December 2012

Shahid Alhafed, December13, 2012(SPS) President of the Republic, Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, called on the Parliaments of the European Countries to recognize the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) as the Swedish Parliament already did. 
  

In interview with the Algerian Radio on Thursday, President considered the Swedish Parliament’s decision as “an important step and a very strong message to the Moroccan government and to the entire international community,”
 

Shahid Alhafed, December13, 2012(SPS) the Secretariat of political branches of the Polisario Front has recorded satisfaction to the outcome of national action during the year2012 and the success of several stations such as    the congress of the Saharawi Workers, the political conferences, the martyr Alwali’s military competition, local cultural festivals, the seminar of dialogue between religions and others , in a press release concluded its second ordinary meeting held on Tuesday under the chairperson of Secretary General of the Polisario and President of the Republic Moh

Algiers, December13, 2012(SPS) - The Algerian-Sahrawi parliamentary committee of friendship and brotherhood has been installed Wednesday at the Algerian People’s National Assembly (Lower House of Parliament) in presence of many PMs.
 

Saida Bounab, deputy from the National Liberation Front (FLN), has been appointed as t the head of the committee.
 

London (UK) a farewell ceremony in honour of the ex-representative of the Polisario Front to the United Kingdom Lamin Baali, held on Tuesday at the headquarters of the House of Lords after finished his missions in this country, according to Saharawi representation to UK.
 

Algiers, december12, 2012(SPS) the Saharawi Ambassador to Algeria, Brahim Ghali, said Tuesday that “the Algerians demonstrations on December 11, 1960 against the  biggest  colonial power that time  will remain an inspiration to the Saharawi people who still fighting for self-determination and seeking for freedom and emancipation,”
 

Shahid AlHafed, December 11, 2012 (SPS) President of the Republic , Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz, said Monday that "efforts should lead to the usual presence of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in the United Nations, "in an interview broadcasted  on Tuesday  by the Algerian channel Echourouq.
 

Algiers ,December11,2012(SPS) - Feature film Wilaya, by Spanish director Pedro Perez Rosado, co-produced by Spain and the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), was screened Sunday in Algiers.
 

Competing in the fiction feature film section at the International Film Festival of Algiers (FICA), the production filmed in the Sahrawi refugee camps of Tindouf (Algeria’s southwest) is the first fiction to involve the Sahrawi ministry of Culture as co-producer.
 

Bir lehlu ( liberated territories) December11,2012(SPS) president of the Republic , Secretary General of the Polisario Front , Mohamed Abdelaziz, on Monday has congratulated , Mr. John Dramani Mahama, on his re-election as president of Ghana for second term.
 

Bir Lehlu ( liberated territories), Dec 10, 2012 (SPS) - President of Republic  and Secretary General of the Polisario Front, Mohamed Abdelaziz expressed gratitude to his counterpart of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto, for courtesy, friendship and solidarity received during his last visit to Mexico on the occasion of inauguration of President Nieto.

“Let me express my deepest gratitude for all the courtesies, friendship and solidarity that we have received, me, and the delegation that accompanied me during my stay in Mexico City”

Boujador (refugee camps), Dec 10, 2012 (SPS) - Saharawi Civil society in refugee camps celebrated today in the Wilaya of Boujador International Day of Human Rights.

 At a conference on human rights in Western Sahara organized by the Association of Families of Saharawi Prisoners and Disappeared (AFAPREDESA) and National Union of Saharawi Women (UNMS) with the participation Belgium association.

Algiers, Dec 10, 2012 (SPS) - The third international conference on “the right of peoples to resistance: the case of the Saharawi people” will be held on 15th and 16th December 2012 in Algiers, announced Sunday the Algerian National Committee of Solidarity with the Saharawi people (CNASPS).


The conference will be attended by Algerian and international figures, as well as Saharawi activists of human rights from the occupied Saharawi territories and observers accompanying the rights delegation, indicated the source.

Sale (Morocco), Dec 9, 2012 (SPS) - The Saharawi political prisons, currently incarcerated in Morocco’s prison of Sale 2, appealed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to open “an independent investigation” to the Moroccan forces’ attack on Gdeim Izik protest camp on November 2010, in a letter marking the 64th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

London, Dec 9, 2012 (SPS) - Western Sahara Resource Watch appealed Saturday to the French corporation TOTAL to reconsider signing a contract with Morocco involving oil exploration activities in the occupied Saharawi territories.


In a letter sent to TOTAL, Western Sahara Resource Watch Chair Mr. Erik Hagen voiced “high concern” over the renewal of TOTAL’s exploration licence in occupied Western Sahara.

Al-Aiun (occupied territories), Dec 08, 2012 (SPS) -Coordination of Gdeim Izik has informed US media delegation of the cruel conditions living by the Saharawis in occupied territories, politically, socially and economically.

The US media delegation comprises representatives of International Women's Media Foundation and journalists from US channels, have heard the testimonies about the gross human rights violations perpetrated by Moroccan authorities of occupation  in occupied Western Sahara.

Paris, Dec 08, 2012 (SPS) -Several associations, trade unions and French political parties, denounced Friday the contract signed by the company Total and Morocco for oil exploration in the occupied territories of Western Sahara.

In a statement, associations, trade unions and political parties asked French Total “to reconsider immediately its presence in this territory."

They also recalled the situation colony of Western Sahara by Morocco partially occupied militarily for 37 years.

Shahid Alhafed, Dicember07, 2012(SPS) the government of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, on Wednesday, asked the French Company (Total) to stay away from any exploitation in the occupied Western Sahara without the approval of [the Saharawi] government, as explained in a letter sent by Mhamed Khadad , member of the Polisario leadership and advisor to the SADR President Mohamed Abdelaziz  , to Total's Chief Executive Officer, Christophe de Margerie.   
 

Shahid Alhafed, December 06, 2012 (SPS) the government has praised the decision of the Swedish Parliament adopted on Wednesday demanding the Swedish government to urgently recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) , in a statement stated by  the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 

Stockholm (Sweden) Dicember06, 2012(SPS) the parliament of Sweden has urged its government to urgently recognize the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), in a resolution adopted on Wednesday by the Majority of this Swedish legislative institution.

The parliament has adopted this resolution which offered by the Committee of Foreign affairs and the Parliament devoted a special meeting to study and adopt this resolution.

Stockholm (Sweden) Dicember5, 2012(SPS) a conference held in the Swedish Parliament on last Tuesday, focused on the looting of Western Sahara’s natural resources and illegal exploitation of these resources by Moroccan occupation, according to the Polisario Representation  in Sweden.   
      

The conferences was attended by politicians and representatives of several Swedish parties in addition to president of the foreign affairs committee in the Swedish Parliament, Orban Ahline .   
 

Algiers, Dicember4, 2012(SPS) the PM of Tunisia, Mr. Hamadi Jebali, Monday, confirmed that his country “supports the implementation of international legitimacy to resolve the issue of Western Sahara” according to a press release from the Algerian Parliament.
 

The Tunisian PM who is in a visit to Algeria expressed this position followed his meeting with head of the Algerian Parliament, Dr. Mohamed Larbi Ould Khélifa, held in Algiers.