that more than five groups have already undertaken training to make bombs and use weapons, these sources say these groups constitute a threat to the region security and stability.

These trainings reflect the worries of some analysts, who do not exclude Polisario's conversion to terrorism due to the despair that has prevailed among the Tindouf camps populations.

Polisario is an Algeria-backed separatist group, which lays claims, since 1976 to Morocco's Southern Provinces, The Sahara. The Southern Provinces, a former Spanish colony, were retrieved by Morocco under the Madrid Accords, signed with Spain and Mauritania in 1975.

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January 25th, 2007, 06:09 PM

Morocco to submit soon 'Final version' of Sahara autonomy proposal
Rabat, Jan 19 - A "final version" of Morocco's proposal to grant a large autonomy to its Southern Provinces, known as the Sahara, will be presented in the few coming months, revealed, here Thursday, Moroccan Minister of Communication Nabil benabdellah.
The autonomy to be granted- under Morocco's national sovereignty- to the Sahara region is part of the North African country's efforts to find a solution to the three-decade long Sahara dispute opposing it to the Algeria-backed separatist movement "Polisario". The latter has been claiming, since 1976, independence of the former Spanish colony which Morocco retrieved a year earlier under the tripartite Madrid Agreement signed with Spain and Mauritania.
In a press briefing following the weekly cabinet meeting, Benabdellah said that Morocco pursues its efforts to find a negotiated political solution to the Sahara issue that is accepted by the parties.
The minister who is also spokesman of the government commented on the recent statements by the Polisario leader's spouse to a Spanish daily on the situation in the Camps of Tindouf, inside the Algerian territory, where the separatists established their so-called republic. He said these statement confirm the “existence of a real crisis in these camps because of the pressure exerted on the populations held against their will and the daily violations of human rights.”

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January 25th, 2007, 06:09 PM

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Casa

January 25th, 2007, 06:10 PM

Peruvian MP deems UNGA vote on Sahara 'clear turning point' in favor of autonomy
Rabat, Jan.6 - Visiting President of the parliamentarian majority group in Peru, Luis Javier Gonzales Posada Eyzaguirre deemed, here Friday, the vote of the United Nations General Assembly (UN GA) on the Sahara "a clear turning point" in favor of the autonomy project, which Morocco proposes to settle the Sahara dispute.

Peru backs Morocco's territorial integrity, Posada told press at the end of a meeting with the Chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Sahrawi Affairs, Khalihenna Ould Errachid, recalling that his country abstained from voting at the last UN General Assembly in favor of an Algerian draft on the Sahara.

The Sahara issue was triggered in the mid-seventies by the claim of the Algeria-backed "Polisario" to separate the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara, from the motherland, after they were retrieved from Spanish rule in line with the Madrid accords signed in 1975.

He also stressed the importance of dialogue in the conflicts resolution, calling to promote dialogue with Latin America countries to acquaint them with the realities of the Sahara issue.

The Peruvian MP hailed the excellent relations between Morocco and Peru, deeming them "exemplary".

Luis Javier Gonzales Posada, who is on a visit to the kingdom till January 10, also met Moroccan Prime Minister Driss Jettou.

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January 25th, 2007, 06:11 PM

Singapore backs Morocco's efforts to settle Sahara conflict
Rabat, Jan.8 - Singapore backs Morocco's efforts to reach a "just and equitable" solution to the Sahara issue, said here Singaporean Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong.

"We support the efforts displayed to reach a just and equitable solution to the Sahara issue," stressed Chok Tong in an interview published Monday by the French-speaking daily "Le Matin du Sahara et du Maghreb".

The Sahara issue was triggered in the mid-seventies by the claim of the Algeria-backed "Polisario" to separate the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara, from the motherland, after they were retrieved from Spanish rule in line with the Madrid accords signed in 1975.

He also deemed that the settlement of this issue "would bring a lasting and stable peace to the region," noting that "the position of Singapore on such issues is based on two principal considerations. Initially, it is preferable to reach any solution in a peaceful way and by consensus. Secondly, we are attached to the respect of the rule of the international law, as well as of international agreements and engagements."

As to bilateral relations, Singaporean official said that the two countries are to sign an Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement.

Chok Tong started on Monday an official six-day visit to Morocco.

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January 25th, 2007, 06:12 PM

Sao Tome backs 'peaceful solution' principle to settle Sahara dispute
Rabat, Jan.10 - The Sahara dispute should be settled "through dialogue between the parties involved," said, here Wednesday, visiting Sao Tome Foreign minister, Carlos Gustavo Don Anjos.

The autonomy project, which Morocco proposes for its Southern Provinces, is likely to provide a solution as soon as "all the parties concerned agree on an appropriate stance," Don Anjos told MAP at the end of a meeting with Moroccan foreign minister, Mohammed Benaissa.

Carlos Gustavo Don Anjos also stressed that his country favours "a peaceful solution that can ultimately unite rather than divide brothers."

The Sahara issue was triggered in the mid-seventies by the Algeria-backed separatist movement "Polisario" which has been seeking, since 1976, to separate the Moroccan southern provinces, known as the Sahara, from the rest of the North African country. The former Spanish colony was retrieved by Morocco under the Madrid Accords signed in 1975 by Spain, Morocco and Mauritania.

On his part, the Moroccan Foreign Minister hailed “the positive and constructive stance” of Sao Tome, favouring a negotiated, and consensus-based final political solution to the Sahara issue which cares for Morocco’s sovereignty and territorial integrity of Morocco.

