POLISARIO SAY, "FORGET ABOUT IT"
The Polisario Front fighting to end Moroccan rule over the occupied Western
Sahara on Monday rejected the latest United Nations proposal for a
settlement of the conflict. The Sahrawi guerrilla movement said the plan
presented last week by UN special envoy for the Western Sahara James Baker
offered nothing new. The Polisario described Baker�s proposal as "just
another repetition of his Framework Agreement," which outlines Western
Sahara as an autonomous Moroccan province. The Polisario said it is, "�the
same framework plan that was already rejected by all the parties to the
conflict except Morocco and which the Security Council had already refused
to accept." Emhamed Khadad, Polisario�s coordinator with the UN, said that
"any proposal that does not take into account the inalienable rights of the
Sahrawi people to self-determination will not have our approval."
Baker has been surprisingly persistent in proposing a pro-Moroccan solution
to the conflict, given the continuous resistance of his employers, the UN.
The ex-US Secretary of State has been seen defending US interests in the
region. Morocco is one of the US' closest allies in Northern Africa.
Further, US oil companies are involved in the search of oil off the Sahara
coast, contracted by the Moroccan government. Baker himself is known to
have close ties to Kerr McGee, the US oil company given rights to exploit
possible Sahrawi offshore oil. In addition, the Bush administration is in a
hurry to begin the drilling off of Western Sahara.
The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) was declared by Polisario in
1976 and has its seat of government in Tindouf. The SADR was admitted in
1982 to the Organization of African Unity, leading Morocco to withdraw from
the pan-African body, which last year was formally transformed into the
African Union.
Sources: Albawaba, Norwegian Support Committee for Western Sahara,
Financial Times, Afrol News
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Morocco must be banned from sport.
by profrv@(nospam)fuckmicrosoft.com
Yet another insufferable absolute monarchy,(is there any other kind? search
on keyword throneout.)The state of Morocco is guilty of aggression in the
Western Sahara.
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