Shahid el Hafed, 9 Nov 2015 (SPS) -President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, regretted that the international community is not assuming its responsibilities towards the Western Sahara issue "at a time when patience of the Saharawi people is exhausted."
"The international community is not meeting its responsibilities at a time when the patience of the Saharawi people is exhausted (...)", said President Mohamed Abdelaziz in an interview Saturday with the Spanish newspaper "La Vanguardia."
He recalled that the UN had agreed in 1991 to hold a referendum. After 24 years, Morocco still refuses the implementation of the peace plan it signed with the Polisario Front, "maintains repression in the territory and plunders the Saharawi natural resources."
Mohamed Abdelaziz, therefore, stressed that "the Polisario Front does not rule out the resumption of the armed struggle suspended in 1991 due to a cease-fire between the parties to the conflict leading to a referendum for self-determination of the Saharawi people."
"The youth especially are eager to resume" the armed struggle, said Mohamed Abdelaziz, adding that the return to armed struggle is one of the options to be discussed at the next congress of the Polisario Front, which will be held as from the third week of December in the province of Dakhla (Saharawi refugee camps).
As for legal responsibility of Spain, as the administering power of Western Sahara, he said "if Spain defends and supports the 1991 peace plan and the referendum for self-determination, it will fulfil its historical responsibilities towards Western Sahara."
President Mohamed Abdelaziz also claimed that the Saharawi people "continue with determination and confidence its struggle for victory," noting that "Morocco is mistaken if it considers that time is advantageous for it." (SPS)
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