Talks between the two ministers also focused on bilateral cooperation. In this regard, Sao Tome minister expressed his country’s willingness to benefit from Morocco’s experience in different fields, in particular in agriculture, fisheries and tourism sectors.

Benaissa reiterated Morocco’s commitment to Africa, as well as its readiness to assist African states, part of the South-South cooperation strategy.

Carlos Gustavo Don Anjos was also received by Moroccan Prime Minister, Driss Jettou. The two officials held talks on bilateral cooperation in many fields, namely, tourism, agriculture, fishery and training.

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January 25th, 2007, 06:14 PM

'Freedom for All' bepommels OHCHR report on Sahara
London, Jan. 20 - British NGO, Freedom for All, has expressed regret that the recent report of the UN Office of the Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the Moroccan Sahara and the refugees camps in Tinfoud, western Algeria would undermine the "impartiality and objectivity of the office's reputation and have "unfortunate" consequences on the UN and the OHCHR.

The NGO's criticism stems from the fact that the UN body's report on the situation in the Polisario-run camps was only based on "hearsay" rather on accurate evidence, the NGO wrote in a letter to the OHCHR head, Louise Arbour.

The report was coached following the OHCHR mission (May 15/23 and June 19, 2006) to the Moroccan Sahara - a territory claimed, since 1976, by the Polisario, with the support of Algeria - and to the Polisario-run Tindouf camps, western Algeria where thousands of Moroccans are kept against their will since the mid-Seventies.

Freedom for All deemed that the UN body had to "curtail its activities and declare the investigative mission impractical and unviable” since it was unable to obtain the requisite permits to enter the refugee camps in Tindouf and to “talk to those living under the Polisario Front’s control.”

This failure, the NGO hammered, “compromises the credibility and ability of the OHCHR in the future to investigate human rights’ abuses objectively and accurately.”

The NGO wonders how the human rights body could draw any conclusions since it failed “in its own words” to obtain any evidence from its visit to the camps, and concludes that “the OHCHR should not have attempted to write a report.”

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January 25th, 2007, 06:17 PM

Repression in Tindouf camps reflects Polisario's fear of Sahrawis' support to autonomy Project
- Polisario's repression against the uprising in Tindouf camps reflects the separatists' fear of the Sahrawis' support to the autonomy project within the framework of Moroccan sovereignty, said, here Wednesday, Foreign minister, Mohamed Benaissa.

Morocco is mulling a proposal to grant large autonomy - under its sovereignty and territorial integrity - to the Sahara to solve the dispute related to these provinces, which the Algeria-backed Polisario separatists lay claim to since the mid-Seventies.

Speaking at the House of Representatives question time, Benaissa said these camps witnessed, during the last week of June 2006, a great uprising during which the sequestered voiced their rejection of the cruel acts perpetrated against them by "Polisario" gangs.

The minister said that in order to silence the voices that claim their rights within the framework of international legality, "Polisario" militias, supervised by the Algerian military police forces, set up "mobile sequestration camps" that are difficult to locate.

As for the efforts and measures undertaken to deal with this situation, Benaissa said Morocco sent a message to the UN Secretary General calling him to shed light on these practices and to determine the responsibilities. The Kingdom, he said, included in this message many testimonies that highlight the worrying degradation of the human rights situation in Tindouf camps.

Morocco also noted the responsibility of Algeria in ensuring the body safety of the sequestered, as it hosts the camps and the organizational structures of the “polisario”, he added.

Benaissa also recalled that through its diplomacy, Morocco conducted a campaign denouncing these acts and inviting the international community to step in urgently to put an end to these violations and avoid a human tragedy.

Casa

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aymour

January 25th, 2007, 10:54 PM

aymour

January 25th, 2007, 10:54 PM

aymour

January 25th, 2007, 10:54 PM

aymour

January 25th, 2007, 11:01 PM

dit moi globaljoe quand tu vois des sahraouis vivre bien et en paix a layoun que recent tu??

aymour

January 25th, 2007, 11:01 PM

dit moi globaljoe quand tu vois des sahraouis vivre bien et en paix a layoun que recent tu??

aymour

January 25th, 2007, 11:01 PM

dit moi globaljoe quand tu vois des sahraouis vivre bien et en paix a layoun que recent tu??

jimjohn

January 26th, 2007, 08:46 AM

Rabat, July 21 - France reiterated, here Thursday, its will to find a political solution to the Sahara dispute that opposes the Algeria-backed Polisario separatist movement to Morocco for three decades now.

The stance was voiced by France's ambassador in Rabat, Jean-François Thibault, who received chairman of the Royal Advisory Council for Sahrawi Affairs (CORCAS), Khali Henna Ould Errachid.

The diplomat stressed the will of France, an important actor on the international scene, to work for a political solution to the conflict in accordance with the international legality.

Ould Errachid described the autonomy project for the southern provinces, which Morocco is due to submit with a view to settle the Sahara dispute, as an appropriate platform to associate the populations of the provinces to the management of their own affairs.

In a speech the king addressed past March from the southern town of Laayoune, he announced the establishment of the CORCAS to contribute to defending Morocco's territorial integrity and to shed light on the national Cause and the efforts made by Morocco.

The council is composed of elected officials, who constitute more than 50% of its 140 members and includes civil society members operating in the human rights and social fields.

