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original french
Resolution of the Security Council
S/RES/1301 (2000)
Commentaries and analyses (continuation):
7. Abraham Serfaty: La 3ème Voie. (français + traducción en castellano + english abstract)
8. Carlos Ruiz Miguel: La resolución 1301 (2000) del Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas contiene ciertas ambigüedades...
08-09.06.00
Conference of twin towns and towns of solidarity with the Saharawi
people
Representatives of over 130 Spanish municipalities, twinned with
Saharawi localities in the refugee camps, met in Barcelona. In the
final resolution participants considered that the UN/OAU settlement
plan provides a unique historic opportunity for a just and definitive
solution to the conflict. With a view to demanding the holding of the
referendum, a certain number of direct actions have been devised for
the coming months. (final resolution in Spanish).
As part of these days, a meal of solidarity brought together a
thousand people. Meanwhile, the campaign «Un minuto de
vergüenza», (a minute of shame) with citizens meeting every
Tuesday in front of town halls covering their eyes with their hands
in response to Spain's policy on Western Sahara, is continuing and
extending now to 43 municipalities. Information update: Payasos sin
Fronteras.
11.06.00
Syria
The Saharawi presidency decreed national mourning of seven days
following the passing of the Syrian president, Hafedh el-Hassad.
Mohamed Lamine ould Ahmed, counsellor to the Presidency, represented
SADR at the funeral. Syria recognised SADR in 1980, and welcomes a
Saharawi representation and supports the training of Saharawi
university administrators (SPS).
12-13.06.00
Diplomacy
First official visit of the Moroccan Prime Minister to Mauritania.
Eight agreements of cooperation in various areas such as fishing,
communications and administration were signed.
13.06.00
Occupied Territories
The Polisario Front protested strongly at the visit to El Ayoun on 4
June of the General Secretary of the Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, Nayef Hawatmeh. The Polisario Front
expressed 'surprise' at this visit, interpreted as 'support' for the
Moroccan occupation (SPS).
14.06.00
Australia
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, José Ramos Horta took the
floor at a meeting organised in Sydney by the Australian Western
Sahara Association. He expressed his support for the right to
self-determination of the Saharawi people and said that Morocco
should realise that the Saharawis will never abandon their struggle
for freedom, even if the referendum is indefinitely postponed. He
added that the independence of Western Sahara could only benefit
Morocco and the whole region. Finally he appealed to Morocco to avoid
a new Timor and called on the United Nations to speed the
implementation of the referendum, learning positive lessons from
their experience in East Timor (corr.).
15.06.00
UN-Referendum
Morocco and the Polisario Front have been invited by James Baker to
new negotiations in London on 28-29 June. (see also the press
release of Western Sahara
Campaign UK.
15.06.00
UN - General Assembly
The General Assembly opened an account for the financing of MINURSO
from 1 July 2000 - 30 June 2001 with a gross sum of 49 317 037
dollars, subject to the decision of the Security Council to renew the
mandate of the mission beyond 31 July 2000. The representative of
Mexico expressed concern that the UN had spent 350 million dollars in
10 years on the organisation of a referendum which has still not
taken place. The Algerian representative supported the declaration of
Mexico. (UN
news)
15.06.00
Panama
The Panamanian Parliament adopted unanimously a resolution (No 69) in
which it expressed its disappointment at the slowness of the
application of the UN Peace Plan and its anxiety at the refusal of
Morocco to accept the results of the identification. Noting that the
only way to reach a solution to the conflict remains the Plan and the
Houston Agreements, it asked the UN and the Security Council to
ensure a strict implementation of these agreements and the respect of
the results of the identification of voters. It further asked that
the mission of James Baker should take place within the framework of
the peace plan and not to open the way to other uncertain issues.
Finally the resolution calls on Morocco to respect human rights in
the occupied zones and asks MINURSO to be vigilant about violations
and to stop them (SADR
Embassy in Panama).
NEW PUBLICATIONS
[External links to newspapers
may not be valid after some days because the servers are
restarted]
English
- Amnesty International Report 2000 : Morocco and Western Sahara
- Face-to-face talks on Western Sahara to be held in London, The Asian Age, New Delhi, 17.06.00.
Français
- Lettre du Maroc, Daure-Serfaty Christine, préface d'Edwy Plenel, Stock, Paris, avril 2000, 260 p.
- Un Kennedy marocain ? Soudan François, Jeune Afrique/L'intelligent, Paris, no 2056, 06.06.00, pp. 18-21.
- Visite d'une délégation gonfrevillaise dans les camps de réfugiés et territoires libérés du Sahara Occidental, Spicq E., Le Havre Libre, 14.06.00. (texte intégral: eric.spicq@wanadoo.fr)
Deutsch
- Wehe, Gott schickt dich in die Hamada, Lustenberger Marc, Die Weltwoche, CH-Zuerich, 08.06.00, p. 11.
Castellano
- Revista de la prensa espanola de la semana: http://www.nodo50.org/fpolisario/Prensa.htm
- Sahara Occidental: la batalla del censo, Sobero Yolanda, Nación árabe, Madrid, No 40, Invierno de 2000, pp. 23-27.
- Marruecos: ¿Cambios de fondo o reajustes continuistas ? Amirah Fernandez Haizam, Barrenada Isaias, ibid., pp. 59-77.
- Gobierno de alternancia: consenso general pero estrategias propias, Ruiz Ibañez Almuneda, ibid., pp. 81-89.
- Derechos humanos: ¿Hacia una nueva etapa ? Lorenzo Vilar Manuel, ibid., pp. 105-111.
- Varias ONG piden datos sobre dos saharauis entregados a Marruecos, Diario de avisos, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 13.06.00.
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