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30.08.97
Moroccan declaration
Mr A. Filali, the Moroccan prime minister and minister of foreign
affairs and cooperation, stressed in Lisbon, at the end of the new
round of direct contacts, that Morocco presented its position in a
firm manner, but with a spirit of openness and constructive dialogue.
He pointed out that Morocco was taking part in these contacts with a
spirit characterized by openness and optimism. He said that Morocco
hoped that an agreement would be reached in the forthcoming round, on
the main points connected with the final solution, represented by the
holding of the referendum, which Mr Filali says is an affirmative
referendum on the Moroccan nature of Western Sahara even before
Spanish colonialism; it is Moroccan today and will forever remain so,
which is an irrevocable situation.
03.09.97
Morocco - Polisario negociations
A new round of U.N.-sponsored negotiations on the problem of Western
Sahara will be held in The Baker Institute at Rice University,
Houston (Texas), from Sept. 14 to 16.
03.09.97
Algerian declaration
Algeria's president of parliament Abdelkader Bin Saleh declared in
the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram that Algeria is not involved in the
Western Sahara conflict. He thinks that it is a problem between
Morocco and the SADR and that it will be resolved by the
implementation of the UN resolutons and the recognition of the right
of selfdetermination of the Sahrawi people.
05.09.97
Recognition retired
In the frame of the visit of an official delegation in Morocco, Monie
Captan, the Liberian Foreign Affairs minister, announces at Rabat
that Liberia will take back its recognition of the SADR.
Diplomacy
Mrs Senia Achmed, former Secretary-General of the National Union of
Saharawi Women (NUSW), was elected as Secretary of Socio-economic
Affairs at the General-Secretary of the Panafrican Organisation of
Women at its 8th congress. A delegation of the NUSW visited
Madagascar and took meetings with several political and governmental
organizations.
The Sahrawi Minister of Foreign Affairs participated on August 6 to
the national commemorations in Bolivia. On August 12 he held talks
with the Venezuelian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Solidarity
The presence of Sahrawi children on summer holidays in Italy and
Spain was the occasion for several solidarity manifestations in many
cities.
NEWS FROM THE REFUGEE CAMPS AND THE LIBERATED TERRITORIES OF
THE SADR
A road accident occuring on 5.8.97 between Tindouf and the refuge
camps caused one dead and several injured persons, all members of the
Saharawi Ministery of Information.
A delegation of the University of Girona, Spain, visited at the
beginning of August the refugee camps in order to sign an agreement
on an education project.
A young Saharawi Sidi Mohamed Ahmednah Hamma reached the liberated territories of the SADR on August 10 after he fled from the occupied part of W.S.
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