The problem of the Western Sahara is a problem of decolonization, it is not a problem between Algeria and Morocco, Morocco is obstinated since decades has to push back a referendum in the Western Sahara as asks it UNO and the sahraouis and as requires it the Baker plan. I did not think of finding this vulgar propaganda on this forum!

P.S: more than 80 countries in the world recognize the Arab republic sahraoui democratic R.A.S.D of which South Africa

jimjohn

January 26th, 2007, 08:46 AM

jimjohn

January 26th, 2007, 08:46 AM

aymour

January 26th, 2007, 02:37 PM

The problem of the Western Sahara is a problem of decolonization, it is not a problem between Algeria and Morocco, Morocco is obstinated since decades has to push back a referendum in the Western Sahara as asks it UNO and the sahraouis and as requires it the Baker plan. I did not think of finding this vulgar propaganda on this forum!

P.S: more than 80 countries in the world recognize the Arab republic sahraoui democratic R.A.S.D of which South Africa

tu te trompe c'est une question d'une poigné de separatistes soutenues par les enemies du royaume, vive le maroc de tanger a lgouira, vive le sahara marocain :banana: .

aymour

January 26th, 2007, 02:37 PM

aymour

January 26th, 2007, 02:37 PM

Redalinho

January 26th, 2007, 03:19 PM

The problem of the Western Sahara is a problem of decolonization, it is not a problem between Algeria and Morocco, Morocco is obstinated since decades has to push back a referendum in the Western Sahara as asks it UNO and the sahraouis and as requires it the Baker plan. I did not think of finding this vulgar propaganda on this forum!

P.S: more than 80 countries in the world recognize the Arab republic sahraoui democratic R.A.S.D of which South Africa

You should use the right tense and say : It has been recognized by 80 countries in the world and only few countries ( 40) most of them are small islands in the pacific and micro-states in Africa are still maintaining diplomatic relations with this fantomatic republic

Ps: baker's plan has been abandonished since Morocco doin't want it ;)

Redalinho

January 26th, 2007, 03:19 PM

The problem of the Western Sahara is a problem of decolonization, it is not a problem between Algeria and Morocco, Morocco is obstinated since decades has to push back a referendum in the Western Sahara as asks it UNO and the sahraouis and as requires it the Baker plan. I did not think of finding this vulgar propaganda on this forum!

P.S: more than 80 countries in the world recognize the Arab republic sahraoui democratic R.A.S.D of which South Africa

You should use the right tense and say : It has been recognized by 80 countries in the world and only few countries ( 40) most of them are small islands in the pacific and micro-states in Africa are still maintaining diplomatic relations with this fantomatic republic

Ps: baker's plan has been abandonished since Morocco doin't want it ;)

Redalinho

January 26th, 2007, 03:19 PM

The problem of the Western Sahara is a problem of decolonization, it is not a problem between Algeria and Morocco, Morocco is obstinated since decades has to push back a referendum in the Western Sahara as asks it UNO and the sahraouis and as requires it the Baker plan. I did not think of finding this vulgar propaganda on this forum!

P.S: more than 80 countries in the world recognize the Arab republic sahraoui democratic R.A.S.D of which South Africa

You should use the right tense and say : It has been recognized by 80 countries in the world and only few countries ( 40) most of them are small islands in the pacific and micro-states in Africa are still maintaining diplomatic relations with this fantomatic republic

Ps: baker's plan has been abandonished since Morocco doin't want it ;)

jimjohn

January 27th, 2007, 07:46 AM

tu te trompe c'est une question d'une poigné de separatistes soutenues par les enemies du royaume, vive le maroc de tanger a lgouira, vive le sahara marocain :banana: .

Each time I see Morrocans on a forum, I laugh, I know that they will make their propaganda. However it is not difficult: let UNO organize a referendum in the old Spanish territories and stop taking the Westerners for the naive ones!

jimjohn

January 27th, 2007, 07:46 AM

jimjohn

January 27th, 2007, 07:46 AM

Redalinho

January 29th, 2007, 02:57 PM

Kenya-Maroc-Sahara : ''The Standard'' met en avant le soutien grandissant à la position du Maroc
Nairobi, 29/01/07- Le quotidien kenyan ''The Standard'' a mis en avant lundi le soutien grandissant à la position du Maroc sur la question du Sahara, en particulier suite à la proposition d'autonomie des provinces du sud.

Le journal kenyan étaye ce fait par des propos formulés récemment par les responsables de plusieurs pays qui ont exprimé leur soutien à une solution définitive acceptable par les parties, conformément à la légalité internationale.

Entre autres personnalités, le quotidien cite le président de la majorité parlementaire au Pérou, Luis Javier Gonzales Posada, qui avait réitéré le soutien de son pays à l'intégrité territoriale du Maroc et considéré que le dernier vote de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies sur la question du Sahara est ''un tournant clair'' en faveur du projet d'autonomie proposé par le Maroc.

Le Pérou fait partie des pays qui se sont abstenus de voter en faveur du texte présenté par l'Algérie à l'Assemblée générale.

''The Standard'' met également en exergue le soutien de Singapour aux efforts déployés par le Maroc en vue de trouver ''une solution juste et équitable'' à ce dossier, une position exprimée dernièrement par le ministre d'Etat, Goh Chok Tong.

Cité par le journal, le responsable singapourien affirme que le règlement de ce dossier ouvrira la voie à une paix durable dans la région.

