New York, July 19, 2011 (SPS) - Polisario Front has called on Morocco to respect its international commitments on the question of Western Sahara and to stop ''the strategy of fait accompli.''
Rome, July 19, 2011 (SPS) - The mayor of Naples Luigi De Magistris, newly elected head of the municipality, asserted that he supported the struggle of the Saharawi people to self-determination, indicated Tuesday the Sahrawi diplomatic representative in Italy, Omar Mih.
Alicante (Spain) July 19, 2011 (SPS) - The Spanish University of Alicante organized Monday a training course designed to promote debate on the evolution of the situation in Western Sahara and the position taken by Spain in order to contribute in finding a solution to the problem which lasted for decades.
Juba, July 19, 2011 (SPS) - Newly independent South Sudan released its own currency today to banks in the capital, Juba, said Aggrey Tisa, undersecretary for planning in the Ministry of Finance.
It may take as long as two months before the South Sudan pound replaces the old currency the nation shared with Sudan before it gained independence on July 9, Tisa said in an interview. Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir announced on July 12 that his government decided also to print a new currency.
Tripoli, July 19, 2011(SPS )- US officials have met face-to-face with of Muammar Gaddafi's representatives - but the two sides disagree about what they discussed.
Libyan government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim told reporters in Tripoli the talks had been held on Saturday.
He refused to say exactly where they happened or which officials were involved, but said they had involved ways to repair ties between Tripoli and Washington.
The Americans said the reason for the meeting was to insist that Col Gaddafi leaves power.
Berlin, July 18, 2011 (SPS) - In a letter to the German minister of foreign affair, the German youth group “project of Western Sahara” has called on the government of its country to exert pressure on Morocco to respect human rights in Western Sahara and to work for extending the mandate of MINURSO to include monitoring and report about human rights violations in the Territory.
“German y that chairs the UN Security Council this month has an opportunity to carry out initiatives consolidating human and peoples’ rights,” the letter said.
Rabat (Morocco) July 18, 2011 (SPS) - Nearly 1500 Moroccan protesters gathered Sunday in the Moroccan city, Rabat, to demand political and economic reforms in response to the call of the February 20 Movement, Moroccan media and websites reported Monday.
The Moroccan security forces prevented the protesters to gather outside the parliament headquarters.
Gothenburg (Sweden) July 18, 2011 (SPS) - Saharawi soccer team of youth arrived Sunday to the city of Gothenburg, Sweden, to participate in the International Youth Soccer Tournament (Gothia Cup), which annually organizes in Sweden, according to the Polisario Front representation in Sweden.
The Sahrawi football team, which is composed of 17 children and three adults, will play its first match in the Tournament against Norway team.
Barcelona, July 18, 2011 (SPS) - The activities of the study days on the struggle of the Saharawi woman held at the University of Barcelona shut down Saturday with the participation of Saharawi delegation led by Ms. Kahdija Hamdi, minister of culture in the Saharawi Republic.
The study days marked by the organization of a number of conferences for exchanging woman’s experiences, where Ms. Khadija Hamdi gave a lecture about the experience of the Saharawi woman in the political field.
Bir Lehlou (liberated territories) July 17, 2011 (SPS) - “The independence of South Sudan is another victory for the just struggle of peoples to self-determination,” the President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, has confirmed in a letter sent to Mr. Silva Kiir Myardit, president of the Republic of South Sudan.
Khartoum, July 16, 2011 (SPS) - Sudan's central bank said on Saturday it would begin circulating a new currency this month after South Sudan said it planned to create a currency of its own.
South Sudan, which declared independence on July 9 under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war, said on Monday it would begin circulating its previously announced South Sudan pound in the coming week, pegging it one-to-one with Sudan's existing pound .
United Nations (New York), July 16, 2011 (SPS) - The next round of preliminary negotiations between the Frente Polisario and Morocco, scheduled for 19 to 21 July, will discuss the issue of the electoral corps and mechanisms for self-determination,” according to the announcement issued Thursday by the UN.
“During the upcoming talks, the parties will, as previously agreed, further deepen their discussion of their respective proposals on a settlement, including the issue of the electoral corps and mechanisms for self-determination,” the statement asserted.
Boumerdes (Algeria) July 16, 2011 (SPS) - A group of French activists have decided to organized a gathering of solidarity with the Saharawi people outside the European Parliament on November to protest the European position towards the Saharawi cause, as confirmed Wednesday in Boumerdes by Mohamed Benchabane, from the Association of Solidarity with the Saharawi people in Lorraine, France.
United Nation, July 16, 2011 (SPS) - South Sudan became the newest member of the United Nations, as it was welcomed into the world's top club amid pledges to help one of the planet's poorest states take its first steps.
"I declare South Sudan a member of the United Nations," said Joseph Deiss, president of the UN General Assembly, after a vote by acclamation admitted the country as the UN's 193rd member.
"Welcome, South Sudan. Welcome to the community of nations," added UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
Boumerdes (Algeria) July 16, 2011 (SPS) - French elected denounced Thursday the position of France towards the Saharawi cause and the use of its veto at the UN Security Council to obstruct the holding of a referendum on self-determination for the Sahrawi people.
Shaheed El Hafed (refugee camps) July 15, 2011 (SPS) - Polisario Front considered the Republic of South Sudan recognition of the Saharawi Republic as a "historic decision", in statement concluded meeting of the National Secretariat (SN) of the Polisario Front, held Thursday under the chairmanship of the Secretary General, the President of the Republic, Mohamed Abdelaziz.
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps) July 15, 2011 (SPS) - Polisario Front renewed Friday its readiness to cooperate with the UN secretary general and his personal envoy, Christopher Ross, to accelerate the decolonization in Western Sahara and enable the Saharawis of their inalienable right of self-determination and independence, according to statement concluded meeting of the National Secretariat.
Buenos Aires, 13/07/2011 (SPS) .- Deputies Cecilia Merchán, Gerardo Milman and Fabio Basteiro agreed Tuesday in Buenos Aires, to encourage the creation of a Parliamentary Friendship Group and work for the recognition of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
The deputies held a press conference in the Salon Cabezas, attended by the Ambassador of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Salme Bachir, alongside with diplomats and human rights organizations.
Washington, July 14, 2011 (SPS) - The eighth informal meeting between the Polisario Front and Morocco will take place on 20 and 21 July in Manhasset (near New York), Polisario Front’s representative to the United Nations Ahmed Boukhari told APS Wednesday.
This meeting will take place more than a month after the previous informal round, under the auspices of the Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, in the presence of delegations from both parties and representatives of the two observer countries, Algeria and Mauritania.
Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), July 14, 2011 (SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem OuldSalek, felicitated the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bahamas, Theodore Brent Symonette, on occasion ofthe38th Anniversary of the Independence of his country, in a letter a copy of it received by SPS on Wednesday.
“It gives me great an immense pleasure to convey to you our greetings and felicitations on the occasion of the 38th Anniversary of the Independence of The Bahamas,” said OuldSalek in his letter.