Madrid, June 30, 2012 (SPS) - The next edition of the International Art Encounters in the Western Sahara Liberated Territories, known as ARTifariti, presented Friday at Sofía’s Queen Museum in Madrid, in the presence of Spanish intellectuals and interested in culture and art.
Madrid, June 29, 2012 (SPS) - President of the Spanish Association of Human Rights, Mr. José Antonio Gimbernat, has launched along with organization, intellectuals and university professors a campaign to aware about the historic responsibility of Spain in Western Sahara.
Mr. Gimbernat made contacts on Wednesday and Thursday with all Spanish political parties representing to the parliament. In addition, he sent a written letters to a number of Spanish figures, including the President of the Government Mr. Mariano Rajoy.
New York, June 29, 2012 (SPS) - The United Nations General Assembly has approved a budget of US$60.8 million to finance the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, known as MINURSO, for the period from 1 July 2012 to 30 June 2013.
The budget includes US$58.2 million for the maintenance of MINURSO and US$2.4 million for the support account for peacekeeping operations, and US$131,700 dollars for the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, in Italy.
Rabat, June 29, 2012 (SPS) - The court of Moroccan occupation delayed Thursday, for the third consecutive time, trail of the Saharawi students incarcerated in the Moroccan prison of Salé since 16 April 2011 to forthcoming July 12, informed Saharawi human rights sources.
The students are Brahim Shleih, Lehbib Mansour, Ahmed Ayoub, Mohamed Barak, Slima Masaa and Abeilil Said.
Headquarters of the court was surrounded by various security agencies and intelligence agents.
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), June 29, 2012 (SPS) - The seventh congress of the Saharawi Workers Union (UGTSARIO) will be held from 21 to 23 October 2012 in February 27th School under the motto: “resistance, steadfastness and development”, bearing the name of the Saharawi martyr Said Sid Ahmed Dambar, according to a statement concluded the first meeting of its preparatory committee on Thursday.
Midrand (South Africa) June28,2012(SPS) the president of South Africa and ANC President Jacob Zuma, Tuesday, reiterated South African position in supporting a solution to the Saharawi conflict which allowing the Saharawi people to practice their inalienable right to self-determination
Shaheed El Hafed ( Refugee Camps), June 27, 2012 (SPS) - 31 Saharawi NGOs represent the civil society called on the EU to respect international law by excluding the occupied territories from any future trade agreement with Morocco.
“In all future trade deals between the EU and Morocco, we would urge that the territory of Western Sahara is clearly and explicitly excluded.”, wrote the 31 NGOs In their letter to European Commissioner for Trade, Karel De Gucht dated 26 June 2012, the 31 NGOs
Dar es Salaam, June 26, 2012 (SPS) – the president of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Monday, concluded a two-day official visit to the United Republic of Tanzania at invitation of the President of Tanzania, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete.
The president was seen off At the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere International Airport, by his host, President Kikwete, Honourable Ministers and other senior Government officials of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Dar es Salaam, June 26, 2012 (SPS) –the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and the United Republic of Tanzania, Monday, called upon, the AU, the UN and the international community, as a whole, to take their responsibilities in ensuring that a peaceful resolution to the conflict is found sooner and not later, In a joint communiqué issued at the end of the official visit by the President of the Republic Mohamed Abdelaziz to Tanzania.
Dar es Salaam, June 26, 2012 (SPS) – President of the united Republic of Tanzania, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, Monday, said that “Tanzania’s position on the issue of Western Sahara’s independence is a matter of principle.”
Shaheed Al Hafed (refugee camps), June 25, 2012 (SPS) - A workshop on Western Sahara natural resources presented Monday morning at headquarters of the Saharawi Workers Union (UGSARIO), Saharawi refugee camps, by Erik Hagen from Western Sahara Resource Watch and Director of the Norwegian Support Commitee for Western Sahara, in collaboration with the Saharawi Students Union (UESARIO).
Dar es Salaam, June 25, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, called Monday on the President of the Federal Republic of Tanzania, Mr.
Istanbul, June 25, 2012 (SPS) - Member of the POLISARIO National Secretariat and Secretary General of the Saharawi Woman Union, Ms. Farma Mehdi, asked Sunday the Socialist International to dispatch a fact-finding mission to the occupied territories of Western Sahara and Saharawi refugee camps in order to view suffering experienced by the Saharawi women, in an intervention at a meeting held in Istanbul, Turkey.
Bir Lehlou (liberated territories), June 25, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, has congratulated the president-elect of Egypt, Dr. Mohamed Morsi, on his election as a new president of the Arab Republic of Egypt, considering that “a hallmark in the present and future of Egypt and its Arabic, Islamic and African existence and a preface for a new era in the region.”
Copenhagen, June 25, 2012 (SPS) - The president of the Danish Organization “Afrika kontakt”, Mrs.Signe Borker Bjerre, has drew attention of the European Committee in the Danish Parliament regarding the human rights violation committed by Morocco in occupied Western Sahara, in a letter sent on 21 June 2012.
Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), June 24, 2012 (SPS) - The President of the Republic and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mr. Mohamed Abdelaziz, arrived Sunday in Dar es Salaam, capital of the Federal Republic of Tanzania, in a two-day official visit at the invitatiof his counterpart, the President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), June 24, 2012 (SPS) - A Brazilian Committee of Support to Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic have established Saturday at the headquarters of the Brazilian Workers Union, in the presence of Mr. Hamdi Bueha, Ambassador in Mission to Brazil, and Karim Lagdef, from Saharawi Foreign Ministry, who took part at the People’s Summit held in parallel with Rio+20 UN Conference in Rio de Janeiro, informed source of the Saharawi delegation.
United Nation, June 24, 2012 (SPS) - The Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, reiterated Friday confidence on his Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Ambassador Christopher Ross, according to the Spanish News Agency (EFE).
El Aaiun (occupied territories), June 23, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi masse of occupied El Aaiun have organized a reception on honour of the Saharawi political prisoner Sarir Abd Al-Mutaleb, who released after a month of detention in Black Prison on charges of assaulting a security officer, as informed a source of the Ministry of Occupied Territories and Communities Abroad.
Moroccan forces of occupation have surrounded house of the released prisoner family’s house since Friday, where the reception took place.
Brazil, June 23, 2012 (SPS) - Saharawi delegation has participated at the works and workshops of People’s Summit that took place 20-22 June in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in parallel to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), being held after 20 years of first Earth Summit in 1992 at the same city.
The Saharawi delegation included, Mr. Hamdi Abaiha, Ambassador in mission in Brazil and Mr. Karim Lagdef, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.