''The Standard'' s'arrête également sur le soutien de la Bulgarie aux efforts du Royaume en vue de trouver "une solution définitive et acceptable par les parties" à la question du Sahara, rapportant, dans ce sens, des propos de l'ambassadeur de ce pays à Rabat, Katya Petrova Todorova.

Redalinho

January 29th, 2007, 02:57 PM

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Redalinho

January 29th, 2007, 02:59 PM

Senegal calls African Union to help settle Sahara dispute
Addis Abeba, Jan. 27 - Senegal has called on the African Union (AU) to contribute to the search of a "lasting solution" to the Sahara dispute opposing Morocco to the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario" .

"Senegal, one of the most active members of a large group of Morocco's friends, who constitute today the majority of the AU member countries, once again invites the African organization to contribute to a lasting solution of the Sahara issue instead of staying away and making the same reports on the stalemate", Senegal's Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio told the 10th ordinary session of the AU Executive Council meeting here January 25-26.

He made it clear that by accepting the Polisario - proclaimed Sahrawi republic as a full-fledged member of the African Union, the latter has "excluded itself from an African issue that concerns it in the first place".

Morocco quit in 1984 the then Organization of African Unity (OAU), now called African Union, to protest against the so-called Sahrawi republic membership into the organization.

The Polisario, backed by Morocco’s eastern neighbor, Algeria, has been, since 1976 claming independence of the Moroccan Southern provinces, known as the Sahara. The former Spanish colony was retrieved by the kingdom in 1975 under the Tripartite Accords signed with Spain and Mauritania.

Tidian Gadio said the fact that the majority of member countries of the United nations General Assembly abstained from voting, last December 14, an Algerian-draft resolution on the Sahara, sends a “strong message by the International community which has enough of the stalemate and wishes to explore new avenues in the search of a new exit strategy “ that would benefit both parties.

Ninety-one countries, out of 192, abstained from voting while another 31 just preferred not to take part in the vote on the Algerian draft resolution which attempted to revive the peace plan mooted by former US Secretary of State James Baker and former representative of the UNSG to the Sahara. The plan, described as "buried" and "outdated" provided for a referendum on self-determination in the Moroccan Sahara.

The Senegalese top diplomat also welcomed Morocco’s proposal to grant a large autonomy for the Sahara inhabitants within the framework of Morocco’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The 10th session of the AU Executive Council that discussed social and economic issues as well as the situation in Somalia, Darfur and Ivory Coast, was held in preparation of the 8th African Summit slated for January 29-30.

Redalinho

January 29th, 2007, 02:59 PM

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Redalinho

January 29th, 2007, 08:53 PM

While Polisario says there is famine, it injects USD 2Mn in propaganda operation
Rabat, Jan. 29 - While Polisario says there is famine in Tindouf camps, southwestern Algeria, it is organizing, on February 27, spectacular festivities celebrating the anniversary of the self-proclamation of the so-called Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) in Tifarity, said a communiqué of the Association of the Moroccan Sahara (ASM).

According to a source close to the Algerian authorities, cited by ASM, these festivities will cost USD 2Mn, as expenditure on the transport of war machines, some 8,000 militiamen and hundreds of foreign invitees, in addition to water supply for 30,000 people.

The association, which deems this demo a provocation act against the Moroccan people, wonders how the separatists, who say there is famine in Tindouf camps, can organize such expensive festivities, while these funds can contribute in alleviating the sufferings of the camps population.

The association draws the attention of the international organizations that a genuine humanitarian tragedy is imminent in Tindouf camps, where dozens of thousands of women, children and old people suffering from malnutrition and diseases will be deported to Tifarity camps (some 400km) under inhumane conditions.

These people will serve as “figurants” in this operation, though this can be fatal for many of them, underlines ASM, calling upon the UN to step in to prevent Polisario -an Algeria-backed separatist group that lays claims on Morocco’s Southern Provinces (the Sahara)- from holding a military procession in Tifarity in order to preserve peace and security in the region.

Redalinho

January 29th, 2007, 08:53 PM

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January 29th, 2007, 08:53 PM

jimjohn

January 30th, 2007, 06:58 AM

Actually... the UN does not consider Western Sahara part of Morocco. I understand you feel strongly about that, Redalinho, but it's not like the whole world recognises the authority of Morocco in WS.

Quoting from Wikipedia:
"The legal status of the territory and the question of its sovereignty remains unresolved; the territory is contested between Morocco and Polisario Front. It is considered a non self-governed territory by the United Nations."

Now going completely off topic, if that's a pic of you, you should be posting it in the Post your pic thread! :)

No country in the world recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco on the territories of the Western Sahara !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

( it is necessary to stop with propaganda! And I am very sorry for our friends propagandists because in the future they will have very nasty surprises! )

jimjohn

January 30th, 2007, 06:58 AM

Actually... the UN does not consider Western Sahara part of Morocco. I understand you feel strongly about that, Redalinho, but it's not like the whole world recognises the authority of Morocco in WS.

Quoting from Wikipedia:
"The legal status of the territory and the question of its sovereignty remains unresolved; the territory is contested between Morocco and Polisario Front. It is considered a non self-governed territory by the United Nations."

