December 2011

Tifariti (Liberated Territories), Dec 21, 2011(SPS) - Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek called Tuesday in Tifariti “historical” the US congress decision to make conditional the military aid to Morocco upon human rights respect.

''We praise the U.S. decision requires respect for human rights before providing any military aid to Morocco,''Ould Salek told Algerian Press Service APS on the sidelines of the 13th Congress of the Polisario.

he considered considering it ''a historic decision to make the assets of the U.S. Congress.''

Tifariti (liberated territories) Dec, 21, 2011 (SPS) - The election of the National Secretariat members of Frente Polisario commenced early morning, during the 6th day of the Polisario Front’s 13th Congress taking place in the liberated tifariti.

The official list of the candidates for the National Secretariat has reached Tuesday night 147 candidates, after adding names of the free candidates, according to a source from the election committee.

Madrid, Dec 21, 2011 (SPS) - Conservative Mariano Rajoy has been sworn in before King Juan Carlos on Tuesday to become Spain’s new prime minister.

Rajoy’s Popular Party won a landslide victory in Nov. 20 elections on promises to lift Spain out of its economic crisis.

Rajoy took the oath Wednesday in the Zarzuela Palace on Madrid’s outskirts. He is to name his Cabinet of ministers later in the day.

He replaces Socialist party leader Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who took office in 2004.

Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 21, 2011 (SPS) - The re-election of Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz as a secretary general of the Frente Polisario declared on Tuesday night to Wednesday, after he got a percentage of 96%, 1551 from numbers of the votes expressed, according to the election committee.

Tifariti (Liberated Territory), Dec 20, 2011(SPS) - UN Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Christopher Ross, plans to visit the region before April 2012, Polisario Front representative to the UN, Boukhari Ahmed underlined Tuesday in Liberated Territory of Tifariti.

In statement to media on the sidelines of Polisario Front 13^th congress, Mr. Boukhari Ahmed expressed readiness of Saharawi people leadership to revive peace process in Western Sahara.

Washington, Dec 20, 2011 (SPS) - The U.S. Congress passed Tuesday an act calling on the Department of State “to require the respect of human rights in Western Sahara as a precondition for any financial and military assistance appropriated for Morocco.”

This act, which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, contains financial appropriations allocated for Foreign Military Financing Program for assistance for other countries for the year 2012.

Tifarirt (lebirated territories) Dec, 20, 2011 (SPS)- The election of the Frente Polisario’s Secretary General has launched this evening at 18:30 pm, which is also the president of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, according to the requirements of the Basic Law.

The president of the SADR, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, is considered the only candidate who presented his file to the committee of the election for the seat of the Polisario’s Secretary General.

Washington, Dec 20, 2011 (SPS) - Congress of the United States called Tuesday on the Moroccan government to open the occupied territories of Western Sahara for human rights organizations, journalists, and representatives of foreign governments.

In a communiqué on the occasion of the ratification on the “Foreign Military Financing Program” for assistance for Morocco, the Congress called on Morocco “to provide unimpeded access to human rights organizations, journalists, and representatives of foreign governments to the Western Sahara.”

Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 20, 2011 (SPS) - The Polisario 13th Congress Presidency has decided to extend works of the Congress for 48 hours, after its legal period (5 days) has been ended.

“As the Congress cames to the last day of its legal period, the presidency of the Congress, and in pursuant to the Article 63 of the Basic Law of the Polisario Front, decided to extend the Congress for 48 hours starting from midday at GMT liberated Tifariti,” Dr. Sidi Mohamed Omar, spokesman of the Congress presidency told SPS.

Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 20, 2011 (SPS) - The participants at the Polisario 13th Congress endorsed Tuesday the work presented by the election committee, which has been adopted Monday by the Congress, a source of the Congress presidency informed.

During presenting its work, the Committee’s President, Mr. Mohamed Khadad, presented a detailed overall on various issues, which took a study at the level of committee.

El Aaiun (occupied territories), Dec 20, 2011 (SPS) - The Collective of the Saharawi Human Rights Defenders (CODESA) has launched an international campaign under the title: “preventing the registration of the Saharawi names, blurring to identity and culture,” after Moroccan state recently prevented the Saharawi human right activist, Alarbi Masud, from registering his daughter’s name.

Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 20, 2011 (SPS) - The Basque Deputy from the Spanish Popular Party (PP), Mr. Carmelo Barrio Borja, considered Sunday that the Frente Polisario and Saharawi government “are making every efforts to provide the stability and safety of the foreign co-operators inside the Saharawi refugee camps,” adding “we found a climate of cooperation, security and comfort to perform our work.”

Washington DC, Dec 19, 2011 (SPS) - The Chairman of the US-Western Sahara Foundation, Suzanne Scholte, reiterated on Monday the firm commitment of her Organization to continue working in solidarity with Saharawi people until regain full sovereignty and withdrawn of illegal occupation by Morocco, in a letter to delegates at the Polisario 13th Congress.

Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 19, 2011 (SPS) - The Basque Deputy from the Spanish Popular Party (PP), Mr. Carmelo Barrio Borja, expressed Sunday the support of his Party to the application of the UN resolutions on decolonization of Western Sahara, calling for respecting the political and civil rights of the Saharawi people.

Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 19, 2011 (SPS) - Work of committee of the occupied territories and Intifada has been unanimously approved Monday evening by delegates of the Polisario 13th Congress, after interventions by members of the Saharawi activists delegation from the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

Addis Ababa, Dec 19, 2011 (SPS) - The Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic has participated at the second ordinary session of the AU Conference of Mineral Resources Ministers taking place in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Dec 12-16.

At the end of its session, the Conference adopted the declaration of Addis Ababa on building a sustainable future for the mining industry in Africa, which recognized the sovereign right of the Member States of the African Union to protect and save their natural resources from foreign looting and exploitation.

Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 19, 2011 (SPS) - The POLISARIO 13th Congress ratified Monday evening with an overwhelming majority the Constitution of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, a source of the Congress presidency informed.

Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 19, 2011 (SPS) - Delegates of the Polisario 13th Congress unanimously voted Monday morning for the election committee proposed by the Congress presidency, which will organize the election of the Secretary General and National Secretariat members.

The Committee, which includes 85 members chaired by the Coordinator with MINURSO Mohamed Khadad, will set a programme of action to be presented to the Congress for ratification.

Tifariti (liberated territories), Dec 19, 2011 (SPS) - The Thirteenth Congress of the Frente Polisario ratified Monday morning with an overwhelming majority on terms of the Front’s Basic Law, after decide on the issues of dispute, according to a source the Congress presidency.

Tifariti (liberated territory) Dec 19, 2011 (SPS) - European Deputy from the Spanish United Left Party, Mr. Willy Meyer, called Sunday from the liberated Tifariti on the EU to bear all its responsibilities towards the decolonization of Western Sahara , renewing his party’s promise to continue working until the independence and the freedom of Western Sahara.