Now going completely off topic, if that's a pic of you, you should be posting it in the Post your pic thread! :)

No country in the world recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco on the territories of the Western Sahara !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

( it is necessary to stop with propaganda! And I am very sorry for our friends propagandists because in the future they will have very nasty surprises! )

jimjohn

January 30th, 2007, 06:58 AM

Actually... the UN does not consider Western Sahara part of Morocco. I understand you feel strongly about that, Redalinho, but it's not like the whole world recognises the authority of Morocco in WS.

Quoting from Wikipedia:
"The legal status of the territory and the question of its sovereignty remains unresolved; the territory is contested between Morocco and Polisario Front. It is considered a non self-governed territory by the United Nations."

Now going completely off topic, if that's a pic of you, you should be posting it in the Post your pic thread! :)

No country in the world recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco on the territories of the Western Sahara !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

( it is necessary to stop with propaganda! And I am very sorry for our friends propagandists because in the future they will have very nasty surprises! )

Redalinho

January 31st, 2007, 01:33 AM

Rabat, Jan. 30 - King Mohammed VI of Morocco, through his adviser Mohamed Moatassim, has informed the government and the Parliament about the progress made in preparing the autonomy project for the Sahara, during meetings held January 29,30, a communiqué from the Private office of the King said Tuesday evening.

"In keeping with His Majesty's democratic, participatory and inclusive approach regarding the autonomy project for the Moroccan Sahara," the monarch, according to the communiqué, "gave his instructions for meetings" with Prime Minister Driss Jettou, House of Representatives Speaker Abdelouahed Radi, House of Councillors Speaker Mustapha Oukacha, and the President of the Royal Advisory Council for Saharan Affairs (CORCAS), Khali Hanna Quld Rechid. These meetings, aimed at informing these senior officials of "the progress made in preparing the autonomy project, and to seek their opinion in this regard."

They came, "as part of the ongoing intensive, broad-based consultations undertaken at national and local levels, involving political parties, the CORCAS, as well as the Shioukhs and dignitaries of the various tribes in the region, as a prelude to the forthcoming finalization of the Moroccan autonomy proposal", read the document.

The meetings took place after political parties and the CORCAS had submitted to the King their memoranda and views on the subject, the communiqué noted adding that participants hailed the king's "approach, and reiterated their full support for the Monarch's bold initiative concerning the Southern Provinces."

Morocco will soon make public the autonomy project for the Sahara as part of its efforts to put an end to the three-decade long dispute with the Algerian-backed separatist movement “Polisario” that claims independence of the Sahara. The former Spanish colony was retrieved by the North African country in 1975 under the Madrid Accords signed with Spain and Mauritania.

Redalinho

January 31st, 2007, 01:33 AM

Redalinho

January 31st, 2007, 01:33 AM

TooNs

January 31st, 2007, 03:58 PM

No country in the world recognizes the sovereignty of Morocco on the territories of the Western Sahara !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

( it is necessary to stop with propaganda! And I am very sorry for our friends propagandists because in the future they will have very nasty surprises! )

:)

Some countries that recognize the moroccan soveregnty over his Sahara:

Argentina:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030415/2003041521.html

China:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/001108/2000110824.html

Egypt:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990315/1999031549.html

Kuweit:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020525/2002052520.html

(in addition to 21 other countries: Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chile, Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Peru, Senegal, Serbia, Swaziland, Sudan, Vanuatu, Yemen)

TooNs

January 31st, 2007, 03:58 PM

TooNs

January 31st, 2007, 03:58 PM

Redalinho

February 1st, 2007, 06:17 PM

Une nouvelle structure sahraouie

Les Sahraouis qui ont fui Tindouf pour revenir au Maroc (appelés les ralliés) ont publié un communiqué à l’issue d’une réunion, disant qu’après plusieurs rencontres et concertations, il a été décidé de constituer un comité national préparatoire, comprenant des représentants de ralliés, qui sera chargé d’organiser la première rencontre nationale des ralliés.

CETTE commission tiendra sa première réunion dans les jours à venir. La date et le lieu de la rencontre n’ont pas encore été fixés.

Le communiqué porte la signature du « groupement de l’initiative pour la tenue d’une rencontre nationale des ralliés en réponse à l’appel royal la nation est clémente et miséricordieuse ».

Il est signé par 47 ralliés.

http://www.lereporter.ma/article.php3?id_article=3035

Redalinho

February 1st, 2007, 06:17 PM

Redalinho

February 1st, 2007, 06:17 PM

Redalinho

February 3rd, 2007, 01:30 AM

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39609000/gif/_39609905_surinam_map203.gif

Les responsables surinamiens partagent les préoccupations du Maroc au sujet de l'intégrité territoriale du Royaume, a affirmé le président de l'Assemblée nationale du Surinam, M. Paul Slamet Somohardjo.

M. Somohardjo qui a été reçu, vendredi à Rabat, par le président de la Chambre des représentants, M. Abdelwahed Radi, a ajouté que la vision et le traitement par les responsables surinamiens de plusieurs questions internationales et régionales ont changé depuis l'instauration d'un régime démocratique dans ce pays en 1987, soulignant que ses entretiens avec M. Radi lui ont permis d'être au fait de la réalité du dossier du sahara marocain.

M. Somohardjo a affirmé que sa visite au Maroc constitue un premier pas sur la voie de la consolidation des relations bilatérales à même de jeter les bases d'un avenir prometteur pour les deux pays.

Le président de l'Assemblé nationale du Surinam a indiqué qu'il va oeuvrer auprès du gouvernement de son pays en faveur d'une coopération avec le Maroc dans tous les domaines.

De son côté, M. Radi a exposé les principales étapes franchies par le Maroc pour le parachèvement de son intégrité territoriale, soulignant que le Royaume s'est fondé dans ce processus sur le respect des principes du droit international et de la légalité internationale.

Le président de la Chambre des représentants a rappelé le contexte géopolitique ayant été à l'origine de ce conflit artificiel et les développements que connaît la question du sahara marocain, mettant l'accent sur les initiatives entreprises par le Maroc pour mettre un terme à ce conflit artificiel, citant dans ce sens la proposition d'autonomie des provinces du sud dans le cadre de la souveraineté du Maroc.

M. Radi a indiqué que les économies des deux pays offrent des opportunités prometteuses pour une coopération au bénéfice des deux pays, appelant à la création d'une commission mixte de coopération qui définira les domaines de coopération, ses mécanismes et son cadre général.

Le choix démocratique, le climat de liberté, la diversité culturelle et les valeurs de tolérance partagés par les deux pays constituent un levier pour atteindre cet objectif qui est en phase avec la coopération sud-sud particulièrement à l'ère de la mondialisation.

Dans une déclaration à la presse, à l'issue de cette rencontre, M. Radi a indiqué que cette rencontre entre dans le cadre de la stratégie de la diplomatie parlementaire marocaine visant le renforcement et l', intensification des relations avec l'ensemble des pays membre de l'ONU.

Il a souligné que ses entretiens avec M. Somohardjo ont porté sur les relations entre les deux parlements, la coopération économique, sociale et culturelle entre les deux pays.

Source : MAP

Redalinho

February 3rd, 2007, 01:30 AM

Redalinho

February 3rd, 2007, 01:30 AM

Redalinho

February 3rd, 2007, 01:35 AM

Sahara issue: Surinam to reconsider its stance, MP

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39609000/gif/_39609905_surinam_map203.gif

Rabat, Feb. 2 - The information collected by the Surinam delegation about the Sahara issue will constitute a platform for the government to reconsider its stance and recognize only the people that are democratically represented, said, here Friday, Speaker of Surinam's national assembly, Paul Slamet Somohardjo.

Speaking at a meeting with Speaker of the House of Advisors Mustapha Oukacha, Somohardjo said his country's stance on the Sahara issue was taken by the regime that carried the 1980 coup d’état and which enjoyed the support of the Eastern bloc.

Oukacha, on his part, said this visit will give new impetus to Moroccan-Surinam relations especially after a period of disagreement due to Surinam's old regime's recognition of "polisario", without knowing the reality of this issue".

Morocco, he said, needs "the support of its friends in Surinam to implement the autonomy project that the Kingdom intends to implement in the southern provinces," as part of its efforts to put an end to the three-decade long dispute with the Algerian-backed separatist movement "Polisario" that claims independence of the Sahara. The former Spanish colony was retrieved by the North African country in 1975 under the Madrid Accords signed with Spain and Mauritania.

The two parties also seized this opportunity to underline the importance of this visit, which represents a prelude to parliamentary cooperation between the two countries and an occasion to consolidate the bonds between the two people and their representatives within the legislative institutions.

Redalinho

February 3rd, 2007, 01:35 AM

Redalinho

February 3rd, 2007, 01:35 AM

Redalinho

February 4th, 2007, 01:14 PM

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/7378/eeewf1.png

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2498/saharalt0.png

Redalinho

February 4th, 2007, 01:14 PM

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/7378/eeewf1.png

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2498/saharalt0.png

Redalinho

February 4th, 2007, 01:14 PM

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/7378/eeewf1.png

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/2498/saharalt0.png

karim aboussir

February 4th, 2007, 06:15 PM

is venezuala north korea cuba anti morrocan ?
are they ennemies ? no relationships ?
let me know thanks

karim aboussir

February 4th, 2007, 06:15 PM

is venezuala north korea cuba anti morrocan ?
are they ennemies ? no relationships ?
let me know thanks

karim aboussir

February 4th, 2007, 06:15 PM

is venezuala north korea cuba anti morrocan ?
are they ennemies ? no relationships ?
let me know thanks

Redalinho

February 4th, 2007, 06:39 PM

Well Morocco has some cold diplomatic relations with Venezuela, but not with Cuba and North Korea

Redalinho

February 4th, 2007, 06:39 PM

Well Morocco has some cold diplomatic relations with Venezuela, but not with Cuba and North Korea

Redalinho

February 4th, 2007, 06:39 PM

Well Morocco has some cold diplomatic relations with Venezuela, but not with Cuba and North Korea

Redalinho

February 5th, 2007, 11:34 AM

Le projet d’autonomie se met en marche

Le président français Jacques Chirac recevra ce lundi matin à Paris une délégation marocaine conduite par le ministre de l'Intérieur, Chakib Benmoussa, qui va lui présenter le projet de proposition d'autonomie pour les provinces sahariennes.

Paris constitue la première étape d’une tournée qu’effectueront des délégations marocaines dans plusieurs capitales des pays membres du Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies en vue de les informer sur l’état d’avancement du processus d'élaboration de l'avant-projet de la proposition de doter les provinces du sud d'une autonomie, dans le cadre de la souveraineté du Royaume, de son unité nationale et de son intégrité territoriale.
Ces délégations vont ainsi présenter à la communauté internationale, avec ses instances et ses organisations, ce projet qui constitue la solution politique définitive et équitable pour un conflit artificiellement entretenu par les ennemis de l’intégrité territoriale du Maroc. Un projet qui intervient en réponse aux attentes de la communauté internationale, qui souhaite que des propositions constructives soient présentées pour sortir ce dossier de l'impasse où il se trouve. L’objectif escompté est de parvenir à une solution politique négociée et définitive qui ouvrirait de plus larges perspectives pour l'édification d'un Maghreb arabe fort, reposant sur des bases saines. Il s'inscrit également au cœur des orientations et directives royales visant à consacrer le choix de la décentralisation et de la déconcentration, et à consolider les fondements de la régionalisation élargie.
En avant-première de ce périple dans plusieurs capitales mondiales et en application des Hautes instructions royales, des réunions se sont tenues au Cabinet royal, les 31 janvier, 1er et 2 février 2007, avec les chefs des instances constitutionnelles et des partis politiques, en vue de les informer de l'état d'avancement du processus d'élaboration du projet de proposition d'autonomie pour les provinces sahariennes.
Au cours de ces réunions, les partis politiques nationaux ainsi que le président du Conseil royal consultatif pour les affaires sahariennes (Corcas), son secrétaire général, les membres de son bureau et les présidents de ses commissions permanentes, ont été informés des grandes lignes de ce projet qui tient compte des suggestions pertinentes des partis et des intérêts supérieurs de la nation et des spécificités socioculturelles de la région. Une proposition courageuse qui respecte les normes et standards internationaux en matière d'autonomie devant permettre aux habitants du Sahara marocain de gérer démocratiquement leurs affaires locales, par le biais d'institutions représentatives et exécutives régionales élues.
Les leaders politiques et les responsables du Corcas se sont déclarés fermement attachés aux constantes sacrées de la nation, à savoir l'unité nationale et l'intégrité territoriale, et le respect de la souveraineté pleine, entière et non négociable du Royaume sur la totalité de ses territoires. Dans le même ordre d’idées, ils ont souligné que l'adhésion, à la proposition d'autonomie, de toutes les composantes du peuple marocain, notamment les tribus des provinces du sud et l'ensemble des populations de la région, s'apparente à un exercice d'autodétermination dans son acception suprême, combinant unité, démocratie et progrès. Ils ont également réitéré leur détermination à poursuivre leur action en vue de rallier davantage d'appui et de soutien à ce projet et à veiller à ce que les autres fils du Sahara, où qu'ils puissent être, y adhèrent également, au sein d'un Maroc uni, leur offrant les conditions requises pour une citoyenneté pleine et entière, et pour une vie dans la dignité.

http://www.aujourdhui.ma/couverture-details52091.html

Redalinho

February 5th, 2007, 11:34 AM

Redalinho

February 5th, 2007, 11:34 AM

nwusaad

February 7th, 2007, 07:32 AM

I think that we could clarify the lexicon when it comes to the various victories that can be heard/read online. That a country wants a mutually acceptable political solution to the conflict does not mean that autodetermination referendums are not political solutions.
I think that very few countries go as far as declaring the Sahara as being fully Moroccan. The goal of Moroccan diplomacy is to have states NOT insist on having a referendum in the Sahara but accept an autonomy plan for the region if presented to the UN...
Whywould China who has huge interest in Algeria (oil, contracts, historical ideology...) openly support Morocco at the detriment of their economic interests in Algeria? China simply decided to become more of a neutral actor.

nwusaad

February 7th, 2007, 07:32 AM

nwusaad

February 7th, 2007, 07:32 AM

jimjohn

February 7th, 2007, 01:52 PM

jimjohn

February 7th, 2007, 01:52 PM

jimjohn

February 7th, 2007, 01:52 PM

jimjohn

February 7th, 2007, 01:56 PM

jimjohn

February 7th, 2007, 01:56 PM

jimjohn

February 7th, 2007, 01:56 PM

MoroccanBeauty

February 7th, 2007, 02:07 PM

it is only propaganda alas! it is the saharaoui people which order and not Mister Chirac!

http://flickr.com/search/?q=polisario

Polisario doesn't represent this people, it's just a terrorist group, stop dreaming or you'll be bad in few months :lol:

MoroccanBeauty

February 7th, 2007, 02:07 PM

MoroccanBeauty

February 7th, 2007, 02:07 PM

MoroccanBeauty

February 7th, 2007, 09:03 PM

La "Guerre" de Tifariti aura lieu : La marche de la société civile contre le polisario

http://www.lagazettedumaroc.com/articles.php?r=2&sr=852&n=510&id_artl=12476

Les «mauvais élèves doivent retourner à l’école», aimait à répéter le célèbre Général Giap vainqueur de la bataille épique de Dien Bien Phu si bien que «l’impérialisme algéro-séparatiste» s’est révélé un cancre de la classe. Mais la mise en garde de la société civile sahraouie marocaine vaut son pesant d’avertissement à prendre au sérieux : si le polisario s’entête à maintenir ses festivités de la fantoche RASD, ce mois-ci sur la terre marocaine de Tifariti, les Marocains en masse l’en empêcheraient quelles que soient les conséquences.

La déconvenue de l’année dernière n’aura pas servi à dissuader les expansionnistes algéro-séparatistes à abandonner leur belliqueux projet de piétiner un territoire marocain, commune rurale dans le registre des collectivités locales du Royaume, pour y commémorer l’anniversaire de la création de la république fantoche «rasd». Mais ce coup-ci, ce sont les familles de nos disparus, les veuves de nos martyrs assassinés par la bande de mercenaires de Abdelaziz El Marrakchi, les anciens prisonniers de Tindouf et tout ce que compte comme patriotes actifs de la société civile marocaine et sahraouie, qui déclencheront la seconde grande marche verte de l’histoire de la décolonisation en direction de nos contrées spoliées. Plus exactement, le mouvement s’ébranlera le 24 février à destination de Tifariti dans le but de faire échec à la forfaiture polisarienne programmée pour le 27 février. Et nos «marcheurs» ont mis en garde quiconque tentera d’entraver ou d’empêcher leur marche parce qu’ils sont déterminés à aller jusqu’au bout de leur sacrifice. «Même si l’armée veut s’interposer, nous ne ferons pas marche arrière. Nous irons jusqu’au bout car nous avons beaucoup de comptes en suspens avec ces assassins de nos soldats disparus ou assassinés», s’écrient les veuves éplorées. Si les réactions officielles dans le Royaume se limitent à des communiqués laconiques de dénonciation sans effet agissant ou dissuasif sur les ennemis de notre nation, les ONG militantes sahraouies à l’image de l’association patriote animée par Brahim Hajjam, envisagent sérieusement d’agir et de réagir pour démasquer les vils desseins des adversaires de l’intégrité territoriale du Maroc.
Il faudra beaucoup de temps pour que se cicatrisent les cicatrices profondes et se referment les blessures vives de nos sahraouis marocains dont les parents et membres de leurs familles ont subi la torture dans les geôles de Lahmada et essuyé toutes les humiliations et cruautés que l’humanité n’a plu vécues depuis des décennies.

Une organisation «terroriste et mafieuse»
À telle enseigne que les braves soldats marocains détenus à Tindouf ont fini par battre le triste record des «plus vieux prisonniers de guerre du monde». Un acte de lâcheté perpétré par les bourreaux sécessionnistes qui ont dû se rendre, face à l’ampleur de la contestation de la société civile et des chancelleries démocratiques de ce monde, aux conditions de la pax americana pour libérer les 400 derniers soldats marocains prisonniers dans les camps de l’horreur. La contestation anti-polisarienne, qui gagne du terrain dans les milieux démocratiques de la planète, s’est vite muée en initiatives collectives de campagnes générales de dénonciations des crimes des mercenaires d’Abdelaziz en proie à des défections dans les rangs du polisario et des scissions qui affaiblissent son organisation «terroriste et mafieuse» qui a plongé dans les combines de détournement des aides internationales à titre humanitaire par les dirigeants corrompus à la solde du traître Mohamed Abdelaziz et qui s’est acoquiné avec des groupuscules terroristes aux fins de trafic d’armes et d’alliances diaboliques servant de noirs desseins.
Des actions sont en cours auprès des instances mondiales compétentes et de la Cour pénale internationale pour confondre les criminels séparatistes et démasquer, aux yeux du monde entier, l’ampleur de leurs forfaits et leur refus du droit international et de toutes les conventions en vigueur. Peine leur en prend, car nos
Marocains sahraouis sont bien résolus à leur faire avaler la poussière sur le terrain même des «hostilités» où les sécessionnistes comptent perpétuer leur politique du fait accompli. Et qu’ils sachent bien que toutes pressions supposées pour annuler la marche vers Tifariti sont vouées à l’échec car le scénario du gel d’une initiative semblable précédemment, à la demande des Américains, ne risque pas de se reproduire. Il faut bien que les séparatistes et leurs protecteurs de la junte militaro-fasciste algérienne retiennent, enfin, la leçon une bonne fois pour toutes : le Maroc, de Tanger à Lagouira, est chez lui dans son Sahara et pas un grain de sable de ses territoires du grand Sud ne sera aliéné à la mère patrie. Trente millions de Marocains en ont fait le serment solennel, suivant l’exemple de leur Roi pour que pas un seul pouce du Sahara marocain ne soit cédé, quoiqu’il nous en coûte. Mais le Maroc reste ouvert aux négociations à la recherche d’une solution politique pour le règlement définitif du conflit sur la seule base du plan d’autonomie des provinces du Sud dans le cadre de la souveraineté nationale et de l’intégrité territoriale du Royaume. Pourtant, nos adversaires auraient dû le comprendre après la déroute algérienne aux travaux de la 4ème Commission de l’ONU, chargée des questions de décolonisation à l’issue desquelles la majorité des Etats membres ont refusé ou se sont abstenus de voter en faveur de la résolution sur le Sahara marocain que nos voisins de l’Est voulaient imposer.
En tout cas, le Maroc est bien avancé dans l’élaboration du projet d’autonomie régionale dont le Souverain vient d’ordonner de larges consultations démocratiques impliquant tous les acteurs de la société, partis politiques, CORCAS, gouvernement, société civile, représentants des populations locales de nos territoires du Sud… Le véritable enjeu dans cette démarche nationale est de faire triompher le processus démocratique dans le Royaume en réalisant une décentralisation élargie de ses provinces sahariennes. Ce que nos ennemis sont incapables de faire…

MoroccanBeauty

February 7th, 2007, 09:03 PM

MoroccanBeauty

February 7th, 2007, 09:03 PM